When circ's go bad...

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Has anyone seen a circ go really bad? I saw one today where the doc took too much foreskin off and the skin on the shaft ended up "degloving" from the fascia underneath. A urologist had to come in and do "damage control." The people I've talked with say they've never seen anything like this happen before.

Specializes in NICU.

Non-religious circumcision only became popular in English speaking countries, primarily the UK, Canada, Australia, and the USA (not sure about New Zealand and South Africa). As of today, it is only widely practiced in the USA and has been pretty much abandoned everywhere else.

It became a class issue in the UK with the upper classes preferring it. Some say that during Victorian times it was done in the attempt to discourage masturbation (no success there, albeit circumcised males don't have a foreskin to stimulate). In the USA, it became popular following WWII with our great emphasis on hygiene when in reality hygiene for uncircumcised memberes isn't much different then hygiene for the rest of the body....soap and water.

I grew up in the UK, and circumcision was very unusual, only for medical reasons. I came to the US before my sons were born. My brother found it very strange that my boys had both been circed. Of course, daddy was circed and wanted the boys to look like him.

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I don't believe in routine circumcision. When my 15 y/o was born people thought I was crazy not to get him circumcized. The pediatrician assured my husband that less than 1% of males ever have a problem with not being circumsized. I had done my homework and really had to present my husband with alot of information before he would agree to no circumcision and when the pediatrician added his two cents he was finally convinced.

When our son was 3 years old he developed phimosis. He had to be circumcized and it was very traumatic for him, he couldn't wear pants for over 3 weeks, and ran around in a large t-shirt all day. If I were to have another son (not happening I'm 49) but I would have him circumcized. >>

Same here. My youngest is currently healing from a circumcision performed on September 30th. He is 6 years old and this whole thing was way too traumatic for him. It's been absolutely awful for him. :(

Kelly

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Does anyone know/have experience with the incidence of infection in elderly men being uncirc? Does it lead to being circ at their age? Wouldn't staff have to clean this area?

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When people make the arguement that it is not fair to circumcise a baby because they cannot give consent....what about parents who elect to have a child's ears surgically pinned back??? Isn't that not fair as well?

or parents who have their infant's ears pierced.

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Ear piercing hardly can lead to permanent disability and/or disfiguration as a botched or improperly-performed elective circumcision can. I think we are talking apples and oranges when comparing ear-piercing to circumcision here.

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Ear piercing hardly can lead to permanent disability and/or disfiguration as a botched or improperly-performed elective circumcision can. I think we are talking apples and oranges when comparing ear-piercing to circumcision here.

True . . . but still, what IS the point of piercing a baby's ears?

It was such a cool moment for my daughter to get her ears pierced when she was a pre-teen . . . . why take away a kid's big moments just so a parent can decorate their kid?

Just a little pet peeve of mine . ..

steph:)

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we can argue:

what is the point of circumcizing a healthy child?

It truly comes down to personal preference (if not religious rites) in the end.

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we can argue:

what is the point of circumcizing a healthy child?

It truly comes down to personal preference (if not religious rites) in the end.

I agree again. :) It is just that I'm getting tired of helping.

steph

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Gladly I don't have to . Most of our peds refuse to circ til the babies have gone home and are indeed healthy and eating well, first.

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Gladly I don't have to . Most of our peds refuse to circ til the babies have gone home and are indeed healthy and eating well, first.

Ours are usually circ'd an hour before discharge . . . . . :o At least most of the docs use lidocaine.

steph

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Ours are usually circ'd an hour before discharge . . . . . :o At least most of the docs use lidocaine.

steph

My last hospital stopped that practice because they preferred to have the baby in house if anything did go wrong later (bleeding into a diaper for an hour or two at home is a scary thing).

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That's why if i had boy babies, i'd have it done. I wouldn't want them to go through that as an adult.

I've heard this reasoning a lot and I don't really understand it. I would rather an adult who can reason through an experience go through something painful, than an infant in his first days of life, still learning about the world and trust. Even though the procedure IS more painful, with longer recovery time, and of course, the vivid memory present for an adult, I would still choose that over an infant experiencing it. I know men don't remember the experience as infants, but I just worry about trust/mistrust, subconscious trauma and all that. Especially when the odds are in my favor that phimosis will never happen at all.

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