|
Fistulas
What is a fistula?
A fistula is a tube filled with pus. Anal or rectal fistulas (or
fistulae) have one or more openings in the buttocks near the anal
opening, and another one (the feeder) is inside the anal canal or
rectum. Fistulas almost always develop from abscesses, although not
all abscesses become fistulas. As an abscess forms, all of
the typical symptoms of pain, swelling, heat and redness appear. The
symptoms worsen until the abscess either points (becomes a fistula)
and breaks, or is lanced by a physician. At that point, much
of the pain and pressure that has built up is relieved.
Progression of the Disease, and Treatment
So the patient may think his trouble is over, but more needs to
be done to complete the treatment process. For example, the
opening (or fistula), which has drained the abscess can become clogged. When
this happens, the patient again undergoes the same suffering as before
until the fistula tube reopens or a new opening is formed to provide
drainage for the accumulated pus and debris.
If the fistula drains continuously on its own, the pain and suffering
is often negligible. It’s the body’s adaptation
to a deep infection. However, even when this happens, the infected
area is still dumping pus and toxic material into the bloodstream
day and night, poisoning and depleting the entire system. Suffice
to say, a deep infection in the rectal area (or elsewhere else, really),
whether or not it has become an abscess or fistula, must be opened,
fully cleaned out and prepared for healing.
This same mechanism is usually at work when a tooth needs to be
extracted – an abscess of the surrounding gums called pyorrhea.
Extraction is the customary advice because it is known that many
constitutional and chronic ailments, such as indigestion, rheumatism,
skin diseases, and many others, are caused by the absorption of toxins
or poisons from some chronically infected area.
Fistula is a critical ailment that requires skill and experience
if further complications are to be avoided. My methods are
conservative. There is no hospitalization and I can reasonably assure
satisfactory results in every case I accept for treatment.
Neglect
If fistulae are neglected, allowed to stop up and gather from time
to time, they eventually undermine all of the tissues surrounding
the rectum. The surgery required to remove all the infection
covers a larger and larger area as time goes on.
Root Causes
90% of all fistulas are caused by infected crypts or anal glands,
a condition known as cryptitis.
If the anal glands get infected, which is common, they turn into
small abscesses. These tiny glands sit in crypts, or cavities,
called the crypts of orgagne. The abscesses begin
to work their way out from the crypts toward the exterior of the
body forming a tunnel so as to drain. It’s an emergency
measure our bodies use to drain internal infections.
If an infection tunneling to the surface sounds like an amazing
thing, I agree that it is.
Here’s why it happens : a fistula is an abnormal communication
between two epithelial-like (skin-like) surfaces, meaning, basically,
you’ve already got a hole inside in the anal gland or the crypt,
that will burrow its way out and cause a hole to open on the external
tissue, to drain. In this way, the body always tries to drain
infections by externalizing them. To treat them I just connect
the dots, by going in where it’s coming out. But it’s
much less painful than it sounds!
Our Treatment Methods
Diathermy
When To Seek Help
Are You In Pain?
|
