What other problems will there be with boys' penises?
What is "foreskin clipping"
There is a kind of foreskin called "clamp foreskin", which means that the foreskin can't return to its normal position after returning to the coronary sulcus and is fixed, resulting in poor venous blood flow and edema, and the child feels severe pain in the glans penis. Sometimes parents find it earlier and can use lubricant to push the foreskin back to its normal position. If it is found late and the situation is serious, the foreskin will be removed.
1, the foreskin is easily inflamed.
If the foreskin of a baby boy is too long or too tight, it is often difficult to clean and even cause inflammation, which will have a negative impact on the baby's health. However, this infection is generally not serious, but it is easy to recur. "Inflammation of foreskin" most often happens when the glans wants to "satisfy" everyone, but it doesn't come out completely. At first, the baby's foreskin was well wrapped, but then the foreskin and glans slowly separated, and the glans had a chance to contact with the outside world for a long time, so bacteria could take advantage of it. However, because the foreskin is not completely separated from the glans penis, it cannot be thoroughly cleaned. At this time, the foreskin is red, swollen, painful and even suppurative.
2. Narrow foreskin opening
If the foreskin is often inflamed, it will stick to the opening of the foreskin, leading to stenosis. Stenosis may be congenital or caused by long-term inflammation. Its symptom is that the foreskin expands like a balloon when urinating. After urinating, the urine inside comes out slowly, sometimes it is difficult or painful to urinate.
3. Occasionally there will be scales
Sometimes, boys will have "skin scales", that is, they can see or touch some small white lumps through the foreskin. This is because phimosis makes some oily secretions accumulate between the foreskin and glans and cannot be discharged. But the scale itself will not go wrong, because as soon as the glans penis comes out, it will follow.
What kind of boys need phimosis surgery? How old can I do it?
There are usually three situations that require surgical treatment:
* Acquired phimosis with fibrous stricture ring at the foreskin;
* Recurrent glans dermatitis;
* After the age of five or six, the foreskin mouth is severely narrow and it is difficult to urinate. The foreskin can not be retracted to expose the penis head, and the conservative treatment effect is not ideal.
One of the first two conditions is that surgery is necessary.
If the boy does not have the above surgical indications, he can wait until the penis and penis head grow after puberty, and the foreskin of penis erection can contract upward and evert itself.
However, if there are indications for surgery without surgical treatment, the foreskin mouth will be repeatedly inflamed, resulting in scar contracture of the foreskin mouth, loss of skin elasticity and expansion ability, inability of foreskin to contract upward, and urethral stricture. If a narrow ring is formed, it will cause penile erection pain and affect adult sexual life.
Circumcision is not suitable.
Hidden penis
It is because the foreskin of the male baby is too short, the penis root is not fixed, and it is buried under the skin like a tent, so it looks very small, but it is actually normal. Once such a male baby is circumcised, it will cause more problems, and it should be based on foreskin plastic surgery.
hypospadias
If a boy suffers from hypospadias, his foreskin is the best material to repair the urethra and must not be easily removed.
Male circumcision is still controversial.
A few newspapers pointed out that male circumcision can reduce the possibility of penile cancer in adulthood, but a large-scale survey questioned the necessity of neonatal circumcision. In many western countries, for religious and cultural reasons, baby boys are circumcised. In the United States, it is believed that male boys after circumcision can reduce the chances of penile cancer, phimosis and balanitis in adulthood, and can also reduce urinary tract infections.