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See book keywords and concepts | | COMPLICATIONS FROM SURGERY
Jonasson notes that hernia surgery can cause complications. "The main complication is that after having a hernia repaired, many men will have chronic groin pain that will last for years," she says.
"There are men who have had hernias for 40 years, and it doesn't bother them and they don't bother it," Jonasson says.
Dr. David R. Flum, an associate professor of surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, agrees that surgery is not always necessary. "There are tons of people who have hernias who don't even know they have them," he says. |
Tom Bohager
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HIATAL HERNIA
A hiatal hernia is the protrusion (or hernia) of the upper part of the stomach into the thorax through a tear, opening, or weakness (hiatus) in the diaphragm. The muscle at the end of the esophagus may be affected, which can cause acid reflux (regurgitation of acidic gastric juices into the esophagus). (See gastroesophageal reflux.) This reflux, in turn, may cause heartburn and belching that may be made worse by either bending or lying down. Very large hiatal hernias sometimes require surgical repair. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
See book keywords and concepts |  If you're not pregnant or are a man, a newly bulging belly button can signal an umbilical hernia, a condition in which part of the intestine protrudes through a hole or weakness in the abdominal wall. (When it occurs in the groin area, it's called an inguinal hernia.)
Umbilical hernias are very common in infancy but can occur during adulthood, often as a result of obesity, multiple pregnancies, heavy lifting, or even coughing. When the hernia can be pushed back in place by a doctor, it's usually a benign sign. |
Tom Bohager
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HIATAL HERNIA
A hiatal hernia is the protrusion (or hernia) of the upper part of the stomach into the thorax through a tear, opening, or weakness (hiatus) in the diaphragm. The muscle at the end of the esophagus may be affected, which can cause acid reflux (regurgitation of acidic gastric juices into the esophagus). (See gastroesophageal reflux.) This reflux, in turn, may cause heartburn and belching that may be made worse by either bending or lying down. Very large hiatal hernias sometimes require surgical repair. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  See Shingles
Hiatal hernia and Acid Reflux Disease
A person is said to have a hiatal hernia when part of the stomach protrudes, or herniates, through the opening of the diaphragm and into the chest cavity. While almost half of all Americans over the age of forty have this disorder, many of these people experience few, if any, symptoms. Hiatal hernias are generally not considered dangerous unless they produce persistent or severe symptoms.
The food you eat starts its digestive journey in the mouth and then slides down the esophagus, a long tube that leads to the stomach. |
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  She wants to know how big the hernia is. Apparently, if it isn't big enough, the insurer will not pay for having it fixed.
You should: a. Explain to her (patiently, now!) that (1) the size of hernias is variable, depending on whether the patient is lying down, standing up, or straining; (2) little hernias are more likely to strangulate than big ones; (3) anyway, this patient has a hiatal hernia, not an inguinal hernia—it is possible that the clerk might be able to understand the difference between the stomach bulging up into the chest and a lump in the groin. b. |
The Editors of FC&A
See book keywords and concepts | | CHAPTER 17 Hiatal hernia: helpers
& healers
What is a hiatal hernia? It's when your stomach pokes through a tear in your diaphragm, the sheet of muscle between your stomach and chest. The diaphragm can act like a vice around the top part of your stomach, holding digestive juices there longer than usual and bringing on heartburn and pain.
Who gets it? Hiatal hernia is common in people age 50 and older, even in those who are otherwise healthy.
What are the Symptoms? Sometimes there aren't any. |
John A. McDougall
See book keywords and concepts |  Hiatus (Hiatal) Hernia
The act of having a bowel movement raises the pressures in the abdominal cavity much higher than the pressures that are in the chest, pushing the stomach up into the chest cavity, creating a hiatus (hiatal) hernia. Half of people who have followed the Western diet for more than fifty years have some degree of hiatal hernia. The chest and the abdomen are separated anatomically by a large muscle used for breathing called the diaphragm. Three structures pass though the diaphragm—the aorta, vena cava, and esophagus. |
The Editors of FC&A
See book keywords and concepts | | Hiatal hernia is common in people age 50 and older, even in those who are otherwise healthy.
What are the Symptoms? Sometimes there aren't any. Otherwise, they may include:
• heartburn or a sour taste in your mouth
• bloating, belching, or vomiting
• discomfort or pain in your throat or stomach
Secret for preventing hiatal hernia
The late Dr. Denis Burkitt had it right over 20 years ago. Burkitt, a surgeon who pioneered the study of fiber, claimed that a roughage-rich diet could prevent and treat hiatal hernias. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | Men who have a hernia that does not cause pain or discomfort may not need surgery, a new study has found. Hernias occur when a portion of an organ (the intestine, for example) protrudes through an abnormal opening in the muscle wall, often as the result of a muscle tear injury. Sometimes the organ can become incarcerated, or caught, in this opening, and strangulated if its blood supply is cut off. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
See book keywords and concepts | | When the hernia can be pushed back in place by a doctor, it's usually a benign sign. However, a hernia can also become strangulated or incarcerated, both very painful and potentially life-threatening situations.
If you notice a belly button bump that's inside the navel, irregularly shaped, and possibly with visible blood vessels, it may a sign of Sister Joseph's nodule (aka Sister Mary Joseph's nodule). This rare lump is usually painless and firm but may ooze. It can be bluish violet, brownish red, or even white. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  Nux vomica: This remedy can be used in the short-term to relieve some of the pain and discomfort of a hernia while waiting for surgery. Symptoms include spasmodic, shooting pains and a sensation of heaviness that triggers irritability. Following surgery, Nux vomica can be a helpful remedy in easing nausea, retching, and/or stubborn constipation.
HERBALISM
Be advised to avoid any activity that will increase pressure in the intraabdominal cavity, such as heavy lifting or straining while having a bowel movement. |
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See book keywords and concepts | | Olga Jonasson, MD
The major risk of not having hernia surgery is strangulation, and according to Flum, this risk is very small.
"If you operate on people preventively, before they have symptoms, they don't do any better or any worse than the group of people who decide they are going to watch and wait, and if it becomes symptomatic fix it," he says.
"I have been practicing this way for years," agrees Dr. Robert Bell, an assistant professor of surgery at Yale University School of Medicine. "I tell patients, 'If it doesn't bother you, you don't need to get it fixed. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts |  Eight months after diagnosis the patient was operated on for a hernia and the surgeon noted the complete remission of the abdominal tumor. Five month later there was no evidence of liver or lung tumors on x-ray pictures. Complete remission persisted for more than five years. [Annals Oncology 8: 1031-39, 1997] Other cases of inexplicable remission from lung cancer among elderly subjects have been reported in the modern literature. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
See book keywords and concepts |  Postural gastric reflux, which occurs when gravity forces the stomach into the hernia, is a common presenting sign. This most frequently happens when the patient is bending over or lying down.
Treatment of Hiatus Hernia
The distressing gastric symptoms of this condition may be treated with herbal remedies, but the herniation itself can prove to be a therapeutic challenge. In severe cases, surgery may be necessary. Proper digestion and elimination are pivotal to healing, as is nervous system support. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
See book keywords and concepts |  His energy levels had improved drastically, and to quote Dennis, "I have more energy than I've ever had." The hernia attacks had also become milder and further apart. Now, nearly a year later, Dennis has not had a hernia attack for many months, even though he "cheats" occasionally. I would like to mention here that Dennis has had the support of his wife Hanna, who joined him in the change to a natural, healthy lifestyle. I'm sure that without her, he would have struggled. Hanna, by the way, has also experienced an improvement in her health and well-being. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | After the surgery, the most common reasons for hospitalization were surgery-related problems, such as a hernia.
A University of Washington study found the death rate for Medicare recipients 30 days after gastric bypass surgery was 2%. After 90 days, that rate was 2.8% and after one year, the death rate for bariatric surgery patients receiving Medicare benefits was 4.6%. This study also found that when the surgery was performed by a surgeon who had not done many of these procedures the death rate was 1.6 times higher than when the procedure was done by a more experienced surgeon. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Used in Chinese medicine for impotence, diarrhea, enuresis, rheumatic conditions, testicle hernia, menopause syndrome, amenorrhoea, abortion and to stabilize immunity.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
General: No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. The drug possesses a medium potential for sensitization. Sensitizations to cinnamaldehyde occur frequently.
Pregnancy: The drug is not to be administered in time of pregnancy. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
See book keywords and concepts |  Picaduras de insectos (2), hernia, fracturas, alergias, leucorrea y enfermedades venereas (una especie cada una) fueron condiciones medicas de menor importancia entre las que fueron tratadas.
Partes de las Plantas Medicinales Usadas y Modos de Aplicacion
En la mayoria de los casos (61%) toda la planta fue usada para propositus medicinales, seguida por las hojas (13%); las flores (6%) y las semillas, raices, cascaras, frutasy latex fueron raramente usadas (3% cada una). Casi todos los remedios fueron preparados de plantas frescas (96%). |
Shannon Brownlee
See book keywords and concepts |  Soon they noticed other strange patterns. hernia operations and hospitalizations for heart attacks and strokes seemed to occur at a constant rate across regions, while other procedures, like back surgery for pain, varied wildly. In one region, there were twenty hysterectomies performed for every 10,000 people; in another, there were sixty. Hemorrhoid removal went from a rate of two per 10,000 to ten per 10,000; there were threefold differences in the rates of appendectomies and mastectomies and a fourfold difference in the rate of surgery for varicose veins. | | Surgery for colon cancer, for instance, is relatively constant, as is hernia repair. For cataract removal, the rate is only slightly higher in hospitals in high-spending regions compared with low-spending ones.
For many other procedures, however, the differences are striking. Fisher runs a finger down the list and stops at a procedure called a laryngoscopy. "That's for looking down your throat to see why you're hoarse," he says. "It's done three and a half times more often in high-cost regions. Here's another. The pulmonary function test tells you how good the lungs are. | | He suffered a hernia at the incision site, which meant he could no longer do the physical labor of ranching: the fencing, bucking hay, and moving cattle. Five years later, he lost his ranch.
On August 4, 2003,Tenet Healthcare Corporation agreed to pay $54 million to settle fraud charges brought by the federal government. In return, Redding Medical Center and Tenet were granted immunity from criminal prosecution. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  Fennel is used in the treatment of amenorrhea, asthma, bloating, bronchitis, colic, cough, diabetes, dyspepsia, endometriosis, fatigue, fever, flatulence, gout, halitosis, hangover, heartburn, hernia, hiccups, hypertension, indigestion, jaundice, kidney stones, laryngitis, low libido, malabsorption, menstrual cramps, nausea, obesity, premenstrual syndrome, rheumatism, stomachache, teething, weak vision (including floaters), and vomiting.
Topically, fennel seed tea can be used as a soothing anti-inflammatory eyewash. |
Shannon Brownlee
See book keywords and concepts | | A year later, the man was almost back to normal, writes Goodwin, "and his hernia (still unrepaired) was not bothering him as much, because of his decreased activity. Here is the scariest part of the story: he was grateful—thankful that his doctors had found the heart and carotid problems in time. Grateful also are the legions of older men who have undergone radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer discovered by PSA screening, grateful that their doctors found it in time. |
Thomas Bartram
See book keywords and concepts |  For internal hernia, see: HIATUS hernia.
Treatment. Most abdominal hernias can be pushed back manually. Where this is not possible it is known as irreducible. Umbilical hernias in children usually disappear by the fourth year. Alternatives. Teas. Fenugreek, Aloe Vera, Rupturewort. 1 teaspoon fresh or dried herb to each cup boiling water. Strain when cold. 1 cup thrice daily.
Lobelia. {Priest) Liquid Extract. 2-10 drops in water thrice daily.
Thuja (infants). Liquid Extract. 1 -2 drops in water thrice daily.
Yarrow. (Wm Boericke MD)
Marshmallow root decoction. Traditional
European. |
Shannon Brownlee
See book keywords and concepts | | But at least his hernia was no longer bothering him.
Our relentless search for wellness through medicine has created a kind of therapeutic imperative, the urge to treat every complaint, every deviation from the norm, as a medical condition. We've come to believe that if a test can be performed, it should be performed; if a treatment can be used to lengthen life, no matter how incrementally, it should be used, regardless of whether the intervention will improve the patient's sense of well-being, or is what the patient really wants. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts | | Chinese Medicine: The drug is used to treat cold pain in the lower abdomen, impotence, and hernia (said to be due to cold "chi").
Indian Medicine: The drug is used for fever, vomiting, anorexia, coughs, bronchitis, and colitis. contraindications
The drug should not be used during pregnancy. precautions and adverse reactions
General: Health risks or side effects following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages are not recorded. Sensitization is possible through repeated external administration of the drug. |
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