Hello Everyone,
Im 25 years old, and My son is 4 years old and he has just recently been diagnosed with a re-occurring peri-anal abscess.
He has had this condition since he was about 2 years old and we have visited the accident and Emergency ward several times...but it is only until recently that the doctors made it very clear what his condition was. Before I had absolutely no idea and even considered that my son could have been sexually abused :confused2:
Cause of Condition unknown
We await further test to discover WHY he has this condition, there was some suggestion of diabetes as it runs in the family, However his overall health is very good....he does not appear to be a child with undiagnosed diabetes.
I'm very disappointed in which the way the British doctors have dealt with this condition, every time we have gone to the hospital , the only thing they offer him is 5mg of Calpol. They have never prescribed a topical cream or gel to ease the condition, and only once we were prescribed antibiotics (which i wasn't overly keen to give him because antibiotics is not a long term solution, and could cause him to build up an intolerance and a weaker immunity) Also the antibiotics didn't seem to dramatically improve the condition, It tends to clear up of it's own accord anyway after 5 rather painful days.
Mothers intuition
Personally I feel he possibly has IBD or Crohns.
Intuitively I feel that his diet should be changed so that he is eating ALOT of high fiber food, perhaps he could go on few short smoothie fasts and clean out his colons with some very healthy clean nutritious food? colonic irrigation is also meant to have many health benefits, although I would prefer to avoid as much invasive procedures as possible. I feel lots of water and hydration helps to prevent constipation too which seems to trigger the abscesses.
At the moment he has a healthy vegetarian Diet, however at the weekends his father feeds him meat (without my consent) which probably doesn't help with his digestive system.
As it stands we have very stressful moment in our life whenever this condition shows up, he is getting abscess around 9 times a year, and each time is very difficult, it is awful to see my son in so much pain and i feel helpless to do anything, we do not have a proper treatment plan in place, except hot baths with sea salt, and hot compresses to drawn the infection out, and also lots of water and fruit to avoid constipation. oo:
I look forward to talking to people about this condition and learning more.
Violet_eyes
:smile:
Im 25 years old, and My son is 4 years old and he has just recently been diagnosed with a re-occurring peri-anal abscess.
He has had this condition since he was about 2 years old and we have visited the accident and Emergency ward several times...but it is only until recently that the doctors made it very clear what his condition was. Before I had absolutely no idea and even considered that my son could have been sexually abused :confused2:
Cause of Condition unknown
We await further test to discover WHY he has this condition, there was some suggestion of diabetes as it runs in the family, However his overall health is very good....he does not appear to be a child with undiagnosed diabetes.
I'm very disappointed in which the way the British doctors have dealt with this condition, every time we have gone to the hospital , the only thing they offer him is 5mg of Calpol. They have never prescribed a topical cream or gel to ease the condition, and only once we were prescribed antibiotics (which i wasn't overly keen to give him because antibiotics is not a long term solution, and could cause him to build up an intolerance and a weaker immunity) Also the antibiotics didn't seem to dramatically improve the condition, It tends to clear up of it's own accord anyway after 5 rather painful days.
Mothers intuition
Personally I feel he possibly has IBD or Crohns.
Intuitively I feel that his diet should be changed so that he is eating ALOT of high fiber food, perhaps he could go on few short smoothie fasts and clean out his colons with some very healthy clean nutritious food? colonic irrigation is also meant to have many health benefits, although I would prefer to avoid as much invasive procedures as possible. I feel lots of water and hydration helps to prevent constipation too which seems to trigger the abscesses.
At the moment he has a healthy vegetarian Diet, however at the weekends his father feeds him meat (without my consent) which probably doesn't help with his digestive system.
As it stands we have very stressful moment in our life whenever this condition shows up, he is getting abscess around 9 times a year, and each time is very difficult, it is awful to see my son in so much pain and i feel helpless to do anything, we do not have a proper treatment plan in place, except hot baths with sea salt, and hot compresses to drawn the infection out, and also lots of water and fruit to avoid constipation. oo:
I look forward to talking to people about this condition and learning more.
Violet_eyes
:smile: