By Akshay Banker, Nina Banker and Jhanvi Banker
An anal fissure is a tear or cut in the lining of the anus. Passage of stool causes stretching of the anus producing severe pain during bowel movements. It is a common condition affecting men and women alike. Most anal fissures heal after a few days. If the anal fissure has not healed in 1 week on its own, then medicine is required to help it heal.
Sometimes an anal fissure and haemorrhoid [Piles] develop at the same time.
Symptoms:
An anal fissure causes a sharp, stinging, or burning pain during a bowel movement. Pain from a fissure may be quite severe. Patients describe this pain – as if being cut by a knife, as if hot iron is applied; remaining for hours after stool and causing difficulty in sitting, walking and standing. The pain is so severe that the patients fear going for bowel movements and avoid it as much as possible but that makes the problem worse because stool gets collected and impacted in large amounts, often becoming dry and causing more difficulty to pass. Tears come in the eyes while passing stool. There may be itching and bleeding.
Sometimes an anal fissure may be painless and bleeds intermittently.
Causes:
Anal fissures are caused by injury (trauma) to the anus by passing a large stool that stretches the anal canal or giving pressure to pass a hard stool when constipated or by repeated diarrhoea or during pregnancy due to pressure of the uterus or during labour/childbirth or by foreign body insertion or anal intercourse.
In some cases, an anal fissure may be caused by Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Diagnosis:
Anal fissures can be diagnosed from symptoms and by examination of the anus.
Homeopathic Treatment:
Homeopathy has a wonderful effect on this problem. We have seen patients who come to our clinic with severe pain in the anus due to fissure and are unable to sit properly or sit only half on a seat. With homeopathic medicines, they get so much relief from this pain.
When you come to us for treatment, we take a detailed history of your present complaints, a detailed history of past illnesses, your lifestyle, a history of illnesses in the family, your nature/personality/behaviour and stresses in life. This will help us to understand your problem and also the probable root cause of your problem. Based on all this information homeopathic medicines are given which gradually bring relief in Fissures.
Like these diseases, homeopathy has good results in many gastrointestinal diseases like haemorrhoids/piles, fistula, irritable bowel diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, etc.