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Digestive & GastrointestinalMild
Umbilical Hernia
General Surgery · Digestive & Gastrointestinal
Mild
Severity
Common in infants (self-resolving in most cases) and moderately common in adults, particularly those who are overweight or have had multiple pregnancies
Prevalence
No
Contagious
General Surgery
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💊Treatment Options
- 1In infants
- 2most umbilical hernias close spontaneously by age four or five and only require surgical repair if they persist beyond this age or grow large. In adults
- 3surgical repair with mesh reinforcement is generally recommended
- 4especially for larger or symptomatic hernias
- 5to prevent complications such as incarceration. Emergency surgery is required if the hernia becomes strangulated
- 6cutting off blood supply to trapped tissue.
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