Jiang old man two weeks ago when bathing inadvertently found an egg-sized soft lump in the lower right abdomen, not painful, slightly bloated feeling, but the next day woke up lump but disappeared, Jiang old man felt very strange. Later, this lump is like playing hide-and-seek with Jiang Laobao, lying in bed when you want to find it can not be touched, but the lump appears again, and the lump appears when the volume is getting bigger and bigger, the feeling of soreness and swelling is also becoming more and more obvious. This makes Jiang old man’s heart hang up, think about a lump is not a tumor or something bad. The doctor asked him about his condition and gave him a physical examination, telling him that he had a “hernia”, commonly known as “small intestine gas”. He said the word “hernia” looked quite similar to the word “cancer”, so was it also a bad disease. The doctor said with a smile that although the two words are only three mouths apart, they are worlds apart in nature. Cancer is a malignant tumor that turns into a lump and generally does not go away, while hernia is a benign disease that is caused by a weakness in the abdominal wall and the organs in the abdominal cavity, such as the small intestine, protrude through this area and form a lump outside the abdominal wall. There are many types of hernias, including inguinal hernia, umbilical hernia, incisional hernia, white line hernia and so on. Jiang has the most common type of “small intestine hernia”, which occurs in the inguinal region between the lower abdomen and the thigh, and is scientifically called inguinal hernia. Inguinal hernia is one of the four most common surgical diseases, with a lifetime probability of about 3-5% for each person based on an average life expectancy of 80 years, and is very common in elderly men like Jiang Laobu because the incidence is more than ten times higher in men than in women. Jiang’s symptoms are in fact the most characteristic clinical manifestation of inguinal hernia – the sporadic lump. The lump in the groin appears when standing or exerting oneself, and it protrudes more obviously when exerting oneself, while it disappears on its own after lying down. This is because the pathological basis of “hernia” is a weak defect in the abdominal wall, just like a hole in a cotton jacket where the cotton can fall out, and the intestines in the stomach can move in and out with the change of body position by gravity. Therefore, if you feel an occasional lump in your groin, you should think of a “hernia” or “small intestine gas” and go to the hospital in time to see a hernia surgeon! Please do not reproduce this article without authorization.