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Hernias (for Parents) - Nemours KidsHealth
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What Are Hernias?

Hernias happen when part of an organ or tissue in the body (such as a loop of intestine) pushes through an opening or weak spot in a muscle wall. It can push into a space where it doesn't belong. This causes a bulge or lump

How Do Hernias Happen?
Hernias are fairly common in kids. Babies, especially preemies, can be born with them.

Some babies are born with small openings inside the body that will close at some point. Nearby tissues can squeeze into such openings and become hernias. Unlike hernias seen in adults, these areas are not always considered a weakness in the muscle wall, but a normal area that has not yet closed.

Sometimes tissues can squeeze through muscle wall openings that are only meant for arteries or other tissues. In other cases, strains or injuries create a weak spot in the muscle wall. Then, part of a nearby organ can push into the weak spot so that it bulges and becomes a hernia.

Hernia repair is the one of the most common surgeries kids have. It's important to know the signs of a hernia so your child gets the right medical care.

What Are the Types of Hernias?
There are different types of hernias, and each needs different levels of medical care.

Most hernias in kids are either inguinal hernias in the groin area or umbilical hernias in the belly-button area.

Inguinal Hernias
An inguinal hernia happens when part of the intestines pushes through an opening in the lower part of the abdomen called the inguinal (IN-gwuh-nul) canal. Instead of closing tightly, the canal leaves a space for the intestines to slide into.

Doctors fix inguinal hernias with surgery.

Umbilical Hernias
An umbilical hernia happens when part of a child's intestines bulges through the abdominal wall inside the belly button. It shows up as a bump under the belly button. The hernia isn't painful and most don't cause any problems.

Most umbilical (um-BILL-ih-kul) hernias closes up on their own by the time the child turns 4 or 5. If a hernia doesn't go away by then or causes problems, doctors may recommend surgery.

Epigastric Hernias
An epigastric (eh-pih-GAS-trik) hernia is when part of the intestines pushes through the abdominal muscles between the belly button and the chest.

Many are small, cause no symptoms, and don't need treatment. Larger ones that do cause symptoms won't heal on their own, but surgery can fix the problem.

Other types of hernias — like hiatal hernias, femoral hernias, and incisional hernias — usually happen in older people, not kids
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The Only Foreigner At The Wuhan Virus Lab Says She Doesn't Believe The Center Leaked It
~4.1 mins read
  • Danielle Anderson worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology until late 2019.
  • She told Bloomberg she doesn't believe the novel coronavirus leaked from her old workplace.
  • The lab-leak theory has gained steam recently, and Biden has ordered a US intelligence report into it.
  • An Australian scientist who was the only remaining foreigner at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has said that she never contracted COVID-19 and doesn't believe the novel coronavirus leaked from the lab.

    On Sunday, Bloomberg News published an interview with Danielle Anderson, a 42-year-old expert in bat-borne viruses, who worked at the institute's BSL-4 lab until November 2019.

    As Anderson described her workplace: "It's not that it was boring, but it was a regular lab that worked in the same way as any other high-containment lab."

    "What people are saying is just not how it is."

    The theory that the novel coronavirus leaked from the lab has grown in popularity this year, after initially gaining support from Republican lawmakers like Sens. Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham.

    In late May, The Wall Street Journal uncovered a US intelligence report that said three researchers at the Wuhan lab were so sick in November 2019 - a month before the novel coronavirus was first found in Wuhan - that they had to go to the hospital.

    Days later, President Joe Biden told US intelligence agencies they had 90 days to "double their efforts to collect and analyze information" about the origins of the coronavirus.

    However, Anderson told Bloomberg that she was not aware of anyone at the Wuhan lab falling ill at that time.

    "If people were sick, I assume that I would have been sick-and I wasn't," she said.

    "I was tested for coronavirus in Singapore before I was vaccinated, and had never had it."

    In December, Anderson said, she was reunited with many of her colleagues from Wuhan at a conference in Singapore, and that that none of them reported anything out of the ordinary at the lab.

    "There was no chatter," Anderson said. "Scientists are gossipy and excited. There was nothing strange from my point of view going on at that point that would make you think something is going on here."

    Anderson also told Bloomberg that the lab had stringent safety protocols, and that she didn't believe the virus had leaked from there.

    Anderson said that she and her colleagues had to complete 45 hours of "very, very extensive" training to be permitted to work alone in the lab, Bloomberg reported.

    "The pandemic is something no one could have imagined on this scale," she said.

    "The virus was in the right place at the right time and everything lined up to cause this disaster."

    However, Anderson acknowledged that viruses can leak from laboratories when serious accidents occur.

    "I'm not naive enough to say I absolutely write this off," she told Bloomberg.

    World Health Organization officials previously said it was highly unlikely that the coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan lab. But as Insider's Aylin Woodward reported, even if a leak did happen, that wouldn't necessarily mean it was engineered.

    Source: Yahoo.com

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