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Re: phimosis

Written by halfclip at 03 Jan 2004 10:12:51:

As an answer to: Re: phimosis written by Ralesk at 02 Jan 2004 05:20:09:

>One thing is sure, a case of paraphimosis does not require circumcision, and
>— as I gather from above post — the ER simply pushed the foreskin forward again
>and that's about it, while the urologist later suggested and scheduled a
>circumcision for the child, which in true honesty is an overkill for this issue.


It is not overkill. If paraphimosis occured once, then there are chances it could re-occur again. Paraphimosis requires emergency treatment. This time around, they may have gottern to hospital in time to avoid emergency relief surgery. They were lucky.

If the child is mature enough, you can then teach him to avoid forcefully retracting it, while at ther same time, retracting as much as possible, as often as possible.

However, there will be the difficult period where the foreskin can be retracted when soft, but an erection while retracted might cause paraphimosis. Then. as the foreskin loosens, this danger will go away.


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