How to treat pediatric hernia and how to treat pediatric hernia

Pediatric hernias are common in infants and young children, and are more common in men and premature births. There are many causes of hernia in children, mainly including congenital factors and acquired factors, acquired factors include coughing, sneezing, crying or defecation force, abdominal fat, etc. Pediatric hernia will cause greater harm to the growth and development of young children, which leads to parents of children who are very anxious after learning that their children have pediatric hernia, and do not know how to deal with it.

As a result, parents are under great physical and mental pressure, and sometimes even take some detours. But in fact, although pediatric hernia is more harmful, it is not a thorny clinical problem.

The child's future has an impact. Therefore, parents do not need to panic, the following will tell you what to do if your child has a hernia.

**What to do before?

After your child has a hernia, you should first pay attention not to make your child cry and avoid strenuous exercise to prevent the hernia from getting worse. If it is an inguinal hernia, pay attention to telling the child to lie down more often to avoid the hernia block coming out.

Umbilical hernias and inguinal hernias in newborns**.

For neonatal umbilical hernias, the vast majority of them can heal spontaneously before the age of 2 years without the need for surgery**. For neonatal inguinal hernia, surgery is not necessary if it is not incarcerated**, but if incarceration occurs, immediate medical attention is required, and if it can be reduced manually, it is actively reduced, and surgery is performed 3 days after reduction**. For children who are unable to reduce, prompt emergency surgery**** is required.

Pediatric hernia bands.

If your child has a reversible hernia, it is recommended to try the smart brand hernia belt, I heard that it works.

If the pediatric hernia is not serious, it is better to be conservative, stick a hernia patch, and wear a hernia belt, and it can be cured in two or three courses at most, and the flower cloth is 1000 yuan.

If it is severe and falls off frequently, then it is better to have surgery. The cost of surgery is about 3,000 yuan (traditional surgery), and if laparoscopy is used, it will cost 4,000-5,000 yuan. If imported patches are used, the maximum is 4,000 yuan for one side and 5,000 yuan for both sides.

After more than 6 months, you can go to Jingtian Hospital for minimally invasive surgery**.

Under 2 years of age is recommended to be conservative**.

Pediatric hernia is one of the most common diseases in pediatric surgery, mainly including congenital inguinal hernia and umbilical hernia. It mainly includes two categories, which are as follows:

Clause. 1. Conservative**, generally children within one year old have the possibility of self-healing, so conservative ** can be taken. If there is a large hernia or a hernia that protrudes more frequently, the hernia belt can be used for local compression, the purpose of which is to avoid the protrusion of the hernia contents, and at the same time try to avoid crying, coughing, constipation and other conditions that cause increased intra-abdominal pressure.

If the child does not stop crying and the hernia does not retract, it indicates that hernia incarceration may have occurred, and the child should go to the pediatric emergency department in time.

Clause. 2. Surgery**, it is usually believed that those who cannot heal on their own with inguinal hernia over one year old should undergo surgery**, but age is not an absolute factor, if the child with repeated incarceration or hernia is very large within one year old, surgery can also be performed**, which requires preoperative evaluation by a pediatric surgeon to decide whether the operation ** or conservative**.