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Re: Foreskin and diabetes

Written by Rood at 25 Mar 2002 15:51:24:

As an answer to: Foreskin and diabetes written by Paul B. at 24 Mar 2002 05:58:38:

OK. Seems like excellent advice from all three of you, Jim, Will & Paul, regarding a proper course of action for the teen with diabetes. However, what prompted my question was a series of posts on another site regarding a prison inmate with diabetes who was faced with either a circumcision or a risky treatment plan. My question is: Could the circ and the problems that led to it have been prevented? If so, how?

Here is the case as I know it:

Last year a jail inmate with a history of past infections developed a bacterial infection that caused open ulceration just in from the rim of his penis. Cultures came back indicating a streph infection highly resistant to antibiotics. The individual was given a choice: treatment with an effective antibiotic that had "bad" side effects, or circumcision. The inmate chose circumcision. Since then the ulceration has healed, although a visible scar remains.

When asked what the inmate did wrong to present himself with such a limited choice, the correspondent told me that "He did nothing wrong". Because of a range of problems, the inmate evidently had a weakened immune system, poor circulation and urine high in sugar and nitrites which resulted in an active petrie dish that would rival that in most labs. Nitrites, he added, are a normal part of urine...with nitrites, read protein, as nitrogen is in protein. Then add an antibacterial resistant strain of streph and there you have it.

Rood


only infection I've ever had . . . began to use soap under my foreskin.
>Amen to that!
>> if you are taking a course of antibiotics for something . . . you begin to make extra smegma
>Well, antibiotics certainly tend to upset the balance in your bowel, so the smegma you notice (and which some people never notice) must be an individual thing, but this suggests a contribution from bacteria and moulds, notably the Candida which you suppress with the Nizoral.
>> Maybe Paul B. could comment,
>I think you've covered it very thoroughly. Nothing like advice from someone who has both experience and the capability to make the right conclusions and learn from it. (;-)


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