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Hello Mommies of little boys...
My son is 15 months old and we decided to circumsize when he was first born. My question is that twice now the skin has reattached, even though I try to pull it down with almost every diaper change. How do I stop this process? It seems to be painful for my son to endure the doctor's quick tug to pull it back down (even though he does get over it quickly). I have used the petroluem jelly like medicine the Dr. gave us, but even after one week (since Dr. visit)- the skin seems to be reattaching again.
Anyone have any other ideas?? |
| Posted by Erica on 02/02/2009 07:47 PM
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I had some kind of simular issues. I will make this as short as possible.
When my son was born they said he was to short to cicumsize and to wait. So he was done at 2 weeks old. When they did it they found that he had adhesions in there and hoped that the circumsizion broke all of them loose. Well even by the time we got home with him his penis was already back down inside of him, if you know what I mean. Well he ended up having to go to a urologist and was diagnosed with phamosis. This is when the skin of the penis sticks to the penis. Kind of like scar tissue. Well the circumsizion made it worse because it caused scar tissue and more adhesions. So the urologist took him to surgery and had to pull the skin off the penis and recircumsize him and stitch the skin down. It was kind of bad. This was done at 6 mo. He is now 15 mo. and he is prefectly fine. He had looked like he had no penis before, but now he has one. The skin sticking to the penis was pulling the penis back inside of him.
I am not saying that this sounds like what your son has. I honestly don't know if what you are describing is normal or not. But I would keep the A & D or what ever you were given to put on it, I would put it on several times a day and for longer than a week, if that is how long it takes to stick back. And I would deffinatly talk to your doctor. But I would say breaking the scar tissue or what ever the doctor is doing is better than letting it stick back. Then it sounds like you could maybe end up with something like what my son had.
I am interested to know how things come out for your son. Keep me posted, and good luck. |
| posted by Kim on 02/06/2009 07:37 PM
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| How did it go? I had a whole E-mail typed out to you and it got deleted when I hit post reply. Basically I will try agin to be short about it. My son had the same thing. When he was born they circumcised him and there was some heavy bleeding. When we got home I noticed it looked like he had not been circumcised at all. Basicall to put it simply he had no distinct head of his penis. My husband is a pediatric nurse and said that sometimes that happens when they are circumcised if the doctor dosen't break away all the connective tissue, which is painfull to the child and sometimes leaves scar tissue. Basically he will turn 5 in april and things have been "normal" for about 6 months now. We used to try to seperate it also but it is also very painful for the child, so DON'T. Leave it alone and it will seperate normally and look normal by the time he is five. Until then you can make funny turtle jokes about it. If you have any other questions my husband said you can E-mail hime at SILVERWOLF64@aol.com. Hope this helps. |
| posted by Jamie on 02/18/2009 06:44 PM
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Thanks Jamie and Kim!! I have been usually the white petroleum on him religiously and I don't seem to have the problem re-occurring. I am pulling the skin back at every diaper change now, and the doctor said as long as I see the base of the head (the purplish colored ring part) then it isn't reattaching. It just seems to me like the shaft part is all skin, and the darn thing just needs to grow so the skin can stretch out.
I will post again if I have any more problems, bu since my post - we have been doing good. Thanks!! |
| posted by Erica on 02/18/2009 06:50 PM
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