As inguinal hernia is a common disease in children and the elderly, the timing of surgery is a common problem for parents and families. When is the best time to operate? I would like to briefly introduce it to the families of the patients. With the rapid development of medicine, especially the inguinal hernia patch tension-free repair into China, inguinal hernia surgical treatment, in China has been unprecedented progress. Surgery, the only means of curing inguinal hernia, is also gradually recognized by the majority of patients. Adult inguinal hernia, most of which occurs in the elderly, because surgery is the only cure, so the timing of surgery is determined: as long as you can tolerate surgery, you should be treated as early as possible. Because once the inguinal hernia occurs, the symptoms will gradually aggravate, in the elderly population, when the cardiopulmonary function can tolerate the operation, and give up the surgical treatment, once the cardiopulmonary function is poor, the condition is further aggravated, or even incarcerated, the risk of surgery will be quite large. Children’s inguinal hernia is a special group, because a very small number of children have the possibility of self-healing within 1 year of age, so some parents will be lucky, or even delay the child’s condition. Personally, I suggest that the timing of surgery for inguinal hernia in children is: children over 1 year of age, timely choice of surgical treatment. Because the child’s hernia surgery is not to use patch treatment, just do hernia sac high ligation, so 1-9 years of age timely choice of surgery, will greatly reduce the recurrence rate, especially the hernia onset time is short, the mass is not too big children, because of the abdominal wall defect is small, the recurrence rate is even lower. For children under 1 year of age with large hernias and recurrent incarcerated hernias, it is important to choose a specialist to perform surgery in a timely manner so as not to jeopardize the child’s fertility and life. Inguinal hernias in adolescents and unmarried, childless people are often the most problematic stage for specialists. Because of this stage, children’s surgical methods and the elderly tension-free (polypropylene patch) can not be selected, so the only choice is to choose the traditional surgical repair or fully absorbent patch repair. The former has a slightly higher surgical recurrence rate, postoperative pain you, obviously, and the latter patch is too expensive, all of which are its drawbacks. However, early surgical treatment is still recommended for patients with inguinal hernia at this stage.