How to treat phimosis in children?

It is common for boys to suffer from phimosis when they are young. Most parents are aware of the impact of this disease on their children, but there are still many questions about how to treat it. In addition, some people cannot properly distinguish what is foreskin and what is phimosis? Let me introduce you to the relevant knowledge in detail below. I hope my explanation can provide you with some reference value.

Phimosis refers to a condition in which the foreskin opening is narrow and difficult to turn up. To determine whether it is phimosis or prepuce is too long, you can do a self-examination. The method is: apply soap on the penis to lubricate the inside and outside of the foreskin, fix the penis with your left hand, push the foreskin back and flip it with your right hand. If the foreskin can be turned up smoothly, it is prepuce is too long; if the foreskin opening is too small to be turned up, it is phimosis. Phimosis is mostly congenital. Some of them are caused by repeated infections on the basis of excessive foreskin, which causes adhesion and inability to be turned up.

Phimosis is much more harmful to the human body than foreskin being too long. In some severe cases of phimosis, the foreskin opening is as narrow as a pinhole, and the foreskin bulges like a ball during urination, making urination difficult. Due to phimosis and stenosis of the urethral orifice, the bladder sphincter contracts during urination, and the intra-bladder pressure exceeds the pressure that the bladder Mullerian sheath can withstand before or at the same time as overcoming the urethral resistance. Urine refluxes along the ureter, causing the ureter and renal pelvis to expand, causing bacterial infection of the upper urinary tract and scar formation, leading to secondary reflux nephropathy and even renal damage.

After the operation, when the anesthetic effect wears off, the wound will have slight pain and bruising. You should take medication regularly. Usually, the symptoms will subside after three days, and the wound will heal after seven to ten days. Before the wound heals, you should follow the doctor's instructions and return for regular follow-up examinations. In addition, the wound should be kept clean and dry after surgery. Please be careful not to wet the gauze when urinating. If the gauze is soaked with urine, you can remove the gauze first and then return to the outpatient clinic for a change of dressing.

After the operation, except for children who have received general anesthesia and need to be hospitalized for a short period of time for care and safety reasons, most patients can still carry out their daily work and do not need to be hospitalized. Adolescent and adult patients may experience swelling, pain and bleeding at the wound due to penile erection after surgery. If the bleeding is minor, local cold compress and pressure can stop the bleeding. If the bleeding is severe, the patient should return to the hospital for treatment immediately. Since the wounds are sutured with absorbable sutures, there is no need to remove the sutures after the wounds have healed. If necessary, soak the wound in clean warm water to help the stitches fall off.

After reading the above introduction, you should have understood the difference between foreskin and phimosis and the matters concerning surgery. When a child has this condition, the most correct choice is to take the child to a regular hospital for treatment in time. Generally speaking, this type of surgery is a minor one and does not take much time. You just need to actively cooperate with the doctor.