Generally children younger than 3 years old, the phimosis is not combined with repeated infections, adhesions and other complications, you can temporarily do not operate; after the age of 3 years old or the emergence of recurrent infections and other special circumstances of the phimosis, need to be treated as soon as possible surgical.
A lot of children’s prepuce is primary, which is a kind of physiological prepuce. If the child is younger than 3 years old, and there are no uncomfortable symptoms as well as special complications such as adhesions, you can temporarily observe and wait for time to see if it can be cured by itself after 3 years old.
If there are recurrent phimosis infections and adhesions, the general treatment can be phimosis orifice dilatation. If encrustation of the prepuce occurs, it should be repositioned urgently by manipulation.
Surgical treatment is mainly circumcision, this surgery is contraindicated for some coagulation function abnormalities and acute infections, etc., the main complications are infections, subcutaneous hematomas, etc., the overall safer, fewer complications.
Children who can’t turn over their foreskin need to seek medical attention in a timely manner so that the surgeon can evaluate the solution according to the individual situation.