IBD and Hemorrhoids connection

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and Hemorrhoids are connected. No surprise.

Two questions remain:

1) Does one cause the other?
2) How can you cure them both?

A new study in Scientific Reports reveals some answers.

The main goal of this study was to determine whether IBD and its two common forms, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, directly lead to a higher risk of hemorrhoids or if it’s just a coincidence that they often occur together. To do that, the authors used a study method called Mendelian randomization.

Mendelian randomization may sound complicated, but it’s a clever way of understanding cause and effect in health studies. The idea is to use genetic differences that people are born with to see whether certain traits (like having IBD) are directly responsible for other conditions (like hemorrhoids). The latter must be the effect because it occurs only later.

Because our genes are randomly assigned at birth (you don’t get to choose them), this method is a lot like a clinical trial where people are randomly assigned to receive different treatments. In this case, the “treatment” is having genetic variants linked to IBD, and researchers looked at whether those people are more likely to develop hemorrhoids.

The researchers analyzed large sets of genetic data from previous studies that connected certain genetic traits to different conditions. In this case, they looked at the genes of people with IBD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and hemorrhoids.

Indeed, people with genes linked to IBD (especially Crohn’s disease) were statistically more likely to develop hemorrhoids.

The main question remains: How do you eliminate Hemorrhoids and IBD?

For Hemorrhoids, you use both external home remedies and diet and lifestyle changes. Our readers have successfully used the simple steps explained here…

For IBD, diet needs to be your primary focus. Here are simple diet changes that eliminate IBD symptoms (within days)…