Curiosity Killed the Umbilicus
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this week's podcast, we will cover umbilical hernias. Including some causes, signs & symptoms, and the treatment you will recommend to your patient.
An umbilical hernia occurs when fatty tissue or intestine pushes through a weak spot in the abdominal muscle. This can be more common in obese or pregnant women. The signs & symptoms you may see are bulging or swelling, tenderness or discomfort and potential incarcerations of the intestine.
Next are the treatment options which can range from watchful waiting to surgical intervention. With proper treatment, umbilical hernias have very rare complications.
Join Dr. Niket Sonpal as he dives into umbilical hernias.
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| 0:00.0 | We've all heard the phrase curiosity kill the cat. It's a well known phrase that's found in English literature. |
| 0:05.8 | And the meaning of it basically means don't go poking your nose and being nosy into other people's of businesses, affairs, essentially where you don't belong, and don't be overly |
| 0:14.5 | inquisitive about things that don't necessarily concern you, as it might cause you some trouble. |
| 0:19.4 | We know the phrase had some Shakespearean roots, and it was seen for the first time in Jane Allen Mayor's |
| 0:24.4 | 1873 book, A Handbook of Proverbs. Now you might be wondering is this have something to do |
| 0:29.0 | with Shakespeare. Are we going to talk about how he died? Is there a lesson here? |
| 0:32.2 | No. It actually has to do with the fact that if you get in Are we going to talk about how he died? Is there a lesson here? |
| 0:32.5 | No. |
| 0:33.5 | It actually has to do with the fact that if you get into the wrong place, |
| 0:36.2 | you're going to get into trouble. |
| 0:37.1 | Kind of like certain organs in our body |
| 0:39.0 | when they are herniate into the wrong place, |
| 0:40.8 | the patient gets into trouble. |
| 0:42.1 | Yes, I know you might be thinking that's a bit of a stretch about Curiosity, |
| 0:45.2 | Kill the Cat in Shakespeare, and possibly Hearnias, but they do make sense in my brain, |
| 0:49.6 | and I've got to keep you entertained somehow. |
| 0:51.3 | So join me this week in our podcast about umbilical hernias. My name is |
| 0:55.1 | Dr. Niket son-pa, your friendly-neabored internist, gastrantroologist, and lover of all things that seem to make sense in my brain. So kick off that music and like jump in to this week's topic. So how is a hernia curiosity killed the cat? Well basically it's a piece of the greater |
| 1:23.2 | momentum where possibly the small intestine herniating into a part of the body or |
| 1:27.4 | into a cavity doesn't belong. In fact the definition of a hernia is a |
| 1:31.0 | protrusion, bulge, a projection of an organ or part of an organ through the body wall that normally contains it. |
| 1:37.0 | Now, abdominal wall herneers are typically classified just like real estate, location, location, location. |
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