What does a perianal abscess look like?

Perianal abscess is a disease in which the soft tissues around the anus become inflamed and infected. Perianal soft tissue inflammation and infection, in severe cases, can cause hard lumps around the anus, individual abscesses have a fluctuating sense of touch, and accompanied by redness, swelling, pain, ulceration, pus flow of the situation. The cause of the disease is due to pathogenic microbial infection, resulting in perianal soft tissue inflammation and suppurative infection, in addition to the patient’s anus contraction, will also cause stimulation of the inflammation part of the pull, pain and other symptoms, seriously affecting the normal life. Perianal abscess, patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to use levofloxacin hydrochloride capsules, cefixime, metronidazole tablets and other drugs for treatment, if the perianal abscess is more serious, the patient can use incision and drainage of the surgical method, to drain pus treatment. Patients should keep the perianal area clean, and can use 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution, warm salt water for sitz bath, which can help to reduce the patient’s anal pain, swelling and other symptoms. Patients should strengthen the perianal hygiene habits in daily life, avoid spicy and irritating food, etc., to avoid causing perianal infection.