The recovery time after surgery for perianal abscess and anal fistula is usually more around 1 month, but it also depends on the patient’s physical condition and the progress of the type of surgery and other factors.
Perianal abscess mostly refers to acute suppurative infection that occurs around the anus, anal canal, rectum, and anal fistula belongs to the subsequent lesion reaction of perianal abscess. The main clinical symptoms are perianal pain, swelling, and pus, easy to recur, affecting the normal physiological function of the anus.
Perianal abscesses can generally be surgically incised to export pus from the abscessed area, to be about 3 months after the formation of fistulae to implement the radical surgery of anal fistulae.
Surgery for perianal abscess fistula is mainly divided into drainage and radical surgery, generally speaking, the drainage of the treatment of young patients with good health, the recovery time is relatively short, about 1 month or so. Receiving radical surgery recovery time may be correspondingly longer, generally in about 2 months. If the patient is in poor health and older, the recovery time will be longer accordingly.
Therefore, perianal abscess anal fistula surgery, according to the specific condition combined with different individual differences, different types of surgery, there will be different healing recovery process, the patient should actively cooperate with the treatment, comply with the requirements of the doctor, in order to achieve the expected results of surgical recovery.