What is hernia? What are the symptoms?

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Hernia means that a part of human tissue or organ leaves the original part and enters another part through the gap, defect or weak part of human body. Commonly known as "small intestine gas", there are umbilical hernia, inguinal hernia, indirect hernia, incisional hernia, recurrent hernia, white line hernia, femoral hernia, etc. Hernia is caused by coughing, sneezing, excessive exertion, abdominal obesity, forced defecation, women's pregnancy, excessive crying of children, elderly abdominal wall strength degeneration and other reasons. What is hernia? What are the symptoms? Let's talk about it

What is hernia? What are the symptoms?

The main symptom of hernia is in the inguinal area, where a mass can be seen or felt. Most of the babies were found by mothers when changing diapers, while the older children were found more when they were in the bath or in the health clinic. The most common cause is crying. Other causes include cough, defecation and urination. Older children can stand, abdominal force can also induce the emergence of mass, mass may only be seen in the groin area, some will reach the scrotum or labia. When the sick child is quiet or sleeping, it flickers. The mass is formed by the prolapse of organs from the abdominal cavity to the groin. Most of the prolapsed organs are small intestine. Therefore, it feels soft to the touch. When it goes back, it is often accompanied by a murmur. Other organs such as the large intestine, appendix and omentum may also prolapse. In women, ovarian prolapse is more common, so it is often felt as big as thumb, hard and most of them have tenderness.

Older children can stand, abdominal force can also induce the emergence of mass, mass may only be seen in the groin area, some will reach the scrotum or labia. When the sick child is quiet or sleeping, it flickers. The mass is formed by the prolapse of organs in the abdominal cavity to the hernia bag. Most of the prolapsed organs are small intestine. Therefore, it feels soft to the touch. When it goes back, it is often accompanied by grunting murmurs. Other organs such as large intestine, appendix and omentum may also prolapse. In women, ovarian prolapse is more common, so it is often felt as big as thumb, hard and most of them have tenderness.

In addition to seeing or touching the mass, some children will have constipation, loss of appetite, vomiting and other phenomena, and some may become easy to cry, uneasy and so on. Too large a scrotal hernia can cause inconvenience.

matters needing attention

Inguinal hernia is a kind of hernia, which is very harmful to our health, so once we find that we have inguinal hernia, we must seek medical treatment in time, and pay attention to all aspects during the treatment.