Anal fistula will ruin your life

High anal fistula sometimes has a certain recurrence rate after surgery. As long as the internal opening is found correctly during the operation, the fistula is handled properly, and regular follow-up visits and dressing changes are performed after the operation, most of them can be cured. High anal fistula sometimes has a deep fistula that passes above the sphincter. Damage to the sphincter may cause fecal incontinence. The use of hanging thread therapy during surgery can effectively avoid this risk. It is a wrong saying that a person is ruined for life after an anal fistula. Low anal fistula can generally be cured by surgery.

What is hemorrhoids and anal fistula?

Anal fistula refers to the granulomatous tube around the anal canal, which consists of three parts: the inner opening, the fistula, and the outer opening. The main cause of anal fistula is the abscess around the anorectal canal. The abscess ruptures on its own or the drainage is cut to form an outer opening. Because the outer opening grows faster, the abscess often heals falsely, leading to repeated attacks of the abscess, rupture or incision to form multiple fistulas and outer openings. Hemorrhoids and anal fistulas are two different diseases. The main cause of hemorrhoids is constipation or increased abdominal pressure, which leads to pathological hypertrophy and downward movement of the anal cushions, resulting in blood stasis in the perianal subcutaneous vascular plexus to form lumps. Sometimes drinking a lot of alcohol and eating spicy and irritating foods can also lead to the formation of hemorrhoids. Sometimes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease can also lead to the formation of anal fistulas.

Anal fistula treatment cost

A low-level simple anal fistula does not require hospitalization. You can get an intravenous and local anesthesia, or even local anesthesia, in the outpatient clinic. After the procedure, you can get an anti-inflammatory injection for three days. You can come to the outpatient clinic regularly to change the medicine. The cost may be only five or six thousand. When we treat a high-level complex anal fistula, we need spinal anesthesia, and the dressing change time is also long. Its recovery time may be more than one or two months, so its total cost may be more than ten thousand, or even more than twenty thousand. If a low-level simple anal fistula is just the anus, two or three centimeters next to it, it is very small and superficial, and ten or eight centimeters away from the anus, it is very deep, so it will be very different. Its healing time, its anesthesia method, its surgical method, and the number of days of hospitalization are all very different, so its cost is also very different.