Symptoms of the disease 

• pain sometimes very intense, often burning, especially when passing stools. After a bowel movement, the pain typically decreases, then it tends to come back within hours.

• Traces of blood on the surface of the stool or on toilet paper;
• Itching of the anus, often apart from episodes of severe pain, which can lead to scratching lesions;
• Anal contracture due to muscle spasms of the anal sphincter;
• Reflex constipation for fear of pain.

Risk factors

• THEage. Babies under the age of 2 often suffer from anal fissures, for some unexplained reason.
• Repeated attacks of constipation. Forcing and evacuating hard and bulky stools is undoubtedly conducive to anal fissures;
• THEdelivery. Women are more likely to suffer from anal fissures in this period of life. They should not be operated on, but treated medically, and in the event of a fissure becoming chronic, surgery can only be considered 6 months at the earliest after childbirth.