When is the best time to circumcise a child?

Many parents find that their children have foreskin that is too long after they are born. Because the children are still young, they don’t know what to do, so over time, their initial worries about the children disappear, and they even forget about it. In fact, a child’s long foreskin is not a good thing and it can be very harmful. So when is the best time to treat a child with long foreskin? Take a look at the editor’s introduction!

1. The harm of long foreskin in children:

Although phimosis and prepuce are minor diseases in men, their wide incidence makes them common and extremely harmful and should not be underestimated. After urination, patients with phimosis find it difficult to excrete the last few drops of urine, which often accumulate in the foreskin. In addition, the necrotic and shed cells on the surface of the foreskin and glans, the secreted mucus, the pollution and reproduction of the rectum and perineum, etc., easily form a white film-like substance - smegma in a warm and humid environment. If the smegma is not thoroughly cleaned for a long time, it will irritate the foreskin and glans, and eventually lead to other diseases, such as balanitis, foreskin stones, leukoplakia caused by loss of foreskin pigment, induce premature ejaculation and penile cancer, and cause long-term local inflammation and immune dysfunction.

2. Treatment:

After the age of five or six, if the foreskin opening is severely narrowed, urination is difficult, the foreskin cannot retract and the glans penis is exposed, and conservative treatment is unsatisfactory, surgical treatment can be adopted.

After suffering from phimosis and prepuce, the clinical manifestations are mostly some local inflammation, repeated formation of smegma and odor. Therefore, some patients will take some antibiotics and wash externally on their own. Although this method of treating the symptoms but not the root cause can quickly control the inflammation, the above symptoms will reappear after a period of time. Moreover, due to drug resistance to antibiotics, the use of antibiotics for balanitis caused by fungal infection will often make the condition worse. Therefore, for patients with excessive foreskin and phimosis, it is necessary to perform surgery to completely and fundamentally solve the problem of excessive foreskin or phimosis on the basis of cleaning and anti-inflammatory treatment. This is currently the more effective method.

After reading the above introduction, if your child has this condition, it is recommended that you receive timely treatment when the child is five or six years old. This age group is the best time for treatment. If the child is too old or the time is too long, it may cause other diseases. It is best to take surgical treatment in time. Only in this way can it be completely cured.