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My father and brother are away this evening, so my mother and I are having a film night (Perfume, I think). Tomorrow, I'm going to a friend's house to help decorate and perhaps to visit my grandmother.
I've certainly heard of the link between haemorrhoids and western toilets before - anything that makes you strain more is going to have an effect I saw some leaflets once that were giving advice to elderly people about what to do if they were having difficulty opening their bowels: "Push really hard". But no mention of getting into a squatting position - although I could see problems with lots of elderly people toppling off the western-style toilet they were squatting on! (And those things are surprisingly high - I passed out on the toilet once and smacked my head on the floor pretty hard...)
I saw some leaflets once that were giving advice to elderly people about what to do if they were having difficulty opening their bowels: "Push really hard". But no mention of getting into a squatting position - although I could see problems with lots of elderly people toppling off the western-style toilet they were squatting on! (And those things are surprisingly high - I passed out on the toilet once and smacked my head on the floor pretty hard...)