Anal fissures

ANAL FISSURES - Tears or superficial lacerations that can occur in the mucosa that lines the anal canal.
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Anal Fissures
A small tear or cracklike sore in the mucous lining of the anus, the outlet through which fecal waste passes, is known as an anal fissure. Fissures are the most common cause of rectal bleeding in infants and older children.
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Anal fissures are tiny tears, usually less than 1/2 inch long, in the skin of the anus. The anus is the opening through which bowel movements pass.
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Anal fissures are extremely common in young infants but may occur at any age. Studies suggest 80% of infants will have had an anal fissure by the end of the first year.
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Chronic anal fissures
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Anal fissures
Diverticular bleeding
Intestinal infection (such as bacterial enterocolitis)
Vascular malformation
Inflammatory bowel disease
Tumor
Colon polyps or colon cancer
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Anal fissures, which are narrow tears that extends from the muscles that control the anus (anal sphincters) up into the anal canal.
Colon polyps: small growths of excess tissue that often grow on a stem or stalk.
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You may be able to prevent anal fissures by preventing episodes of constipation. To do this, soften your stool by gradually adding more fiber to your diet, and by drinking six to eight glasses of water daily. Begin a program of regular exercise.
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Recurrent perianal fissures, infection, or abscess.
Significant weight loss.
Fall-off in height percentiles of more than one channel.
Pronounced pubertal delay, or absent or delayed menstrual periods.
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This includes people with colostomy or ileostomy bags, piles, irritable bowl syndrome, and anal fissures (small cracks around the anus). Stimulant laxatives are helpful if the bowel is full and a bulk-forming laxative is inappropriate.
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Pruritus involving anal or vulvar areas might be caused by infections with Trichomonas or fungi, local tumors, hemorrhoids, anal fissures, fistula discharge, wound effluent, or surgical wound drainage.
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Diverticular disease, angiodysplasia, polyps, hemorrhoids, and anal fissures most commonly cause the bleeding. Blood in the stool can result from cancers, inflammatory bowel disease, and infectious diarrhea.
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anal pain, hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, digital rectal examination that shows a mass, perianal abscess and condyloma (a wart-like growth). An anascopy may be performed to check for abnormal openings between the anus and the skin, or anal fissures.
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Cellegesic (nitroglycerin ointment) Investigational nitroglycerin-based product for topical or intra-anal application for the treatment of pain associated with chronic anal fissures.
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