Good news for patients with hemorrhoids and anal ducts! Laser surgery helps reduce pain and shorten recovery period. Doctors praise: No more "fidgeting"
Swelling and pain in the anus, which makes people “unable to sit still”, are not necessarily just “hemorrhoids”, but may also be caused by “anal tubes”. Gao Shiyi, deputy director of Zhongli Tiansheng Hospital, said that hemorrhoids and anal ducts have different symptoms and causes. The same thing is that they both cause bleeding and are highly recurrent, and the discomfort of surgery often makes patients hesitant about treatment. However, now there is minimally invasive laser surgery, which can shorten recovery time, reduce wounds, reduce pain, and reduce patients’ fear of treatment compared with traditional surgery.
Hemorrhoids and anal tubes have different causes and symptoms
Vice President Gao Shiyi explained that “hemorrhoids” are varicose veins in the mucous membrane around the anus or under the skin due to poor backflow. It is a vascular disease and will form lumps in the affected area over time. Due to difficulty in defecation, the rectal mucosa is pushed out during exertion. The patient will feel a foreign body sensation and pain in the anus. Over time, the hemorrhoids will leak out of the anus. If the degree is too severe, anal prolapse may occur.
“Anal canal” refers to inflammation and suppuration of the tissues around the anus. Bacteria destroy some loose tissues between the anal sphincter and the skin, forming a channel. Since the passage continues to secrete mucus, there are also bacteria in the rectum. When a certain amount accumulates or the patient’s immunity is poor, purulence will occur.
Traditional surgery has a long recovery period and high pain
As for treatment, Gao Shiyi pointed out that in the past, in the treatment of hemorrhoids, in addition to general drug treatment, some invasive treatments were added. Surgery was one of them, which was mostly used for third- and fourth-level internal hemorrhoids and moderate to severe hemorrhoids. External hemorrhoids; in traditional anal canal surgery, the anal canal passage is found and incised or removed.
However, hemorrhoid surgery mainly involves the removal of diseased blood vessels. At the same time, part of the mucous membrane and skin will be removed, causing heavy bleeding and causing pain. The recovery period after surgery is at least 2 weeks; as for the anal canal, In the early days, sometimes the sphincter had to be cut off because the canal passed through the sphincter, which affected the anus contractility. However, as surgical techniques have improved, this situation has become less common, but generally it still requires a recovery period of more than 2 weeks.
Laser surgery has small wounds! Recovery time is fast and pain is greatly reduced
However, both of these conditions can now be solved through minimally invasive laser surgery. Gao Shiyi said that in the case of hemorrhoids, the heat energy generated by laser is used to coagulate the hemorrhoid blood vessels and slowly shrink and block them, thereby achieving the effect of controlling hemorrhoids. Compared with traditional surgery, since the epidermis and mucosa are preserved, the recovery process is The patient’s discomfort is greatly reduced. If no special circumstances occur, the symptoms will generally recover in about 1 week.
Laser treatment of the anal canal also uses heat energy to cauterize the anal canal, using the healing process to produce fibrosis, allowing the anal canal to close on its own without breaking the sphincter.
“The main advantages of laser surgery are: small wounds, fast recovery time, less bleeding, and much less pain.” Gao Shiyi emphasized that because each patient’s condition is different, in some cases it is necessary to combine laser and surgery. Perfect processing. Therefore, it is recommended that the public should not hide their illnesses and seek medical treatment as soon as possible, seek medical advice as soon as possible if they find symptoms, ask a doctor for evaluation, and then provide the most appropriate treatment according to the situation.
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