Symptoms of external abdominal hernia

summary

Abdominal external hernia is one of the most common diseases in abdominal surgery, in which the incidence of inguinal hernia is the highest, accounting for more than 90%, followed by femoral hernia, accounting for about 5%. The more common abdominal external hernias are incisional hernia, umbilical hernia, white line hernia and parastomal hernia. In addition, there are lumbar hernia and other rare hernia. Now let's talk about the symptoms of external abdominal hernia.

Symptoms of external abdominal hernia

First: chronic cough, frequent vomiting, constipation, anal prolapse, urethral stricture, phimosis, bladder stones, dysuria, abdominal surgery, trauma and other medical history, previous hernia incarceration history. Attention should be paid to abnormal abdominal swelling or depression, ascites, hepatosplenomegaly, and protruding mass when standing. The elderly should be examined for prostatic hypertrophy. The signs of diaphragmatic hernia include limited respiratory movement on one side of the chest, decreased breath sounds, full intercostals, and bowel sounds or water quaking sounds in the chest. Inguinal hernia should pay attention to the shape of the hernia and the size of the hernia ring. When standing or coughing, the contents fall into the scrotum.

Second: after high ligation of hernia sac in children, it is not necessary to shift spermatic cord. If you are bold and sensible, you should transfer the spermatic cord under the aponeurosis of the external oblique abdominis. The elderly must strengthen the repair of the posterior wall of the inguinal canal and transfer the spermatic cord to the subcutaneous area.

Third: if the hernia can be in the inguinal ligament above or below the incision surgery, must not hurt the hernia content, the hernia sac resection suture, to the inguinal ligament, lacunar ligament and pubic muscle fascia suture together. If there is a strangulated hernia, it is best to make an incision above the inguinal ligament.

matters needing attention

Within a week after the operation, you should eat some semi liquid food, such as porridge and so on. Don't eat hard, dry food, such as corn. After a week, you can eat ordinary food; Also pay attention to prevent wound infection, every night to use water to gently clean the wound.