How to treat inguinal hernia

Except for a few special cases, inguinal hernias should generally be treated with surgery as soon as possible.

If an inguinal hernia is not treated in time, the hernia can gradually increase in size, aggravating the damage to the abdominal wall and affecting the patient's daily life and work; hiatal hernias are often incarcerated or strangulation and threaten the patient's life. Therefore, except for a few special circumstances, inguinal hernia generally should be early surgical treatment.

1. non-surgical treatment: infants and young children under the age of one year can not be operated temporarily. Because infants and young children with the body growth of abdominal muscles gradually strong, hernia has the possibility of disappearing on their own. Cotton thread ties or bandages can be used to hold down the deep ring of the inguinal canal, preventing the hernia from protruding and giving the developing abdominal muscles a chance to strengthen the abdominal wall.

2. Surgery: Surgery is the only reliable treatment for inguinal hernias in adults and is less likely to recur. Easily recurrent hernias can be treated with elective surgery, refractory hernias should be limited to short-term surgery, and incarcerated hernias and strangulated hernias must be treated with emergency surgery to avoid serious consequences. Surgical treatment is subdivided into traditional tissue-to-tissue tension suture repair and tension-free hernia repair techniques, which are now internationally recognized as tension-free hernia repair techniques, including open and laparoscopic procedures.