Hemorrhoids aren't contagious. They're just an acquired environmental affliction, caused by misuse of or poor care of the body. 50 % of people over 50 have the problem and are trying to find how to get rid of hemroids. They most likely got them because of one or more of 4 factors:

1. Lack of dietary fiber in the diet. This can lead to infrequent bowel movements and hard stool. Straining to pass hard stool does harm to rectal tissues. With time, this damage shows itself as hemorrhoids. If you're not having 1-3 bowel movements daily, if your stool is hard lumps or hard to pass, then you aren't consuming adequate dietary fiber. Oat bran, wheat bran, flax seeds, whole wheat bread and the majority of vegetables and fruits will help. Actually, a hemorrhoid home remedy, one of several natural remedies for hemorrhoids, is to change over to a higher-fiber diet.

2. Not enough exercise. Our bodies are wonderful, highly adaptable and efficient machines. If we don't use them enough, with both aerobic and strength activities and exercises, they degrade. They lose capacity to maintain and regenerate themselves. We suffer a loss of hard healthy muscle tissue and increase fatty flab.

3. Poor diet. An excess of low fiber processed foods, too much of one's caloric intake in fats, and insufficient vitamins, minerals, friendly bacteria and phytochemical substances that the body requires. This weakens the body and its tissues. Hemorrhoids are one of the effects.

Many people aren't getting an adequate amount of the nutrients that only come from whole-foods or food supplements. Therefore our bodies lack the nourishment needed to keep us strong and healthy. We need to eat healthy diets or take many supplements to prevent these deficiencies.

4. Sitting too long in the same position. This tends to disrupt adequate blood circulation to posterior tissues, causing harm to veins and adjacent flesh. It can result in varicose vein effects and hemorrhoids. If you must sit, move around. Get up and move about frequently. And/or get a very good cushion that will not disrupt normal blood flow.

Whether or not you get hemorrhoids would depend mostly on how well you maintain your body. Hemorrhoids are a result of poor body maintenance, much like obesity, type 2 diabetes, ulcers and quite a few other too-common ailments.

It is really far better to spend the time and expend the effort on maintaining your body in good condition, than it is to be worrying about how to heal hemorrhoids or how to get rid of hemroids!

"Preventive maintenance" is really a lot less expensive (and less painful) than "breakdown maintenance"!