Hemorrhoids are not hereditary. Often patients will ask if it is a genetic reason that their parents have hemorrhoids and they also have hemorrhoids. There are two general reasons for this illusion: one, because the incidence of hemorrhoids is really high, basically everyone has hemorrhoids, some have symptoms, some have no symptoms, often after eating spicy food shows blood in the stool, some will show a mass prolapse, so, basically everyone has hemorrhoids, resulting in the misconception of heredity. Second, the same family habits are relatively similar, most of the causes of hemorrhoids are caused by bad habits, such as eating spicy food, drinking more alcohol, squatting toilets for a longer period of time, dry stools, stimulation of the hemorrhoid area, it is easy to cause hemorrhoids, so it often creates the illusion that hemorrhoids can be inherited.