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So many times when I hear about a complication

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wants me to bang my head against the wall because doctors just tell parents of circ'ed kids as it's no big deal those things happen to boys but do doctors not know that those things will never occur in a male with a foreskin or do they actually believe boys have hole problems hence the need/urgency to check to see if their is any problem with a intact boy ?

Do some nurses/doctors end up get so much of varying of types of circumcision that a loose circ would look intact then when a intact foreskin came in the pictue would they first assume the child is circ'ed then pull back because one nurse actually thought her boy (not mine) patient was circ'ed so pulled the foreskin back the mom goes your not supposed to do that . He's not circ'ed and she was like oops I thought he was .


So is it possiblity that doctors do not really know what the complications are or that the circumcision pratice has become so ingrained in our cultural that when a boy gets circ complications it's actually treated as a common thing because of it being a common occurence in circ'ed boys hence why they don't see the connection with it actually being a complication like those penile adhesions, meatal stenosis ?

So then when a boy comes back to the hospital with a bleeding penis & that he will need transfunsions so how do doctors deny that to be a complication from his circumcision ?

Also, to add that when meatal stenosis is detected many years after the circumcision like 2, 5 or even 13 possibly in later adulthood is that why they don't see it as a circ complication but a common occurence among boys which they don't really keep track whose circ/itact?
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Also, to add that when meatal stenosis is detected many years after the circumcision like 2, 5 or even 13 possibly in later adulthood is that why they don't see it as a circ complication but a common occurence among boys which they don't really keep track whose circ/itact?
This is very true. Meatal stenosis is only seen in circumcised boys (or intact boys who have been early retracted). It seems the combined complications of circumcision, including minor problems post-surgery, adhesions, re-circumcisions, and meatal stenois are far more statistically LIKELY than anyone is willing to admit. And there is a small risk of amputation, serious error and death.
So the question remains, why are intact 'problem' statistics lifelong while circumcision statistics only represent the period immediately post-surgery. Why don't people know this?
I do think that the medical legal definitions here are being skewed in the favor of circumcision. The complications of circumcision can be defined as they are, but the lifelong complications of having a circumcised penis are different. As much as possible we have to educate people on this and encourage medical organizations and birth educators parenting advocates, etc to make the differences known.

Circumcision is still 'protected' in the US because so many people are circumcised and so many people have done it to their sons. They keep trying to find 'benefits' to claim for circumcision because clearly the risks of circumcision are real and keep parents thinking about the issue.
We just are in a culture that has supported and encouraged circumcision and a heck a lot of people dispensing the information are from that same culture.

It is very frustrating.
Jessica
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