Needing Blood after Circ

[MamatoPeach]

Had another patient in the hospital that needed blood after having a circ. Poor babies!!

Any stats on complications after a circ? Because working at a pediatric hospital, I have seen a lot of little boys bleed way too much.

[robertandenith]

[bubbamummy]

that makes me feel sick to my stomach...poor, poor baby

[eepster]

It is reported as around 2%, but many believe that figure to be low due to under reporting.

[calngavinsmom]

I am a blood donor and it makes me sad that my contribution would be used for this. Not because it would be helping out the baby of course, but because there is a need for the baby to be helped in the first place.

I am donating on the 6th again, now I have an ethical conundrum.

Take care,
Tara

[baybee]

It would be good to have some of the nurses who post here go onto the obnurses yahoogroups. If you want to PM me, I'll give you the links to get on a couple of them. It carries more weight when it's a nurse posting about the butchery.

[BugMacGee]

I had to put topical epi. on one that came to us from the nursery. The bleeding didn't stop after an hour of pressure.

That incident was the anti-circ nail in my co-worker's coffin. She left her son intact after I told her about that.

Good RN anti-circ thread in progress on another board

[hippiemommaof4]

wow how sad...

[eli's mama]

That poor baby!

[MommytoB]

wasn't there on a web site that a baby needed blood transfusion from circumcision not only did he get a bad botched circumcision he also got transfused with Hiv infected blood.

Where was that at ?

[jocelyndale]

I'd love to see stats, but I have a feeling that they're buried well. I imagine hospital-acquired MRSA infections related to circ are probably quietly rising, too. "Congrats, here's your chopped-up baby. Oh, and everyone in your house needs to wash with this nasty soap for a few weeks."

[tutucrazy]

I have read that the real estimate of complications is at around 30%. Keep in mind 8 in 100 boys alone will suffer from stenosis after circ.

[robertandenith]

also, do not counts the problems that the young men discover when they start getting sexually active like skin bridges or skin tags, scarring, unevenness, etc

[NamastePlatypus]

Poor thing. ANy medical data on this I could really use!

[NamastePlatypus]

Originally Posted by jocelyndale

I'd love to see stats, but I have a feeling that they're buried well. I imagine hospital-acquired MRSA infections related to circ are probably quietly rising, too. "Congrats, here's your chopped-up baby. Oh, and everyone in your house needs to wash with this nasty soap for a few weeks."

DH was hospitized as a newborn for this. His mom still says it was " jsut a bad diaper rash"...umm yeah sweetie you tell yourself that!

[Papai]

Of course the WHO don't fund or publish studies like this. How scary, I didn't even know that babies needed blood following circ.