We all sit in the bathroom more than expected: even if it seems like a way to relax, it can actually be risky for your health.
Since there are smartphones and, in general, social networks we have all taken a particular habitapparently relaxing, but which can actually pose serious health risks.
All of us when we go to the bathroom to carry out our needs we sit on the toilet bowl longer than necessary just to message or watch videos on TikTok – an action really not recommended by doctors.
The risk is obviously not related to smartphones or technology in general, but precisely to sitting on the toilet bowl for too long. It is clear that the use of mobile phones leads us to sit longer in the bathroom, but this problem already existed before with people who spent time sitting on the toilet reading the newspaper or even a book. We consider it as a kind of break from work and busy life, but really it’s really risky for your health.
Tingling in the legs: the first sign we need to watch out for
Many will have happened to get up from the toilet after about ten minutes and notice a heavy tingling in the legsso much that he can’t keep his balance properly. Although tingling is not a serious condition, it is still a sign that we have spent too much time sitting on the toilet bowl. In the long run they might run into health problems even more serious than we would never want to have.
According to experts, in fact, the maximum time to sit on the cup so that serious health problems do not arise is 10 minutes: if we really want to be sure we can set a timer when we go to the bathroom. It’s clear that we are talking about a discourse relating to “wasting time” and not that relating to physiological needswhich must not be accelerated or interrupted.
If the tingling in the legs, as mentioned, is rather harmless even if very annoying, in several cases much more serious pathologies can occur such as the hemorrhoids. This pathology, also quite common, is caused by the dilation of blood vessels in the anal area due to the fact that it is suspended in space for too long.
Furthermore, by sitting too long, we go to disturb the one who is there intestinal peristalsis, or the muscle contractions that favor the passage of feces from the intestine to the anus. By contrasting these processes we could encounter many pathologies such as constipationthat’s why we shouldn’t spend more than 10 minutes sitting on the toilet bowl.