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Written by ... at 02 Jan 2005 15:08:08: Re: Adhesion??? - and a request for Mod assistance
As an answer to: Re: Adhesion??? - and a request for Mod assistance written by Ivan at 01 Jan 2005 18:47:41:
>>>>Yeah, its the foreskin adhering to the head which is my problem.
>>>>The whole "holding close your foreskin whilst peeing" sounds kinda dangerous.....is there any other alternative?
>>>>Will continued stretching help out?
>>>Yes, certainly. The connections there are made to eventually separate (unless you had wounds there which grew together, as many circumcised fellows do - then a fairly small surgery is required) and yours just needs some encouragement. Wiggle it frequently so there is a littel discomfort, but no actual pain. When you stretch, make sure the adhesions are getting pulled at,too, but again, without actual pain. The advantage to ballooning (again, don't do it to the point of pain) is that the urine is soothing to the raw tissue and a good antiseptic. But if you are uncomfortable with that, so be it. The other ways will work, too. NExt time you go to the phyisician, though, I'd recommend you ask him/her to take a look and make sure we are actually talking about adhesions, rather than either areas grown together or the frenulum.
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>>Areas grown together? Can you explain that?
>>Cos, it does seem like the foreskin kind of becomes one with the head......
>As open wounds heal, the body replaces tissue, blood vessels, etc, wherever the flesh is open. If two wounds are pressed together as they heal, they often will grow together: they will have blood vessels, lymph, etc. all connected as if they were like that from birth. Most times, of course, wounded surfaces are not held together like that, so this does not happen - burn victims would be one of the more common ways other than circumcision. Of course, with a circumcision, particularly infant circumcision where the ripping of the adhesions often leaves the glans and remaining foreskin with open wounds, the surfaces are pushed together and can easily grow together. Since the foreskin is mostly gone, this often takes the form of a bridge across the sulcus - i.e. from the shaft to the rim of the glans.
>Adhesion, on the other hand, involves a natural bodily adhesive. The foreskin is 'glued' to the glans to keep urine, feces, etc. out (It does NOT cover the meatus - peehole). It has often been compared to the adhesion of the fingernails to the finger. The foreskins adhesions generally dissolve slowly over time. This is why foreskins should never be pushed back by parents to clean around the glans or to examine it (I'm guilty of that myself, but my boys' adhesions had already dissolved - whew!) As long as the adhesions are there, no dirt can get in (you don't try to clean where the fingernail is still attached, do you?). Once it separates, a clean water rinse is entirely adequate.
>There are links elsewhere on this site showing the differences between adhesions, bridges, and the frenulum. It will take some searching to find them, but you want to make sure exactly what your situation is before doing something potentially harmful and ill-advised. The Moderator may maintain a list of such links.
Ok, thanks for the info and thanks for all the help