Aisha M., 8

Aisha Muhammed Suleiman is an 8-year-old girl who enjoys helping her mother with house chores and dreams up toys by molding sand. For the past two years, she has lived with an umbilical swelling that becomes larger when she cries, coughs, or strains. She has been diagnosed with an umbilical hernia and needs surgery to correct it. Aisha is the sixth of seven children. Her father is a carpenter earning about ₦30,000 per month, while her mother is a full-time housewife. With their limited income, the family cannot afford the cost of her surgery and needs support. Aisha Muhammed Suleiman, an 8-year-old girl, presented with a 2-year history of a painless swelling in the umbilical region. Parents reported that the swelling increases in size with crying, coughing, or straining and reduces when she lies down. No history of vomiting, abdominal pain, or irreducibility. No fever. Child is active and feeding well. Upon assessment Aisha is diagnosed with Umbilical hernia and planned for herniorraphy.

Aisha Muhammed Suleiman, an 8-year-old girl, presented with a 2-year history of a painless swelling in the umbilical region. Parents reported that the swelling increases in size with crying, coughing, or straining and reduces when she lies down. No history of vomiting, abdominal pain, or irreducibility. No fever. Child is active and feeding well. Upon assessment Aisha is diagnosed with Umblical hernia and planned for hernirraphy. her prognosis remains excellent. The recommended next step is a routine, low-risk, outpatient surgical repair to close the small defect in her abdominal wall and prevent any future emergency issues, leaving it untreated increases her risk for long-term complications like incarceration (where tissue gets permanently trapped) or strangulation (where blood supply to the intestine is cut off).