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Suggest Treatment For Diarrhea With Burning Sensation

Posted on Fri, 10 Oct 2014

Question: Hi doctor. About 3 weeks ago I had a bout of diarrhea and my gp put in on antibiotics for 3 days. Since 2 weeks I hav had mild burning sensation while passing stool and for mayb an hour it lingers. Sometimes it's better sometimes little worse. What could this be and what could I do

Answered by Dr. Sudhir (53 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Might just mild inflammation.

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

Its likely to be mild anal mucosal inflammation.It should not be cause of worry.

In most cases it is self limiting.You can apply anovate cream, this will help relieve your symptoms.Regards.

Hope this helps.Please ask if there are doubts.Regards.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Sudhir (1 hour later)

Okay thank you. So this is not anal fissure? It's just slight burning and itching ...and diet I shud avoid

Answered by Dr. Sudhir (17 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Fissure can also present same way.

Detailed Answer:
Fissure can also present same way, but anal spasm and pain would be more presenting features.So seems unlikely.

Anovate does help to heal a fissure as well.

So treatment remains same.

Regards.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Bhagyalaxmi Nalaparaju