Symptoms of umbilical hernia in children

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What symptom can child suffer from umbilical hernia have? Umbilical hernia is a common disease in children. If it is not treated for a long time after the illness, it is likely to bring harm to children's health. We should know more about the symptoms of the disease, so that we can find the disease as soon as possible. Today, let's learn about the symptoms of umbilical hernia in children.

Symptoms of umbilical hernia in children

When a baby suffers from umbilical hernia, a spherical or hemispherical reducible mass can be seen in the umbilicus. Like other children's hernias, the mass in the umbilicus will disappear when the baby is lying flat and quiet. When the baby's abdominal pressure increases due to exertion, crying, coughing and standing up, the mass appears. The mass is 3-4cm higher than the umbilicus, and the skin surface is bright, It looks like it's going to break.

Parents should not be too afraid, as long as you use your hand to gently press the hernia content into the abdominal cavity, and you can hear the sound of gurgling water, or you can touch the patent umbilical ring. Sometimes the baby with umbilical hernia will have vomiting, loss of appetite and other phenomena, which requires parents to do a good job in nursing the baby with umbilical hernia.

Baby navel protrusion, and sometimes big and sometimes small, especially when the baby is crying, umbilical protrusion is more obvious, with the hand can also hear the small intestine "Goo Goo" the sound of water, which is called umbilical hernia in medicine, is a common congenital developmental defect of newborn. Female babies are more likely to have umbilical hernia than male babies. Generally speaking, premature babies are more likely to have umbilical hernia than full-term babies because of their weak physical development.

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We need to know that in case of children's tumor, we must pay attention to it and take the child to treat the disease as soon as possible. In this way, the disease can be cured as soon as possible. In this way, the baby can recover as soon as possible.