: A few years ago, I read an interesting article on hemorrhoids written By Bahar Gholipour on LiveScience. It reported that the number of Americans searching online for hemorrhoids and how to treat them has skyrocketed since 2008. Information gathered from Google searches suggests that searches have doubled from 2008 to 2013. The term “hemorrhoids” was searched about 40,000 times weekly between 2004 and 2008, but this number started to rise during mid-2008, crept up to about 80,000 weekly searches in 2010, and reached nearly 120,000 during some weeks in 2013. I believe that the number could have tripled by now.
There could be two reasons why more people go online to search for hemorrhoid information. First, more people are becoming more comfortable with the Internet. More often than before, I’ve heard even from the elderly patients that they found our hemorrhoid clinic through Internet. Second, diseases such as hemorrhoids may be among the most searched-for online because people could be embarrassed to talk about them with a doctor. Many patients don’t realize that hemorrhoids are a common medical condition that affects many Americans. “Nobody has it but me” is one of the misconceptions about hemorrhoids.
If you search for “hemorrhoids” on Google, it shows about 8,220,000 results. Not all webpages are informative and useful. We have built an informative hemorrhoids website, hemorrhoidheal.com, that provides essential information about hemorrhoid care.
