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