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If you think you're getting extra water into your system by downing several cups of coffee or a few alcoholic drinks, think again. Caffeine and alcohol actually act as a diuretic and cause extra trips to the restroom, which in turn depletes your system of its desperately needed "water" source. Your intestinal track must have the proper amount of hydration present or problems like constipation can occur. If you have a problem with constipation make it a point to cut DOWN on your intake of caffeine and alcohol because both can make the stool dry and hard.
Rather than causing dehydration and therefore indirectly causing hemorrhoids through the passing of dry stools, I find that alcohol directly causes them to appear. After a big night out on the turps, I wake up with painful thrombosis, long before I need to pass a stool.
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