The first dressing change for circumcision will be painful, with relatively good pain tolerance for adult patients and relatively poor pain tolerance for pediatric circumcision patients.
If there is no obvious foreskin adhesion and no obvious oozing from the wound after the operation, the pain feeling during the dressing change is often lighter. Adhesion separation is done during the operation, accompanied by obvious oozing after the operation, the pain is often more obvious when changing the medicine. Early postoperative dressing change, the pain is more obvious, with the passage of time, the pain will gradually reduce.
Post-circumcision dressing change process is to remove the gauze and bandage, local disinfection of the wound, disinfection may be used to apply disinfectant or immersion, and then re-wrapped with gauze and bandage after proper drying of the area. The process of removing the gauze is likely to cause pain, because after circumcision, there will be oozing blood and fluid, resulting in adhesion of the gauze to the skin, which inevitably needs to be torn when changing the dressing, and this will cause pain.
As the condition improves, the exudate gradually decreases, and the adhesion of gauze to the skin during subsequent dressing changes will gradually improve. Patients are advised to go to regular hospitals for circumcision and follow the doctor’s instructions to recover the wound after surgery.