What are the common causes of hernia in children?

Nowadays, more and more children may have pediatric hernia after birth. At this time, most parents will feel very anxious, but many parents will not understand the specific reasons while being anxious. This may prevent you from really solving the problem from the root. So if you want to know how to solve pediatric hernia, you should first understand the reasons, so that your child can get better faster.

Hernia is when part of the human body tissue or organ leaves its original location and enters another part through a gap, defect or weak part of the human body. Commonly known as "small intestinal gas", it includes umbilical hernia, direct inguinal hernia, indirect hernia, incisional hernia, surgical recurrent hernia, white line hernia, femoral hernia, etc. Hernia is mostly caused by coughing, sneezing, excessive force, abdominal fat, forceful defecation, pregnancy in women, excessive crying in children, etc.

Because boys' testicles descend to the scrotum through the inguinal canal before birth, the peritoneum moves downward to form the processus vaginalis. If the processus vaginalis has not closed after the baby is born, or has closed incompletely, it will become a larger cavity, and the contents of the abdominal cavity will protrude to the body surface, forming a hernia.

Because the right testicle descends slightly later than the left and the processus vaginalis is closed later, there are more cases of right inguinal hernias. Of course, girls may also develop hernias due to weak abdominal walls, but the incidence rate is relatively low.

In the early stages of pediatric hernia, the swelling may disappear when the child lies flat and quiet. As the intra-abdominal pressure continues to increase, the swelling may drop into the scrotum.

At this time, if the factors causing increased intra-abdominal pressure can be eliminated, and the child can be made to lie flat, or the swelling can be gently pushed toward the abdominal cavity, the swelling can return to the abdominal cavity through the channel through which the testicle descends, and the swelling disappears. This situation is called reducible hernia.

Now that you know the causes of pediatric hernia from the above explanation, you can try to avoid these things in the future, so that your child will not have pediatric hernia. This is very beneficial for regulating your child's body and will not let your child suffer from the pain of pediatric hernia.