The umbilical hernia is the weakness of the wall around the navel, leading to the emergence of fatty tissue of the abdomen in the shape of a small ball. Hernia appears largely in children, but it may occur in a few cases in adults and affects men and women.
The hernia affects the intestine and when the size of the hernia gets bigger, it becomes a danger to the intestine, which could makes it lose its function, and the hernia works to weaken the abdominal wall, so some cases requires surgical intervention to eliminate it.
Causes of umbilical hernia:
Some of the main reasons why adults develop umbilical hernia:
- Pregnancy and childbirth.
- The presence of fluids in the abdominal cavity.
- Dialysis operations.
- The presence of previous surgical intervention in the abdomen.
Symptoms of umbilical hernia:
The symptoms are somewhat similar, but their effects on infants are obvious.
- Severe pain.
- Vomiting.
- Swelling and discoloration of the surrounding area.
- It makes the baby cry all the time especially newborns.
How to treat the umbilical hernia?
- In the case of umbilical hernia the treatment is the only solution that prevents the complications and symptoms, and it prevents damage to the intestines and abdominal wall, and the treatment is to hide the hernia by performing appropriate surgical that eliminate the it.
