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Written by Ivan at 16 Feb 2005 23:49:05: Re: ***HELP -- Bleeding after circumcision****
As an answer to: ***HELP -- Bleeding after circumcision**** written by Jay at 16 Feb 2005 23:10:00:
>I was hoping someone could help answer a question. I was partially circumcised last Friday (Feb 11)
>There is some remaining outer skin which kinda rolls over and covers the head. When I try to pull back the skin to soak the stitches in a bath it immediatly starts bleeding quite a bit. If I held the skin there i am assuming it would keep bleeding. When I release the skin the bleeding seems to stop.
>Is this normal? Should I even be pulling back the skin or just leave it to heal on its own? I still haven't pulled it all the way back because of the swelling and bleeding. It's soon to be 6 days post op.
>Please help
>Thank you.
>Jay
I can't answer for the normalcy of it, but I have been told that using either vaseline of diaper cream will help prevent the open wounds from healing to the glans. I believe those would also discourage the sort of bleeding you are experiencing, but I'm not as sure of that.