What happens if you sit on the toilet for a long time

How long can you sit on the toilet

Although someone calls the toilet an office or a library, sitHow Often and How Long Should It Take You to Poop? / Cleveland Clinic it doesn't take more than five minutes. The longer a person pushes, the more harmful it is for his intestines.

What happens if you sit on the toilet for a long time

Prolonged and frequent overexertion in the anorectal region leadsAre you pooing properly? / Department of Health Queensland Government To hemorrhoids - varicose veins of the rectum. Serious problems he usually does not causeHemorrhoids/Cleveland Clinic (although sometimes the nodes become inflamed and infected), but it can feel really painful.

There is also a very scary scenario: from a long sitting, they can to appearM. Lustig, A. Levy, K. Kopplin, Z. Ovadia-Blechman, A. Gefen. Beware of the toilet: The risk for a deep tissue injury during toilet sitting / Journal of Tissue Viability bedsores. So called tissue necrosis due to pressure on them. Pressure sores greatly reduce the quality of life and can even be deadly. But this applies only to people with impaired microcirculation and nerve transmission, such as the elderly. Therefore, in nursing homes and geriatric wards, patients should not be left unattended in the toilet for tens of minutes.

How to help yourself speed up

To make it easier to go to the toilet, you need sit downBowel health / Department of Health Western Australia so that the knees are higher than the hips. This posture is dictated by the anatomy of the rectum and the presence of a natural curve that needs to be "unbent". To do this, you can use the footrest.

If it seemed that you needed to go to the toilet, but things weren’t going well, then it’s better to take a break and take a walk. Do not try to achieve a result by all means. It is also better not to take the phone with you to the “office”.

If the problem persists, you may be doing something not this way.