Anal skin diseases are more, mostly with pruritus as the main feature, clinical common is anal pruritus and anal eczema. Some patients consult the evening anus and perineal itching, and anus around a knot in one’s heart. Still have a few patient private letter we ask: can hemorrhoids itch? Hear anus is very urticant get haemorrhoid, be? Today I’m going to answer your questions.
First, know what anal pruritus is. Anal pruritus is a neuropathic skin disease characterized by intense itching without primary skin damage. This disease is more in 20- 40 years old young adults, male more than female. Anal ministry skin often scratches ceaselessly because of pruritus, old often appears erosive, haemorrhage, scab, scratch mark, when secondary hair is infected, can have smelly liquid, wear well not over, the skin can appear coarse, chapped, flexibility is abate, burnish disappears and pigmentation lichen is sclerotic wait for secondary damage. Anal pruritus, often a symptom of primary lesions, secondary to a variety of skin diseases or other diseases, with obvious specific skin lesions and primary lesions.
Next, what symptom does anus urticant disease have? Refractory pruritus around the anus canal and is the main symptoms of the disease, generally limited to itchy skin around the anus when beginning, more for paroxysmal, itching degree weight is differ, if not more for a long time, some can spread to the scrotum or labia, especially in the seam between before and after the perineum pruritus, night is more significant, sometimes like a moth to climb, ants walk; Sometimes such as mosquito bite, fire roast, so that people difficult to sleep, sit restless, unable to endure. When this disease rises at the beginning, the skin does not have damage, excessive scratch is scratched or mechanical stimulation makes anus week skin hyperplasia is thick coarse, affected place can see scratch mark, blood scab, prickle, pigmentation and lichen kind sclerosis or eczema kind change, can produce secondary infection sometimes, more serious person can combine infection to see have purulent bubble or purulent sex secretion, flush is swollen. The lesions can be extended to the perineum, scrotum, female vulva and even the skin on both hips. When a long time long, can cause neurasthenia, food do not know taste, low spirits and other symptoms.
Finally, according to the etiology can be divided into primary itching and secondary itching.
- Primary itch
Primary pruritus is not accompanied by primary skin lesions, with pruritus as the main symptom.
- Secondary itching
Secondary pruritus results from primary disease and various skin diseases, accompanied by obvious specific skin lesions and primary lesions. Pruritus is often a symptom of primary lesions. Anal pruritus caused by anal fistula, anal eczema, condyloma, neurodermatitis, anorectal tumor, pinworm, etc., belongs to this category.
Anal pruritus mostly occurs in the prime of 20 ~ 40 years old, the elderly population, younger than 20 years old, rarely occurs in children. It is more common in men than women, and occurs more frequently in people who are quiet and don’t exercise often. Clinical examination can find internal hemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids, mixed hemorrhoids, anal fistula, or laboratory examination found diabetes, pinworm disease, candida albicans infection. Secondary pruritus has obvious pathogenic causes and is easy to be treated. Spontaneous or unexplained is not easily cured and often recurs, accounting for about 50% of all patients.
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