ped appt.

Simply, if there are no symptoms, there is nothing to look at. Any problems will manifest themselves on the outside very quickly if they are serious enough to be seen from the inside. Even if there are problems that have manifest themselves on the outside, the appropriate thing to do as far as the inside is concerned is to take a sample via a Q-Tip for analysis.

Looking inside the foreskin is analogous to opening a girls vagina with a speculum to check it out. No doctor would think to do that and no parent would allow it if there were no symptoms present.

The only inspection that is needed is to possibly turn it form side to side and up and down to check for any redness or swelling and that would be visible without even touching it in most cases.

You are an alert and educated parent to catch this and stop it. Congratulations!

Frank

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Umhhh . . . "just pushing it back" is called "retracting".

Buy him a dictionary.

And get a new doctor.

ps. did you have a lotus birth?

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She's still full of crap. I wouldn't let a doc fiddle around with my dd's genitals "just to check," and boys deserve the same respect.

Symptoms of infection of the foreskin or glans manifest themselves very quickly. She can look today and see nothing and then tomorrow, POOF! Redness and swelling. If you can't see symptoms from the outside, the chances that there is no infection is 99 44/100 ths %. If there are symptoms visible from the outside, the chances that it is an infection is very low and most likely just a minor irritation.

Tell her to just look at the outside and if there are no symptoms, just leave it alone. If there are symptoms tomorrow, you'll bring him back tomorrow.

Frank

Hi there, just FYI our experience has been that our ped has never ever touched our sons penis, he is almost two. He doesn't even take off his diaper anymore. The only time he did was to check for undecended testicles when Callum was a newborn and once when I asked him to check on a bad diaper rash. IMHO the only time the diaper should even come off is if there is a problem as relayed by you to the doc.

Have you seen this?
Intact care agreement
http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/care.html

Good luck to you guys.
Take care,
Tara

No doctor ever handled any of my boys penises. I think we were lucky in that the pediatrician we had with my older boys actually had an intact son (those boys were born in the 80's). Now we have a family practice doctor who we've had lengthy discussions with on many topics (i.e. homebirth, episiotomy, etc.) and circumcision was one of the things we talked about long before we had our toddler boy. We thought we were "training" the doctor for the advantage of other parents, but since Ryan surprised us by joining the family the doctor hasn't touched his privates except for checking his testicles when he was a newborn. That's ALL any doctor needs to do.

Did you notice if your ped. washed her hands before touching your son? If she neglects to wash, then handles his penis, SHE could introduce infection.

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That is so true and so important. That's the way staph infections get spread around and staph is getting to be very resistant to medication. There was a story told on one of the boards about a woman following a nurse around for 6 hours one day and the nurse never once washed her hands. That was a sick child waiting and watching for a place to happen.

Frank

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