Umbilical hernia patch surgery in adults may recur more than a year later.
The causes of umbilical hernia in adults are mostly acquired factors, such as trauma, pregnancy, ascites and other diseases. There is also the possibility of recurrence after surgery, especially in some patients, due to constipation, prostate hypertrophy, chronic bronchitis and other diseases, with the increase in age will make the abdominal pressure increases, thus making the abdominal muscles become weak, there may be recurrence.
The main way to prevent the recurrence of adult umbilical hernia is to avoid and control the long-term cause of increased intra-abdominal pressure, need to control constipation, treatment of prostate hypertrophy, meet bronchitis, hepatitis cirrhosis and other diseases, as well as the abdominal wall overstretching of the various initiating or triggering factors, such as moderate increase in abdominal muscle exercise.