What Causes Pain in the Gluteal Cleft?
The anal cleft is also the area of the anus. If pain in the anus occurs frequently, it can be considered due to recently consuming overly stimulating food, adverse mental factors, or pathological factors. It is recommended to gradually adjust one's lifestyle to address constipation issues, prevent tumor infections, and avoid inflammation. Proper care must be taken promptly.
Clinical cases of anal pain are not uncommon. Most patients can identify clear causes, but some have unclear causes. The reasons for anal pain roughly include the following aspects:
Mental Factors: Mostly caused by mental stress, such as anal-rectal neurosis, pudendal nerve syndrome, sciatica, and coccygeal neuralgia that reflect to the anus, causing anal pain.
Foreign Objects and Adverse Dietary Stimuli: Trauma, foreign bodies in the rectum, spicy food, and excessive alcohol consumption can all irritate the anus and cause pain.
Infections Around the Anus and Rectum: Including perianal abscesses, anal gland infections, anal papillitis, etc. These diseases can also cause anal pain.
Anal Diseases: Conditions like incarcerated hemorrhoids, inflammatory external hemorrhoids, thrombosed external hemorrhoids, anal fissures, anal fistulas, etc., can all cause anal pain.
Intestinal Infection, Diarrhea, and Constipation: Intestinal infections can cause inflammation to irritate the anus. Diarrhea and constipation can mechanically irritate the anus when feces pass through, leading to anal pain.
Anal Canal and Rectal Tumors: Both benign and malignant tumors can cause anal pain due to infection of their surface mucosa or direct compression on the anal area. In advanced stages, rectal cancer involving nerves in the anal canal can cause severe pain.
