| When you hear the words “spilling your guts” | | | | Traditional Repair Surgery |
| what come to mind? Probably not a lot. But let me tell | | | | Traditional hernia repair surgery is when the surgeon |
| you what that makes be think about - abdominal hernia | | | | will make an incision in the wall of the abdomen close |
| - maybe I am over doing that expression but it seems | | | | to the hernia. They will move the hernia back into the |
| to fit. | | | | abdomen and close it while repairing and making the |
| An abdominal hernia is caused when the fatty tissue | | | | damaged part of the abdominal wall even stronger. |
| or an organ will push the lining on the inside of the | | | | Hernia Repair Surgery |
| abdominal wall through a weakened part in the | | | | This is the most effective method of treatment that |
| abdominal muscles. The area can be weakened due | | | | doctors will prescribe for patients. There are risks still |
| to age, birth, or past surgical incisions. | | | | involved in this surgery as with any surgery. However, |
| The bulge that it creates will become very noticeable | | | | if the surgery is successful you will have no more pain |
| and can hold tissue, fat, and intestines. Doctors do | | | | and discomfort from the hernia. |
| have the ability to reduce the bulge by pushing the | | | | Laparoscopy |
| tissue or fat back into the abdominal cavity that it | | | | During laparoscopy a fiber optic viewing tube and |
| came from. If successful the hernia will become flat | | | | other instruments are used to help repair the hernia. |
| and will disappear all together. | | | | During this procedure you will not have to worry about |
| Being able to reduce it will depend on how far it is | | | | a large surgical incision being made. You will recover |
| sticking through the abdominal wall and how well the | | | | faster than if you were to use surgery. |
| abdominal muscles are holding it in. If the hernia is not | | | | Supportive Truss |
| able to be reduced they will repair it with surgery. | | | | There is a special garment that is used that helps to |
| Without surgery the hernia can lose its supply of blood | | | | reduce the symptoms and causes of a hernia. This is |
| and die because of strangulation. Strangulation from an | | | | called a truss. It is an elastic brief or band that will hold |
| intestine can block digestions, cause immense pain, and | | | | the hernia into the abdomen and keep it flat. While this |
| gangrene in the area of the intestine. Emergency | | | | can keep the hernia from sticking out it will not cure it. |
| surgery will help to repair it. | | | | |