Be careful with inguinal hernia in children

Six-month-old baby H of Quang Binh repeatedly cried and quit breastfeeding, the family took me to Vietnam - Cuba Friendship Hospital for treatment.

Here, doctors have diagnosed a baby with a hernia, a large block of hernia and a rash that causes the baby's left ovary to be necrotic and must be removed to preserve the life of the baby. .

Before that, when a newly sick baby found out that baby H had a small bulge, but the subjective family did not let the baby go to the doctor for examination, only until H's illness was too heavy for the new family. It was too late for me to see the doctor.

According to Dr. Le Manh Ha who treated H baby at Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital, sharing 'Baby H is an extremely unfortunate case because the baby who came to the hospital too long when the hernia inserts causing Ovarian necrosis and severe ovaries cause removal of the baby's ovaries'

According to experts warning of inguinal hernia

This is a congenital disease that accounts for 0.8 - 4.4% of the pathology in children. Especially in premature babies the frequency is even higher, up to 30% depending on the gestational age, the disease may be different. This disease can be seen in both sexes, but boys have 3-10 times higher incidence of girls.

If timely detection of the disease may not cause dangerous complications for the child, but if the subjective parents leave serious consequences

The initial sign of the disease is the appearance of a scrotum inguinal block in boys and the near-lipo region in girls. This bulge usually appears larger when the baby cries, pushing the bowel.

When parents touch the baby's affected area, they will feel pain and discomfort, with babies who are unable to speak, there is uneasiness, crying and crying (with older children) and breast-feeding and vomiting.