Patient's question:
My baby is almost one year old this year. Recently, he hasn't been feeling well. When I took him to the town for a check-up, they said he has hydrocele. I'm very worried about my baby's health. So now, I want to ask when should the hydrocele be treated?Doctor's answer:
Intestinal gas in infants is one of the most common diseases in pediatric surgery and inguinal hernia surgery. It mainly includes congenital inguinal hernia and umbilical hernia. The main cause of infant hernia is congenital factors. Inguinal hernia is mainly caused by the failure of the processus vaginalis to close. Umbilical hernia is due to the failure to close the umbilical cord in a timely manner. Prematurity and low birth weight infants are caused by incomplete growth and development at birth. Any person over one year old who has not improved needs surgical treatment. Any surgery and anesthesia has its own risks. They need to go to pediatric surgery for face-to-face examination and evaluation preparation. Palpation, color Doppler ultrasound, blood routine electrocardiogram, chest X-ray examination, etc. To avoid respiratory tract infection, hiatal ligation of the hernia sac needs to be performed under general anesthesia. Traditional surgery or laparoscopic surgery can be used. Timely dressing change to avoid infection.