What causes an itchy anus ?

  • Submitted on 07/05/2024

2 specialists answered

  • so many thinks ! candidiasis of the perineum, constipation with difficulties to void the rectum even with moose stools, worms like oxyurosis....

    Ingrid Perlot

    Gastroenterologist | Nivelles

  • Premièrement, les hemorroides congestionnées peuvent declencher du prurit anal; la seconde etiologie responsable sont les parasitoses en l'occurence l'oxyurose; il s'agit surtout d'un prurit nocturne. Enfin des problematiques cutanées peuvent declencher du prurit anal egalement.

    Samatar Hassan

    Gastroenterologist | Schaerbeek

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