What are the early symptoms of anal fistula

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We know that many patients in our life will be troubled by the problem of anal fistula. The damage of this disease is very serious, so we patients must pay attention to active treatment. Once anal fistula occurs, it will not only bring serious harm, but also make the patients painstakingly seek the treatment of this disease, and in the early stage of this disease Patients will have a lot of symptoms, especially the problem of pus, so it is very necessary to understand the early symptoms of the disease.

What are the early symptoms of anal fistula

First: the first one is discharge of pus, which is also the main symptom of the disease. Generally speaking, the newly generated fistula has more discharge of pus, and the pus is sticky and yellow and smelly. If the fistula lasts for a long time, the discharge of pus is relatively less, or sometimes not, and it will become very thin.

The second is the pain. When the fistula is unobstructed and there is no inflammation, there is generally no pain, only a slight swelling of the anus. When walking, there will be aggravating problems. If the external mouth is closed, the fistula stores pus, or feces enter the fistula, the pain will increase or the pain will increase when defecating.

Third: there will be this induration or scar. Due to repeated stimulation of fistula wall and fistula orifice, fibrous tissue will proliferate and form tough connective tissue in fistula wall and fistula orifice. It is often manifested as skin discoloration, epidermal abscission and concave deformation around fistula, and there will be cord like induration leading to anus.

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Finally, we want to say that this disease generally has no systemic symptoms. When the anal fistula has a larger scope of invasion, deeper or more branches, repeated inflammation and infection will lead to some systemic symptoms.