The secret hernia is the weakness of the wall surrounding the navel for many reasons, leading to the emergence of part of the tissues of the fat cells of the abdomen and form like a ball, the hernia occurs in infants after birth and may be present before birth and occurs in adults as well as women and men.
A secret hernia may develop if a hysterectomy is not performed, leading to a large hernia, an enlarged part of the intestines outside the hernia, loss of normal function, death and suffocation. This is a rare case, but if it occurs, it requires a large operation to cut the abdomen, repair the hernia and cut the choked intestine and sew it again .
The secret hernia usually occurs in children, adolescents and infants. There is no clear cause for the occurrence of a secret hernia prior to birth. However, it may be a congenital defect and may increase after childbirth from frequent child agitation or crying. In adults, their secret hernia is acquired due to several factors such as excessive weight Or the presence of fluids stored in the abdomen as a result of some diseases, or lifting heavy weights and a great effort, and there are some people have a hernia secretion of birth and the discovery of a person only some of the time due to the lifting of something heavy or similar, as for the umbilical hernia may result from women carrying weights Heavy Duty Physical ability or because of pregnancy and the pressure on the stomach wall.
The hernia secretion may be accompanied by a feeling of heaviness on the abdomen and the pain becomes more acute with the development of the hernia and expansion without repair, the hernia increases during the exertion of muscle and when carrying heavy weights and when coughing and nervousness or excessive crying in children and infants.
The secret hernia is usually diagnosed by a clinical examination and the doctor can easily distinguish it. There is no need for the imaging sections to know the location and size of the hernia. The repair of the hernia is one of the simplest procedures where the patient can go out on the same day and practice his daily life. The patient to rest until the wound heals and is not exposed to any infections and the person should not do any muscle effort so as not to lead to the deterioration of his health.
The hysterectomy is performed by a specialist surgeon, who inserts the external part of the hernia and sews it and sets up a network to increase the strength of the hernia and not to relapse in the future. The operation is performed with complete or local anesthesia according to the patient’s wishes.
After the procedure, the doctor may prescribe antibiotics for the patient and painkillers for at least ten days, and then he or she will again reveal the location of the wound to ensure that it is intact and that there is no type of infection.
It should be noted that an important point spread to many people is the placement of patches and pressure on the navel of the child with an amputation thinking that this patch is enough to fix the matter, but doing this work makes things worse and increases the hernia and makes the intestine lazy and do not work fully.