Only on those occasions hemorrhoids cause pain, in the most part of time they stay quiet, only eventually bleeding . Basic treatment for hemorrhoids is clinical one, with hygienodietetic measures, as hot seat bathings, ointments and antinflammatory pills for pain in crisis. Bleeding little hemorrhoids can be treated at office with sclerosis or elastic ligature. The largest ones can be of surgical treatment, if they bother carriers. Abscesses Anal abscesses are pouchs full of purulent secretion originated from infection of anal glands there existent and that have the function of lubrication of anus.
Main symptoms are high fever, intensive pain and perianal tumor.
Treatment is basically surgical, draining at anal periphery, sometimes being necessary antibiotics as therapeutic complement. Half of the anal abscesses are cured with these simple measures, even so the other half evolve to fistulas. They are channels formed from drained anal abscesses, surgical or spontaneously, and communicate anal canal with perianal region. Channels are epithelized inflammatory processes and they don't heal with clinical treatment, being necessary surgery to open fistulas or resecation of all fistulous course under anesthesia. They are radial anal border wounds very painful.