Pediatric inguinal hernia: surgery can be withheld within one year of age, and with the gradual strengthening of the abdominal muscles of the growing torso, the hernia may disappear on its own. They can be treated with cotton thread girdles or bandages. Except for a few special cases, inguinal hernias generally require early surgery. There are very many surgical approaches to inguinal hernia, and traditional hernia repair is now less commonly used in clinical practice. In adults, there is a consensus to perform tension-free repair with an artificial hernia patch, depending on which patch is used, what anesthesia is used and what specific procedure is performed. Tension-free hernia repair is mainly divided into open surgery and trans-laparoscopic surgery. Open surgery mostly uses epidural anesthesia, which simply means anesthesia from the waist; some surgeons also use local anesthesia and small incisions. Trans-laparoscopic surgery: Mostly general anesthesia is used.