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Originally Posted by MSUmama  Some of you may have already read about my 3 year old son Chase in my thread consequenses. In brief, he had about 50% of the outer skin removed during his circumcision at birth. He's been having issues and on January 23 he had a surgery to release severe adheshions around the scars from his initial circ. The urologist instructed us to apply neosporin to keep it from happening again, and I did for a few days. After reading more on here and talking via email to another mama here, I have stopped.
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The problem with "releasing" these adhesions is that often, the body will just start repairing them. The adhesions are the normal condition and the body will try to put itself back as close as possible to normal. I know of mothers who have fought these adhesions for years, in one case until the child was 7 years old before she finally gave up
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| I am sick over this and wondering what to do now. He was in pain before, though it's unclear what exactly from, peeing or erection. I think he did need some sort of corrective action, his penis was totally buried but now what? |
Until his body decides it is time for the adhesions to release, the best thing to do is leave it alone to perform its function.
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I am going to start looking for another urologist of course. My plan for now is to leave it alone unless he complains. Can this cause more harm than good? I can't even explain how bad applying the neosporin was, I really don't want to have to continue that if it can be avoided. He doesn't even want to bathe and I haven't made him, I've just been cleaning the important areas well during diaper changes. Any suggestions? TIA
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You are on the right course now. Just keep at it.
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Originally Posted by fruitful womb
The diaper cream is what I've used when Jaden's doctor retracted him for the first time. He was 4 months old. The tip got really swollen and red. Diaper cream cleared it up in two days.
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Actually, the diaper cream probably had little to do with it. The foreskin is highly vascularized similar to the lips and injuries like this will heal quickly even with no intervention.
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| When his penis would grow the adhesions caused him a great deal of pain. I was advised to rip them apart when he was an infant. Told to push down on the fat pad and pull the skin away from the corona . . . . The pain started when he turned 4 and already potty trained. |
The pain is common at this age in circumcised boys with adhesions. Erections cause pulling at the adhesions. In intact boys, there is sufficient skin to allow the penis to expand without pulling at the adhesions.
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| That is probably a very good idea if you can connect with him as I believe he USED TO perform circ's and has more than likely encountered some instances common to your son's... |
It would surprise me! He has said that he has never seen a boy in his practice that
needed a circumcision.
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Originally Posted by tammyswanson According to what he wrote in his book, yes he used to.
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I wonder if that was when he was an intern and maybe had to perform them?
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but I wouldnt use neosporine I would go with bacatracin instead. It is easier on the genitals. I would definatly apply a good quality diaper cream liberally at every diaper change tho to help keep the raw spots apart without hurting him.
: Sorry about that, I saw the 2 word name with 2 F's and it just stuck in my head wrong.
