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Written by Charles II at 15 Jul 2005 22:12:02: Re: retraction problems
As an answer to: retraction problems written by beth at 04 Jul 2005 07:55:25:
>My son is 6 1/2 and he had normal retraction at around 3. For a month or so now he has been competely tight and cannot retract his skin at all. The doc says these are adhesions and we could try steroid creams. If we just wait it out and don't use the steroid cream, will the skin eventually retract once again?
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Answer: I would want to know that the doctor actually examined the boy and determined that there are indeed new adhesions. If so, they may or may not separate by themselves or with normal erections or intentional repeated attempts to retract.
A different problem of the same description as yours often occurs at some time after normal latent childhood adhesions have seperated. IF a portion of the foreskin extends past the end of the penis, and is not retracted often enough, the growing penis can stretch the other part of the skin as needed for normal growth and development, while NOT stretching the part that hangs off the end. Thats because there is nothing inside the end part to stretch it outward. The result is a new case of phimosis where none had previously existed.
So the thing to do is to see if the reason the boy has lost free retractability is because the inside of the foreskin is "stuck" to the head, OR the opening at the end has become too small for the now larger penis to pass through it.