Post Date December, 03 2023
Not long ago, the Department of Pediatrics of Qixia City People's Hospital in Shandong Province received a 3-year-old boy with genital infection and redness. After urinalysis, Ma Xiang'e, the deputy chief physician of the Department of Pediatrics, finally diagnosed as foreskin scaling, which was caused by long-term debris infection. To this end, Ma Xiang'e reminded parents to often use clean water to lower their children's bodies first.
It is normal for parents to wash their children's buttocks after they have defecated, but for young boys, many parents still do not do enough. In childhood, the foreskin of the penis is wrapped around the glans, with high temperature and humidity inside, making it easy for bacteria to reproduce and cause inflammation; Moreover, it is also easy to produce some white substances called foreskin scale.
The place where the foreskin covers the glans is an "hiding place" and an important cleaning area. Therefore, parents should often gently open the child's foreskin to expose the glans, and wash it with clean warm water. When cleaning, the action should be gentle, and avoid using liquids and soaps containing pharmaceutical ingredients to avoid causing trauma, irritation, and allergic reactions. After cleaning, gently dry the foreskin and gently turn it back. There are also some boys who have tight foreskin openings or are born with very narrow foreskins, so it is important not to forcefully flip the foreskin. Otherwise, it may cause trauma or incarcerated phimosis. For such children, in addition to regular attention to maintaining local cleanliness and dryness, phimosis surgery should be performed in the urology department of a regular hospital at the age of 4-6 years before school age.
