Whether or not general anesthesia is needed for child circumcision surgery needs to be decided according to the child’s ability to tolerate pain, the degree of cooperation with the surgery, etc. Generally, local anesthesia is adopted for children over 8 years old and general anesthesia is adopted for children under 8 years old.
Children circumcision in the pain need to anesthesia drugs to block. If the child is older (usually over 8 years old), has a strong tolerance for the pain of surgery under local anesthesia, can try their best to cooperate with the completion of the surgery, and does not have serious cardiorespiratory system diseases, then you can choose to complete the circumcision surgery in the outpatient clinic under local anesthesia.
If the child is too young (usually under 8 years old) to tolerate the pain of local anesthesia and cannot actively cooperate with the surgery, then general anesthesia is required.
In addition, regardless of age, if the presence of special conditions such as inflammation of the foreskin is considered before surgery, surgical treatment should be performed under general anesthesia. Children’s circumcision should be treated with timely surgery, and the type of anesthesia can be decided by the doctor’s judgment.