Health is truly the most important asset we have. No matter how busy life gets or how many responsibilities pile up, health is something we cannot afford to compromise. Yet, even with all the healthy choices we try to make, certain conditions have a way of slipping past our control.
Hernias are a perfect example. They don’t discriminate—babies, adults, the elderly, anyone can develop one. Some people are born with structural weaknesses, while others acquire them over years of strain, coughing, lifting, or even after previous surgeries.
Risk factors are wide-ranging: age, gender, family history, obesity, chronic straining—the list goes on. Studies suggest that more than a million people in India develop a hernia each year, which tells you how common this issue truly is.
A hernia essentially occurs when a small portion of tissue from inside the abdomen pushes through a weak spot in the abdominal wall. About 75 per cent of these occur in the inguinal canal, the area where the abdomen meets the thigh.
Men are 25 times more likely than women to develop an inguinal hernia, and sometimes the bulge may even extend into the scrotum. Other types—femoral, umbilical, epigastric—can affect both men and women, though not always with the same warning signs. And that’s where things get interesting. Let us find out from Dr Amita Jain, a senior general and laparoscopic surgeon and one of the best hernia specialists in Delhi and India, how the symptoms of hernia vary between women and men....
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