A small percentage of the hernias can be hereditary umbilical hernia can be hereditary, inguinal hernias can be hereditary. It can also run in families in a small percentage of people. Except for congenital that is umbilical hernia happening at birth, small ones happening at birth and no other hernias go out on the own. They have to be operated up on. The hernias can be operated by two methods, the conventional method is the open surgery where in we make a cut over the hernia and repair the muscle defect with or without a machine commonly with a machine and the second method which we use is laparoscopic repair or keyhole surgery repair for the hernia. So the laparoscopic repair has certain advantage in it being less painful better cosmetic and early recovery. Recovery from the Hernia surgery depends on the patient, the hernia size and location. The recovery can be as fast as one day they come in morning they get operated and go home by evening, it can happen and they can get back to the normal routine work in very few days as less as 3 to 4 days with laparoscopic or some open hernia repair. Hernias can happen at various parts of the body but which happened commonly in abdominal or gastrointestinal region. These are the weaknesses in the abdomen muscle through which the contents inside abdomen come out and stay under the skin they are called hernias. The common ones being groin hernia or inguinal hernia, umbilical hernia which happened to the umbilicus, incision hernia happen at the place where the person has undergone a previous surgery and the weakness in that area causes the dermis to come out lie under the skin, so they are called incisional hernias.
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