Do you know about “inguinal hernia”? Inguinal hernia is the most common disease in general surgery, with a majority of middle-aged and elderly people. Many people have some knowledge about various types of hernias, but they may not have a comprehensive understanding of how to treat them properly. What is a hernia? A hernia is formed when an organ or tissue in the body leaves its normal site and enters another site through a congenital or acquired weak point, defect or orifice. Once a hernia occurs in an adult, it is difficult to heal itself with conservative treatment. If left untreated, the hernia mass will gradually increase in size, which will aggravate the damage to the abdominal wall and affect the workforce. Most of them require surgery, and we advocate early surgical treatment. Many commercially available advertisements claim that no incision, no surgery, drug injection therapy, drug patching of the belly button, etc. are unscientific and unsafe, and the recurrence rate is extremely high. Moreover, the formation of adhesions and hard masses in the inguinal region after drug injection changes the original tissue anatomy, making subsequent surgery extremely difficult and inconvenient. Treatment of hernias Children under 2 years of age can be treated with a hernia belt and may be cured, while after 2 years of age, surgery is usually required to perform a high ligation of the hernia sac. In adults, repair surgery is used: classical inguinal repair, hernioplasty, tension-free hernia repair (repair with artificial material patches), and minimally invasive transabdominal or extraperitoneal laparoscopic surgery. There is a wide range of surgical treatment methods, among which the widely recognized treatment method is inguinal hernia repair with artificial material patch, which is internationally recognized as the gold standard in the treatment of inguinal hernia. Its advantages are very prominent, such as simple and safe surgery, little damage, few adverse reactions, light postoperative pain, fast postoperative recovery, and low recurrence rate (1%-1‰) after surgery, while the recurrence rate of conventional surgery is about 10%, and the surgery mostly requires patch repair after recurrence. How to prevent the occurrence of hernia To know how to prevent it, we must first know how the hernia occurs, and two points are very important. 1, weakening of the abdominal wall. 2, the abdominal cavity pressure is increased. Therefore, you should exercise properly to enhance the elasticity of abdominal wall muscles and actively treat diseases related to increased abdominal pressure, such as liver preservation and diuretic treatment after the production of ascites in cirrhosis, in order to facilitate the reduction or elimination of ascites. Chronic bronchitis should be treated systematically to reduce the increased abdominal pressure caused by coughing. Those who have difficulty in urination should be checked for prostatic hyperplasia and the obstruction should be relieved by surgery (minimally invasive technique: transurethral pneumoneurotomy). Elderly people with constipation symptoms should pay attention to dietary regulation to maintain regular bowel movements, and should be treated more actively if the slow output type obstruction is caused by intestinal occupational lesions or intestinal hypofunction. Once a hernia cannot be returned on its own, accompanied by pain and abdominal distension in the groin area, it is most likely to be an incarcerated hernia, which is caused by a sudden increase in abdominal pressure due to violent coughing, constipation, forceful defecation, lifting heavy objects, etc. The abdominal organs protrude into the hernia sac and become edematous due to tissue compression and cannot be returned. There are cases of ischemic necrosis of the intestinal canal in the abdomen due to delayed treatment after herniorrhaphy, resulting in resection of the necrotic canal, which increases the hospitalization cost, increases the infection rate, prolongs the hospitalization time, and has many potential complications after surgery, such as intestinal adhesions and intestinal obstruction, which decreases the quality of life, and because patch repair surgery can rarely be performed after intestinal necrosis due to increased local infection factors, the recurrence rate of hernia after surgery is higher, and most people need to Most people need to undergo patch repair again.