Is the chance of false healing of anal fistula high?

Anal fistula is caused by abscesses around the anus. Patients with anal fistula will experience symptoms such as pus discharge around the anus, pain, and constipation, which will cause great harm to the patient's daily life and physical health. Active treatment is required. The more common method of treating anal fistula is through surgery, but anal fistula surgery must be done in a regular professional hospital. Never go to some small clinics or small hospitals.

Is the chance of false healing of anal fistula high?

Anal fistulas are basically developed from perianal abscesses and are caused by anal gland infection. Anal fistula is divided into simple low-position anal fistula and high-position complex anal fistula. If it is a simple low-position anal fistula, the wound is often smaller, the postoperative recovery is often faster, and the chance of false healing of anal fistula is not high. If it is a high-position complex anal fistula, the wound is often deeper, the postoperative recovery is slower, and the chance of false healing of anal fistula is higher. If it is a high-position complex anal fistula, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital for anorectal surgery. After the operation, insist on changing the dressing every day and let a professional anorectal doctor observe changes in the wound condition.

What are the dangers of untreated anal fistula?

Pus discharge: pus discharge is the main symptom of anal fistula. First, after the anal fistula becomes infected and inflamed, the anus will be severely painful. After rupture, the pus will stain the underwear and irritate the local skin, causing severe anal itching. Over time, it can make the body weak and emaciated, the spirit low, the disease resistance decreased, and the attacks will become more frequent, forming a cause and effect relationship.

Increased fistula openings and fistula tracts: Repeated anal fistulas can cause pus to break through the tube wall and spread along the sphincter gap to form multiple and complex anal fistulas, which not only make treatment difficult but also affect the physiological function of the anus.

Anal incontinence: If anal fistula is allowed to develop, it may cause serious damage to the sphincter and may even cause complications such as anal incontinence.

Danger of disease: Multiple anal fistulas can form rectovaginal fistulas, rectourethral fistulas and rectovesical fistulas, endangering surrounding organs. In addition, old anal fistulas that have not been treated for many years or have been treated incorrectly may become diseased.

Since many fistula symptoms are similar to anal fistula, it is easy to misdiagnose. Therefore, when checking, you must go to a professional anorectal hospital for examination to detect and treat it early.

After anal fistula occurs, patients should pay enough attention to it. Many diseases are delayed in treatment in the early stages because patients are optimistic and think that the disease will heal itself. In fact, these practices are unscientific. Patients must actively prevent and treat them to avoid the formation of complex and multiple fistulas, which can cause great harm to the patient's body.