How are hemorrhoids not dangerous?

Question

If I had an open wound on my body, I would imagine rubbing excrement in it would cause infection. For hemorrhoids, it is often the excrement that causes the bleeding as it rubs itself on the wound. How are hemorrhoids so common but infection from them not?

In: Biology

Answer 1

i asked a proctologist about this: “isnt it dangerous to get fecal matter in the blood?”

he said something like “not down there, and we dont know why exactly”