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.