Inguinal Hernia occurs due to protrusion of abdominal content on inguinal area, causing swelling or bulge at groin area. Sometime the condition causes discomfort during coughing and can also lead to pain as intestine may get strangulated. Since the condition is caused due to tissue pushing towards the groin muscle, it is a common condition during pregnancy.
Inguinal Hernia can be painful, if you feel soreness and pain you must immediately visit a doctor, the condition is very common. About 27% of males and 3% female develop inguinal hernia or undergo inguinal hernia surgery each year.
Symptoms-
Symptom of inguinal hernia includes-
- Pain while coughing, bending, or lifting something heavy
- Feeling pressure or weakness in groin
- Having swelling around testicles
What Causes Inguinal Hernia?
Inguinal Hernia can be caused by various reasons among men and women. Since the condition causes the abdominal tissues to stretch towards groin area it is highly painful. There are many activities which can increase the chances of suffering from inguinal Hernias.
Activities includes risk-
- smoking
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- obesity
- pregnancy
- peritoneal dialysis
- collagen vascular disease
- previous open appendectomy
Recommendation: In case of pain, it is advisable to approach doctor as immediately as you can as it indicates intestine or testicle blood circulation is stopped in hernia which is alarming.
Diagnose
A specialist or a medical doctor will start by checking at your groin area for swelling or a bulge. Also, if you feel pain at lower abdomen or groin region you must not hesitate to discuss the problem with the doctor. Furthermore, doctor will ask you to stand and cough the process makes hernia diagnose easy.
If swelling can’t be detected by the doctor suggest you to have an abdominal ultrasound, CT scan and MRI.
Medical Tourism
In United States 60% of people receive surgery within 3 months, so at any top surgery hospital in Texas might have to go through long waiting lists.
Often the waiting lists and finding top surgeons in your region can cost you a lot. You can look for surgery in different countries as medical tourism is on the boom and you can have best surgeons around the globe. Also, surgeries in India and some other Asian countries will cost less.
Top countries to provide good medical treatment –
Poland – $1,600
United States – $2,700
Mexico – $3,000
Thailand – $3,200
India – $3,200
United Arab Emirates – $3,300
Germany – $3,900
Inguinal Hernia Treatment
The inguinal hernia can only be treated by surgery, although there is no rush to proceed for the surgery till intestine is not strangulated. Surgery is done in the case of strangulation of intestine, but many people will proceed with surgeries without strangulation to avoid any future complications.
Most of the inguinal hernia surgery Texas are done laparoscopically. The surgery proceeds with the single incision to the groin area, the laparoscopy requires a surgeon to have higher accuracy who can perform the surgery with small incision.
Recovery time is also very less but exercise should be avoided for 4 weeks from treatment, and driving should be resumed only after 2 weeks of the treatment.
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