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Children inguinal hernia

Children inguinal hernia

Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 08/12/2021

Infant inguinal hernia is mainly a congenital disease that may occur during childhood, adolescence and even into adulthood. The main symptom is the appearance of a lump or bulge in the inguinal canal and is only surgical treatment, so the effects of pills and ointments are not effective

Dr. José Manuel Ruano Aguilar

inguinal hernias Infant inguinal hernia is the ductus vaginal peritoneum through the inguinal canal, what does this mean? means that a part of the peritoneum, which is the bag that lines the intestine, exits through the groin through a natural canal. In children there from the embryonic period and through the conduit can pass the intestine, or can pass only liquid or it may be both, and can give an acute pain in the abdomen, in some cases this condition occurs in both men and women and can be diagnosed from including intrauterine life; we can diagnose in some children so small as newborns, but can occur at any age of life, this means that the same thing can happen to a newborn child to an old man of 80 years.

varied causes

The causes an inguinal hernia are varied, there are basically 3 types of inguinal hernia, one is the inguinal children called indirect and that is because the opening to the abdomen with the groin was not closed, these hernias are called congenital, 90% of hernias of children correspond to these congenital hernias or birth, not necessarily occur at the time of birth but develop them in the first years of life, or even in the time of adolescence, these hernias are from birth, unlike what happens in adults, where hernias are called direct hernias, go through another hole, this hole is caused by weakness of the muscle wall of the abdomen above, through this hole can bulge that regular content and evidence as if it were an abdominal mass, but at a different site does not run through the groin but climbs above the groin and is manifested in this way directly, this is called a direct hernia. In other rare cases can occur through another hole which is the femoral hole, through which flows the femoral artery and through that hole get the hernia and cause what is called a femoral hernia, but the issue we are talking about, hernias of children, virtually all are congenital, meaning they are born with them.

Appearance of a small lump or bump, main symptom

Symptoms of inguinal hernias in children are varied, the pivot symptom is the appearance of a small lump of a bump, or a volume increase in the inguinal canal What does this mean? mom is usually diagnosing your child because it has a volume increase in the inguinal canal, it can be painful or painless, most of the time do not hurt, only have the appearance of this small bulge in the groin area and this corresponds to an inguinal hernia. In some cases hernias may have intestinal content or in the case of girls can be trapped inside a trunk or an ovary and then gives painful symptoms.

Only surgical treatment

Inguinal hernias are always treated with surgery, unfortunately there is no magic ointment, a pill or a medication that serves to remove an inguinal hernia. Inguinal hernia, being an anatomical defect, you have to fix that hole having abnormal and put a suture knots to meet the edges that cause it, so that then the hernia surgery must be removed, everything else useless.

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