When it comes to summer and winter vacations, there are a lot of circumcised babies, waiting in long lines at the clinic for the surgery. Most of the parents are not quite sure why the baby’s foreskin needs to be operated, some of them are following the trend, because friends, relatives’ children or children’s classmates came to the surgery, and they also want to circumcise their children. Here, it is necessary to give you some knowledge about circumcision.
What is the foreskin?
The foreskin is the soft layer of skin that covers the body of the penis, so every baby has a foreskin (often some parents will say my baby has a foreskin).
What is circumcision and prepuce?
The prepuce is a narrow foreskin mouth, the foreskin tightly wrapped penis head, can not be turned upward to reveal the head of the penis, divided into congenital and acquired prepuce, the vast majority is congenital.
The foreskin is too long, although the foreskin covers the head of the penis, but it is easy to flip upward to reveal the head of the penis.
Congenital prepuce is seen in every normal newborn and infant. When the baby is born, the foreskin and the head of the penis adhere to each other. By the age of 3-4 years, due to the growth of the penis and the head of the penis, the foreskin can recede upward on its own and the head of the penis can be revealed by turning the foreskin out. The prepuce is a normal phenomenon for babies.
Acquired prepuce is mostly secondary to circumcision of the head of the penis and injury to the foreskin and head of the penis. Acute penile head circumcision, repeated infection, the foreskin mouth gradually has paralytic marks and loses elasticity, the foreskin mouth has a corridor contracture formation, losing the elasticity and expansion ability of the skin, the foreskin can not retreat upward. And often accompanied by urethral stenosis. This kind of circumcision will not heal on its own. Circumcision and circumcision are very common in clinical practice, and almost every boy faces the question of whether he has a circumcision.
What are the signs and dangers of prepuce?
As we said before, prepuce is the inability to reveal the glans, and there may be other manifestations of prepuce, such as difficulty in urination and a thin urine line in babies with a small foreskin opening. The foreskin bulges up, just like a transparent lantern. Long-term difficulty in urination can cause complications such as prolapse and hydronephrosis. Urine remains in the foreskin sac often stimulates the foreskin and penis head. It will cause it to produce secretions and epidermal shedding, forming excessive yellowish-white foreskin scale. In severe cases, it can cause ulcers or stones to form on the foreskin and head of the penis.
The accumulated foreskin scale is like milky white tofu sludge-like. Some of the foreskin scale is as big as a soybean. It is a small white lump visible through the foreskin at the coronal groove of the penis head. It is often mistaken for a tumor by the parents. As the foreskin scale accumulates under the foreskin, it can induce foreskin inflammation of the head of the penis. In acute inflammation, the head of the penis and foreskin are moist and red, and a purulent discharge can be produced. The baby is painful and restless, and because of the painful itching of the penis and difficulty in urination, it often develops the habit of squeezing the penis with the hand, thus may cause masturbation by puberty.