Patient's question:
Doctor, I'm sorry to bother you. I'm very happy to be a first-time dad, but I don't know what's wrong with the baby. My 40-day-old baby has a groin hernia, and he hasn't had a bowel movement for two days. What should I do? The child is experiencing this again, and I'm really anxious. But I don't know what to do either, so I can only come and ask the doctor.Doctor's answer:
Hernia is one of the most common general surgical diseases in clinical diagnosis. Since children under two years old may have the possibility of spontaneous healing, hernias in children under two can be treated conservatively using external hernia belts or methods to prevent severe crying. According to your description, the baby is only 40 days old and hasn't had a bowel movement for two days. It is considered to be accompanied by intestinal obstruction, possibly due to intestinal incarceration or strangulation. In this case, the intestinal tube should be first reduced, and then treated conservatively with an external hernia belt.