How to treat infant umbilical hernia?

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Umbilical hernia is a common disease of newborns. Compared with inguinal hernia, umbilical hernia is a relatively mild disease. Umbilical hernia in children is one of the most easy to treat hernias. Please don't worry. As long as you treat it seriously, it will be cured. With the development of science and technology, there are many ways to treat umbilical hernia, Here I know several better methods for the treatment of umbilical hernia. Let's share the treatment of infant umbilical hernia.

How to treat infant umbilical hernia?

First: adhesive tape paste method: can be slightly larger than the navel ring coins, buttons or logs wrapped with gauze, pressure on the navel ring, and then fixed with wide adhesive tape. The width of the adhesive tape is 5cm. Gauze can be placed inside the back of the adhesive tape to avoid damaging the skin. During the operation, the contents of the hernia should be returned to the abdominal cavity to make the hernia sac empty and avoid bulging out of the contents of the hernia, so as to facilitate the closure of the umbilical foramen. Generally, it should be replaced once every 1-2 weeks, and can be applied continuously for 3-6 months. Attention should be paid to the care of local skin, and the umbilical hole should be narrowed to gradually heal.

Second: compression method: use the appropriate length of 9 ~ 10cm wide elastic band to sew into a circle; Make the baby lie flat and return the umbilical hernia; Align the convex surface of the cotton ball (the same size as the hernia) or half a ping-pong ball with the umbilical hernia and fix it with an elastic ring.

Third: if children's hernia is not treated in time, the hernia sac will continue to increase, it is likely to lead to ovarian infarction after growing up, or lead to testicular atrophy in boys, so it should be treated in time. When it is found that there is a child hernia, surgery can be used in general.

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Hernia this disease is best early detection and early treatment, if you can find a child hernia within one time, you can carry out conservative treatment, conservative treatment is also more beneficial to the recovery of children.