Using your phone on the toilet could bring a very painful result

We can now add "sitting on the dunny" to the growing list of things smartphones and social media are helping to ruin.

A new study out of the US found that people who used their phone while sitting on the toilet had a significantly higher risk of developing haemorrhoids.

Cethan Ramprasad and colleagues, from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, reported that out of their survey participants, 66 per cent reported using smartphones on the toilet, and they tended to be younger than non-users.

After statistically accounting for other factors thought to possibly be linked with hemorrhoid risk – such as exercise habits, age, and fibre intake – the researchers found that participants who used a smartphone on the toilet had a 46 per cent higher risk of hemorrhoids than non-users.

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