What are the symptoms of scrotal hernia in children?

Sometimes parents will suddenly find that their son's scrotum is bulging and looks particularly serious. Especially during the neonatal period. At this time, it is mainly because the child has scrotal hernia. So why do children have scrotal hernia problems? What are the symptoms of scrotal hernia in children? Let’s look at this issue together today.

During fetal development, a boy's testicles develop in the abdomen, and then before birth, a pair of testicles descend into the scrotum through a canal in the tissue between the groin and the abdomen (called the inguinal canal).

In girls, the ovaries also descend through the inguinal canal into the pelvic cavity (pelvis). Then the passage through the abdominal wall in the baby's body should close.

If your baby is a boy, after suffering from inguinal hernia, you will find a hard oval mass in the baby's groin area or scrotum, about the size of your thumb. But you may not notice the lump until weeks or even months after your baby is born.

The mass may bulge out when the baby is very active or crying (increasing the intra-abdominal pressure), and then when the baby calms down, the mass will return to the abdominal cavity and disappear.

It's important to note that inguinal hernias are much less common in girls than in boys, but they do occur occasionally. In girls, an inguinal hernia occurs when the intestine pushes through the abdominal wall and into the baby's groin area and sometimes into the labia (the soft skin at the opening of the vagina). The protrusion on your baby's body due to an inguinal hernia may feel like a hard, oval-shaped lump.

Therefore, even girls need to pay attention to whether they have a problem with inguinal hernia. If this problem occurs, it needs to be treated in time. Girls usually have a bulge at the belly button. In addition to this symptom, boys will also experience symptoms in the scrotum area.