Some people are just born with a weakness in their abdominal muscles . Sometimes a cough will produce a hernia at a weak spot in the wall. Some babies are born with hernias. Cause Thin sheets of muscle hold our internal organs in place. Whenever part of an organ pushes through a weak spot or rip in surrounding muscle, a hernia exists.
Any organ can create a hernia.
The hernias most people know about occur in the groin area, where the abdominal wall meets the thighs. Many people are born with a weak spot, called a congenital weakness, in this muscle wall, but they may reach adulthood before a hernia finally appears. Other people acquire a weak spot by straining abdominal muscles until they tear, either through lifting too much weight or lifting improperly. What finally causes the intestine to push through is not always apparent, but coughing, straining, lifting, and even accidents have brought on hernias. Here part of the intestine pushes down the canal carrying the femoral artery into the thigh.