Can anal fistula be treated without surgery?

Anal fistula is a very painful disease. Patients with anal fistula often feel anal pain and have blood in their stool when defecating. Moreover, if anal fistula continues to develop for a long time, it is very likely to become cancerous, which will double the patient's pain and even threaten his life in severe cases. If you have an anal fistula, surgery is the best option. So, can anal fistula be treated without surgery?

Many patients with anal fistula are afraid of surgery and have illusions about conservative treatment, and even believe in deceptive advertisements. Also, because anal fistula is sometimes in an active stage and sometimes in a dormant stage, when it is in a dormant stage, patients are likely to think that anal fistula can be cured without surgery, resulting in indefinite delay in treatment. If anal fistula is not treated with surgery for a long time, it will be harmful to the human body. First of all, it is easy to turn into cancer over time. Secondly, for those who do not have cancer, the physical and mental pain will increase, such as frequent anal pain, underwear that is often stained with pus and blood, and especially local skin itching, which is unbearable. Third, it will weaken your physical condition and reduce your disease resistance. Frequent discharge of pus and blood can lead to anemia, and the patient will feel very weak, powerless, listless, etc. Therefore, anal fistula is very harmful to humans, and early surgical treatment is the best option.

In the past, some people have tried to cure anal fistulas without surgery using conservative methods, but all have ended in failure. Practice has shown that, so far, only surgery can cure anal fistula. Conservative treatment can only relieve symptoms but cannot cure anal fistula. Because anal fistula is different from infections in other parts of the body, it has a fixed source of infection in the anus or rectal cavity, namely the anal fistula. If the source of infection is not completely removed, anal fistula cannot be cured. Only surgery can completely remove the source of infection. This is why only surgery can cure anal fistula.

The purpose of anal fistula surgery is to cut open the fistula (including hanging the thread, which is also cutting the fistula), clear the internal opening, eliminate the source of infection, allow new granulation tissue to grow upward from the bottom of the wound, gradually fill the wound, and allow the fistula to heal. As a patient, if you understand this, you should go to a regular hospital for surgical treatment as soon as possible. Do not believe the deceptive advertisements that claim anal fistulas can be cured without surgery, so as to avoid the disease from worsening and causing lifelong regrets.