What should I do if my child has an incarcerated hernia?

When parents encounter hernia in their children, they are not particularly nervous. However, once the hernia becomes incarcerated, it needs timely treatment. Because when a child has hernia incarceration, he or she will feel very painful, and basically cannot move much, or even the slightest movement will cause pain. So what problems will children have when their hernia is incarcerated?

Incarcerated hernia in children is relatively difficult to cure, so be sure not to fall into misunderstandings during treatment. First of all, parents do not have enough knowledge about pediatric hernia and fail to pay enough attention to it. They think that hernia goes in and out and does not affect eating and drinking, so it is okay, which causes delayed treatment for children. Some parents believe that hernia will heal on its own and do not take their children's hernia seriously at all, thinking it is not a big deal. Secondly, after discovering that a child has a hernia, people blindly give the child medicine or injections. Experts point out that drug treatment is basically ineffective for hernia. First, drug treatment of pediatric hernia cannot act on the lesion site and cannot achieve the therapeutic effect, thus delaying the best time for hernia treatment. Second, the drug itself is toxic. As the saying goes, "all medicines are three-point poison", so it is not recommended.

Hernia first affects the patient's digestive system, resulting in symptoms such as lower abdominal distension, bloating, abdominal pain, constipation, poor nutrient absorption, fatigue and physical deterioration. Because the groin is adjacent to the urinary and reproductive systems, elderly patients are more likely to suffer from bladder or prostate diseases such as frequent urination, urgency, and nocturia; children may suffer from the normal development of the testicles due to the squeezing of hernias. At this time, it is important to pay attention to giving your child surgical treatment in a timely manner.

Therefore, when a child develops incarcerated hernia, it is important to provide timely treatment, and any uncomfortable complications the child may experience should be relieved through dietary measures. Otherwise it will be very detrimental to the child’s daily life and health, and they need to pay attention to maintaining good living habits.