If you are experiencing and affecting from anal fissures you can try to heal it with home remedies. Anal fissure treatment at home can treat the fissure within 4 to 6 weeks. Pain caused due to the hard bowl movements will go away in few days after healing begins.

One such home cure is a sitz bath where you soak your buttocks in warm water for 20 minutes. This bath is taken 2 or 3 times a day. You also need to incorporate more fiber and fluids in your diet. This help out to soften your stool and prevent constipation. You can also use laxatives and stool softeners, but do so only under medical guidance.

In some cases, these home remedies are not sufficient to heal the fissure or bring relief from the pain. Fissures that persist over 6 weeks are known as long term anal fissures or chronic anal fissures, and they require additional treatment and medication.

Medication: The initial remedy for patients inflicted with long term fissures will be medicine prescribed by your doctor. Let’s examine the options that are used for chronic anal fissure cure.

1. Nitroglycerin Cream - 0.2% of this cream is extremely beneficial in reducing the pressure in the sphincter (internal muscles in the anus). When pressure on the sphincter reduces, the curing process begins. You should only use a pea-sized dot of cream at a time, and not more than this. A lot of this cream can lead to lightheadedness, headaches, and in extreme cases, even fainting due to drop in blood pressure. When applying the cream wear gloves, and gently massage the cream into the anal fissure and areas around it.

2. Nifedipine and Diltiazem both work to ease the pressure on the anal area, specifically, the sphincter. Relief is found very fast, as the pills get dissolved into the system fast.

3. Botox can also be used as anal fissure treatment. The botox is injected into the anus, helping to paralyze the muscles, which in turn relieves some of the tightness and pressure.

4. Surgery: If nothing else works, a doctor will probably recommend surgery as an anal fissure pain treatment. The most common operation is Lateral Internal Sphincterotomy since is usually very successful. A tiny cut is made to the internal anal sphincter to lesson the pressure cause by anal resting and fissure pain. While the surgery does not heal the anal fissure, it creates an environment in which the fissure can cure itself.

Typically this type of surgery is very successful, but there are a few negative side effects to a lateral internal sphincterotomy. 8% of patients later report incontinence which means they pass stools or gas without any control to stop it. Nitroglycerine cream can help this in the long term and there is no medication that comes close to working as well as surgery.

In spite of this disadvantage, a lot of patients consider this surgery as the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. It is more successful than using home cures or medicine, and the results of the surgery are long-lasting. There are also fewer cases of relapses after a surgery.

Anal advancement flap method is another procedure carried out to the women who is going to give birth. This procedure is a best way to avoid any high resting pressure. The doctor’s remove the fissure edges and sew it with healthy tissue on that area.

John Cole is a previous hemorrhoids sufferer. If you want some more aid and recommendation about anal fissure treatment please visit his hemorrhoids online guide.

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