Many parents come to our clinic for advice, hoping that the doctor will help them decide whether or not to circumcise their child. In this process, we doctors can only act as “information providers” and provide parents with information on the pros and cons of “circumcision” to the best of our knowledge and understanding, but the final decision is still in your hands. Today, I will list out some information that I often say in the clinic, hoping that all parents will make their own decision after they are fully aware of the good and bad of “circumcision”. 1, not all circumcision, prepuce need to do surgery Previous articles we have mentioned, before the age of 3 years old children circumcision, prepuce is a protective role for children, at this time we can not be based on the length of the foreskin or short to decide whether to do surgery or not. After the age of 3, as the child’s foreskin slowly retracts and flips up, if the glans can be fully exposed, there is no need to do surgery in the future to ensure daily cleanliness, and it will not affect the physical development of the child’s penis. If the glans cannot be fully exposed, it is recommended that parents come to the hospital as soon as possible to do a simple “circumcision” minor surgery. 2, no surgery, the child’s foreskin is too long, what will be the harm Even after the age of 3, there are still many children’s foreskin presents too long or circumcised situation. But only 20-30% of children will have clinical symptoms, mainly pain when urinating, redness and swelling of the foreskin, pain when touching the penis, discomfort in the perineal area always stroking with hands and so on. These symptoms are mainly related to the fact that the foreskin regularly covers the glans, and our parents do not educate children well about cleanliness, and the foreskin harbors dirt and grime, which over time forms inflammation. 1, the foreskin is too long, prepuce will affect the growth and development of the penis If you do not do surgery, the child’s penis has been too long foreskin “care”, as children get older, the glans protected by the foreskin can not be stimulated by the outside world should have, may lead to the head of the penis after puberty, the thickness of the coronal sulcus than normal children’s bias The head of the penis and the coronal sulcus may be smaller than those of normal children after puberty, which in turn may affect some aspects of the future life experience. As mentioned above, children with long foreskin and prepuce will sometimes have a bulge in their head when urinating, which is a typical clinical manifestation of a small foreskin opening. Many attentive parents will also find that their children urinate in a thin line, and after urination, they also tend to drip and feel that they can not always urinate cleanly, and this residual urine accumulates between the foreskin and glans, which can easily cause glansitis of the foreskin and even cause urinary tract infections. 3, the foreskin is too long, circumcision will cause foreskin scale long time to urinate, coupled with the narrow foreskin mouth, the accumulation of urine between the foreskin and glans slowly formed inflammation, if not promptly clean, then it will form foreskin scale in the child’s foreskin. Children’s foreskin is thin, so sometimes through the foreskin we can vaguely see white dirt, and even with your hands you can feel a lot of small hard lumps under the foreskin, these are all foreskin scale. 4, the foreskin will cause the foreskin Canton Many children in the parental teaching, every day when bathing obediently turn up the foreskin to clean the dirt inside. Among them, some children will find that after turning up the foreskin, the foreskin can not return to its original position, like the Monkey King’s “tight band”, firmly pinched in the glans below. In a short time, Canton’s foreskin began to edema, can not be touched by hand, just touching it is very painful. This is foreskin canton. If this happens, it is recommended to come to the hospital as soon as possible to reset the foreskin by hand, and it is also recommended to remove the excess foreskin as soon as possible, and conversely the reoccurrence of Canton. 5.Circumcision can cause cancer In a society where cancer is almost a concern, many parents may be very worried about this article. However, this is an indisputable fact. Before the founding of New China, people could not solve the problem of food and clothing, so they had no time to care whether their children’s foreskin was too long or not. So the overcircumcision caused inflammation and long-term inflammation slowly stimulated and gradually inflammation cancer. Therefore, penile cancer is highly prevalent in this period. At this stage, with the enhancement of people’s health concept, many parents choose to circumcise their children’s excessively long foreskin as early as possible. As a result, the incidence of glans penis infection decreases, and the incidence of penile cancer also decreases year by year. The most important thing is to know the risks and decide whether to circumcise your child or not.