Last week, Shanghai hands wearing nine rings of the “Lord of the Rings Auntie” seven rings embedded in the flesh, became the opposite of the netizen, and finally in the hospital used the fire department’s tools to remove the ring, the finger is naturally disastrous, well in the hospital and firefighters to give force, Auntie’s finger did not occur and amputation of necrosis, but also is unfortunate in the luck of the draw! The ring is not a common example, but it’s a good thing that it’s not. The ring example is not common, but you do hear about it every few years. But for hernia surgeons, similar situations happen to hernia patients every month. This is because hernia is a common and frequent disease (commonly known as small bowel gas) with a lifetime probability of about 3% for each individual based on an average life expectancy of 75-80 years statistically. Hernia is the essence of the abdominal wall of the tendon membrane layer has a defect weak, forming a “hole”, so when people stand up after the stomach of the intestinal tubes and other intestinal tubes will fall out through this “hole”, in the surface of the body to form a “drum bag “Lumps” are formed on the surface of the body. This “hole” is actually similar to a ring, which is medically known as a “hernia ring”. Ring embedded in the flesh of the finger is usually two cases, one is the ring accidentally worn to the thick finger, such as the original ring finger ring worn to the middle finger or thumb, the results of the set up, but never take it down; another situation is that the ring did not move the position, but the finger due to become fat or injured swollen and ultimately become thick, “Ring King Auntie “This is the case. But the end result of both cases is that the blood supply of the finger has problems, if not in time to use a chainsaw to cut the ring to make the finger off, and eventually the finger will be necrosis and forced amputation. A similar situation can occur with hernias, which are medically referred to as “incarcerated”, commonly known as “stuck”, and are the most common fatal complication of hernias. In terms of the causes of entrapment, the first ring-like condition is more common, in which the intestinal tubes (like fingers) are able to move freely in and out of the “hole” in the abdominal wall (= ring), but due to exertion, holding the bowels, sneezing, etc. more intestinal tubes in the abdominal cavity are squeezed out and get stuck in the opening of the ring. The latter case occurs mainly in those patients with a long history of hernia, where the intestinal tubes have always fallen out, except that they are not stuck there at the opening, but when certain factors such as intestinal adhesions, diarrhea, etc. occur, the section of intestinal tubes passing through the opening of the ring becomes thicker, just as the finger of Auntie King of the Rings has become thicker. Just like the ring can not come off embedded in the flesh is the same, embedded in addition to the patient to occur in abdominal pain, lump pain, 6 hours later the intestinal tube has a high probability of necrosis. Finger necrosis will be disabled but most likely will not kill, however, once the intestinal necrosis and then the next is intestinal perforation, peritonitis, we all know that this is life-threatening! The ring was embedded in the flesh, the doctor and the fireman used a chainsaw to cut the ring to save the finger of the aunt, the hernia occurred “incarcerated” the doctor is also through a similar method to solve, but this may be a small operation, the doctor is also through the cut “hernia ring” so that the hernia ring The doctor also cuts through the “hernia ring” to widen the opening to loosen the tight bowel, is not as “painful” as the loss of the ring, but this is at the expense of destroying the normal tissues of the abdominal wall. If the “incarceration” time is short, the intestinal tube has not been necrotic that surgery is relatively small. But once the intestinal tube has been necrotic, the doctor can only remove the necrotic intestinal tube, and then connect the two ends of the healthy intestinal tube, to save the life before; as for the hernia hole, it will be placed in half a year later to carry out a second operation to repair it. In fact, in most cases, hernia surgery in the surgeon are safe and reliable small surgery, hospitalization time is very short, the impact on life and work are not big. However, there are always some patients who are stubborn and believe that they should not be operated on until acute complications occur, and many of them even need two surgeries to solve the problem, which is not worth the loss! The story of the Lord of the Rings’ aunt is now at an end, but I always have a vague feeling that similar things will happen again. Here I still sincerely advise those hernia patients, before the occurrence of incarceration of such serious complications as early and timely treatment, there is no need to let similar stories repeated, do not always feel that they are the lucky one, really every year there are patients because of incarceration of hernia and lost their lives!!!!