Consultancy

Jane provides consultancy at the clinic in Richmond for:

GENERAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

  • Abdominal pain
  • Nausea/vomiting
  • Constipation
  • Diarrhoea
  • Change in bowel habit
  • Incontinence of faeces (losing control of bowel motion) or faecal leakage
  • Anal/rectal pain
  • Bleeding from the bottom
  • Skin lumps which may be skin cancer, lipoma, sebaceous cyst
  • Abdominal hernias – incisional (in previous scars), inguinal, femoral, umbilical
  • Pilonidal disease (recurring infection in the butt crack otherwise known as natal cleft)
  • Gallstones

COLORECTAL PROBLEMS

  • Colon or rectal polyps or cancer
  • Family history of colon or rectal polyps or cancer
  • Diverticular disease
  • Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohns disease or ulcerative colitis)
  • Difficulty with stomas (ileostomy/colostomy)
  • Rectal prolapse (where the lining and sometimes muscle of the rectum fall out of the bottom)
  • Difficulty emptying the rectum

ANAL PROBLEMS

  • Haemorrhoids
  • Skin tags
  • Pruritis ani (itch around the anus)
  • Anal fissure (split in anal canal, very painful. Treatment options include injection of Botox to treat this which I can do in the rooms.)
  • Fistula-in-ano, this is a communication between the rectum/anus and skin and presents as recurring abscesses around the bottom.
  • Anal intra epithelial neoplasia (AIN) which can lead to anal cancer
  • Perianal warts (warts around the bottom)
  • Anal cancer

Conditions requiring sedation or a general anaesthetic procedures are carried out at Tasman Day Surgery (341 Lower Queen Street), Nelson Day Surgery (132 Collingwood Street) or Manuka Street Hospital.