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Written by IA at 28 Jan 2004 23:47:49: Re: phimosis
As an answer to: Re: phimosis written by halfclip at 23 Jan 2004 09:07:00:
Hello Halfclip,
Thanks for your feedback.
I know that one of the stretching exercises that you mention is inserting 2 fingers inside foreskin, then pulling fingers apart and keeping some tension for a few minutes per day (but never so it hurts), however, my son's foreskin opening is so narrow that he can't even insert one finger.
>>was bathing, he started screaming. I came to the bathroom and he was crying
>>saying that he didn't want it to get stuck again. I guess that while he was
>>playing with it and retracting it, he was able to see the head.
>As another poster said, teaching to stretch the foreksin opening with fingers (insert 2 fingers inside foreskin, then pull fingers apart and keep some tension for a few minutes per day (but never so it hurts) might be another way.
>On the other hand, your son needs to leard how his penis works. I think that you can teach him to retract as much as it will easily go without any fear. In fact, you can retract as much as he wants withot any fear as long as the skin doesn't go behind rim of head.
>Also, teach him that when his skin will start to be able to easily go behind the rim of head, he should immediatly pull it forwards to ensure it can move freely. (by doing it immediatly, you don't give chance for glans to "inflate" with blood making it impossible to bring skin back over it.
>The fact that he retracted partially his skin is a good sign, both from the foreskin stratehcing point of view, as well as your child's hygiene behaviour.
>has he begun to get erections in the bath ? When he does, as long as he gets hard with skin still over glans, then he will be able to pull the skin back without much fear of paraphimosis since the skin is less likely to go behind rim of head until it has loosened enough.
>You don't want him to fear retracting his foreskin. You just want to make sure he doesn't forcefully retract it, and that until he is confident it has loosened enough, he should always bring the skin back over head as soon as he has fully retracted it. (he may not be able to retract fully now, but that day will eventually come - if it doesn, then a littel circ would be in order).