Anal Fissure Surgery in Mumbai

Mostly doctors recommend anal fissure surgery if combination of home remedies and medications fail to produce desired outcome. During surgery, either local anesthesia or general anesthesia is administered and anal fissures are repaired. The procedure does not take more time and is completed within few hours.

Surgery for treating anal fissures is an outpatient procedure which means patient can go home on the same day itself. It is safe procedure and does not produce any major side-effects.

There are several reasons why anal fissures develop. Sometimes, they may develop due to combination of two or more health hazards. Let us have a look at some common causes of anal fissures:

• Constipation that lasts for long duration
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Straining during bowel movements or during child birth
• Overly tight anal sphincter muscles
• Reduced blood flow to the anorectal area
• Crohn’s disease which is a chronic inflammatory bowel ailment that affects digestive tract lining
• Passing of hard and large stools

In some very rare cases, anal fissures can develop because of following reasons:

• Herpes
• Anal cancer
• HIV
• Syphilis- highly contagious disease which is spread by sexual activities
• Tuberculosis

To prevent occurrence of anal fissures, it is important that one consumes a diet rich in fibers. Some very good food sources of fiber are green vegetables, carrots, cucumbers, melons, bananas, etc.