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Written by halfclip at 01 Dec 2004 09:38:35: Re: Post-Circumcision Question
As an answer to: Post-Circumcision Question written by Andrew B at 29 Nov 2004 13:40:21:
Interestingly, urologists seem to be all over the place when it comes to post operative care.
Instead of a bath, you can take a long hot shower, or just dip your penis in a bowl of warm water.
What happens is that blood oozes out slowly from teh scar and is absorbed by the bandage and dries up and this causes bandage to stick to the skin right at the scar and you don't want that to happen.
By soaking bandage, you are in effect disolving the dried blood, allowing the bandage to be taken out without pulling on stitches or damaging the scar.
Depending on the bandage, it could also be a compression bandage. Without bandage, a penis tends to swell quite a bit after circumcision. The bandage helps control that swelling. So appltying a nadnage after the first one isn't a bad idea. You can put something like polysporin cream over the scar and stitches. This cream will help the sticthes remain supple, and help prevent the bandage from adhering to scar.
After that, you can simply wrap your penis in kleenex or toilet paper. This will absorb any blood that oozes out (eg: reduceblood stains in underwear and also greatly reduce rubbing of glans against underwear.
Swelling is normal and it can get pretty ugly and scary before it starts to come back down.