Patient's question:
He is over two years old this year, but I noticed that this child has some difficulty when defecating. I took him to the hospital for treatment. After the doctor's careful examination, it was found that he has the symptom of congenital anal rectal stenosis. The doctor recommended us to have surgical treatment as soon as possible. I don't know if this disease must be treated with surgery or what kind of assistance is needed: How should my child be treated for congenital anal rectal stenosis?Doctor's answer:
Determine appropriate treatment methods based on the degree and type of stricture. For mild stricture cases, repeated and prolonged anal dilation is performed, and most can restore normal defecation function. Severe stricture cases require surgical treatment, with the surgery timing ideally chosen before the recurrence of intestinal obstruction. Membranous anal stricture can undergo membrane resection; anal canal stricture can be treated with longitudinal incision and transverse suture or anal canal Y-V flap formation to expand the anal canal diameter; stricture at the anal canal junction, due to its ring-like nature, responds well to stricture release surgery.