Can you eat spinach with hemorrhoids?

You can eat spinach when you have hemorrhoids. Spinach is rich in crude fiber, which promotes bowel movement and has a good therapeutic effect on constipation and dry, hard stools. Spinach also has the effect of moistening and stopping bleeding, which is also a significant improvement to the blood in the stool caused by hemorrhoids, so for hemorrhoids patients should eat more spinach as appropriate. You should avoid spicy, stimulating, hot, fishy, seafood foods such as beef, mutton, dog meat, chili, onion, ginger, garlic, etc. At the same time, you should eat more fiber-rich foods, such as leeks, celery, bananas, dragon fruit, sweet potatoes, etc., which will help the smooth passage of stool. Patients should develop good defecation habits, avoid sitting or squatting for a long time, and defecation time should not exceed 5 minutes. In addition after defecation properly wash the perianal area with warm salt water, which can avoid aggravation of hemorrhoids.