First of all, it is important to know that pediatric circumcision does not always require surgery.
Prepuce means that the foreskin is narrow and the foreskin cannot be turned up and the head of the penis cannot be exposed. This is true for most newborns. As children develop, most foreskins can be turned up, and from the age of 3-4, the foreskin mouth begins to expand, and the glans can be exposed in some children, and after puberty, there are very few children with prepuce.
The vast majority of children have physiological prepuce, which has almost no abnormal sensation and can mostly heal on its own, so there is no need for every child with prepuce to undergo surgery.
If the physiological prepuce causes abnormal symptoms, then it needs to be treated promptly. If necessary, the foreskin mouth can be given dilated treatment: 1. Physiological prepuce is very common in young boys, but it can also bring some problems because the foreskin cannot be turned up and the head of the penis cannot be exposed. For example, because the foreskin cannot be turned up, the epithelial cells and sebaceous secretions shed by the penis head and foreskin cannot be discharged and remain between the foreskin and the penis head to form prepuce masses. Some parents take their children mistakenly think it is a hard knot on the head of the child’s penis, and even think it is a tumor. The retention of foreskin scale can bring secondary infection, redness and swelling, purulent discharge and other problems, parents should pay attention to the child’s foreskin color when bathing, if there is redness and swelling, there may be infection, should be early diagnosis and treatment, give the foreskin mouth expansion.
2, due to the narrow foreskin mouth, when the child urinates, urine can not be discharged directly through the urethra, first in the sac between the foreskin and the head of the penis first bulge out a small bubble, and then discharged. In order to avoid long-term stimulation of the glans by urine, the foreskin mouth can be dilated early when the problem of poor urination occurs.
When giving the foreskin mouth expansion treatment, try to fully separate the adhesion between foreskin and glans until the glans can be fully exposed, apply erythromycin ointment to the glans (anti-infection, anti-adhesion), then you can often wash the glans with warm water (continue to apply erythromycin ointment to the glans after early washing), pay attention to the foreskin should be turned back after washing to prevent foreskin ingrown.