In recent years, more and more babies, as young as 1 month old and as old as 7 or 8 years old, are coming to the clinic for anal fistula. A child is the baby of a family, and when a child is sick, parents are anxious. Some mothers are evil, some fathers are exaggerated, some grandmothers and grandmothers are anxious, and some simply have the whole family in a mess. So what can be done to prevent pediatric anal fistula? The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for a long time. If a child develops an anal fistula, you must not rush, do not panic, and do not err on the side of blind pounding! And don’t listen to the prescriptions! You must pay attention to wiping your baby’s buttocks! Some young parents wipe their children’s bottoms without paying attention to hand towel hygiene, and as a result, they induce anal fistula in their babies. This is because some people, especially older people, think that old cloth is both soft and absorbent, so they like to use old clothes or bed sheets for their children as diapers. I do not know that the old cloth after repeatedly scrubbed, the cloth on the lint is gone, put under the microscope, the surface can be seen covered with a layer of burrs. These burrs are very hard in the dry state of the old cloth surface. So, how can wiping a child’s bottom cause an anal fistula? When changing a child’s diaper after a bowel movement, parents often use a dry diaper to wipe their bottom. The skin of the baby is very delicate and the stool is sticky, so it needs to be wiped back and forth several times to wipe clean, which can easily damage the skin around the anus. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. The symptoms of anal fistula in boys and girls are different: in boys, the fistula is red and painful, the skin around the anus is swollen and shiny after the formation of an abscess, the center is softened, the pus flows out after the ulcer and the fistula is formed, and feces flows out from the fistula when diarrhea occurs. In female infants, the onset is rapid, the vulva is red and swollen, and the feces is discharged from the fistula outside the vaginal opening after ulceration, but the anus does not defecate instead, and only afterwards does the anus gradually resume defecation. In girls, fistulas often do not heal easily on their own, and feces can still leak from the fistula opening when diarrhea occurs later, but the leakage generally decreases after age 2. The most important thing to do is to ask a specialist at a regular hospital’s anorectal department to cure the fistula completely. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of these. 2, if the abscess has formed, can be cut open to drain the pus, to prevent repeated infection, due to the proximity of the anal sinus, can be cut to the anal sinus once, can avoid later into anal fistula. The majority of pediatric anal fistulas can grow and heal on their own with development, so it is generally not advocated that timely radical surgery, once the anal fistula has formed, the child can wait for a little older, to 5-10 years old before surgery, feasible fistulotomy or hanging treatment. If there are two fistulas on both sides of the anus, the fistulotomy should be performed in stages, and if you use the wire method, you can tighten the wire once. The above introduces you to the causes of pediatric anal fistula and how to deal with it, I hope parents do a good job of daily protection to avoid the occurrence of pediatric anal fistula!