Inguinal hernia is a common pediatric surgical disease.. Serious cases can lead to intestinal necrosis and even death. According to statistics, an average of 2 to 5% of children suffer from inguinal hernia, and premature babies as much as 20%, the rate for boys was nearly 5 times higher than girls. As for the causes of disease is due to the location of a congenital inguinal tube not properly closed, when the baby suffering from stomach disease pressure increases, the boy's small intestine, a girl's ovaries or the small intestine, have the chance to fall into the hernia sac, inguinal position that there is a sac-like objects such as lump protruding. When the babies cry, angry, coughing or exertion, the most easily to find the lump protruding capsule, which are due to stomach pressure, causing inguinal hernia.

If baby do suffer from inguinal hernia, parents should pay particularly attention to their baby will have a "clogged up" situation, which is the intestines and other organs of the entrance entwine with gas, if this situation is not dealt with immediately, it may cause life-threatening intestinal necrosis. In addition, the "clogged up" symptoms include blood circulation blocked which affecting blood supply, so that part will becomes red and swollen, this time due to pain baby will cry loudly, or may even causes vomiting situation. If the perceived seriousness of the case, parents must be take their baby to emergency surgery for treatment.

Surgery is the only treatment

Although inguinal hernia is very common, but there are no specific medical drug therapy, surgery to repair hernia is the only effective treatment. However, traditional surgery would leave visible scars in children. And now you can through the minimally invasive surgery to repair inguinal hernia, not only will the incision down to two millimeters apart, this can also reduce post-operative pain for patients, with addition this also can greatly shorten the recovery time, risk and significantly reduced recurrence rate for patients giving a better treatment options.