Post Date December, 03 2023
Not long ago, the Department of Pediatrics of Qixia People's Hospital in Shandong Province received a 3-year-old boy with genital infection and redness. After urine examination, Ma Xiang'e, the deputy chief physician of the Department of Pediatrics, finally confirmed that it was 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 first.
It is normal for parents to wash their children's buttocks after defecation, but for young boys, many parents are still not doing enough. In childhood, the foreskin of the penis is covered with the glans, and its temperature is high and humidity is high, so it is easy for bacteria to breed and cause inflammation; It is also easy to produce some white substances, which are called foreskin scale.
The place where the foreskin covers the glans is the "hiding place", which is an important cleaning place. Therefore, parents should often gently open the foreskin of the child to expose the glans and wash it with clean warm water. When cleaning, the action should be light, and the liquid and soap containing medicinal ingredients should not be used to avoid injury, irritation and allergic reaction. After cleaning, gently dry the foreskin and gently turn it back. There are also some boys who are too tight or born with narrow foreskin. Do not turn the foreskin forcefully. Otherwise, it will cause trauma or incarcerated phimosis. For such children, in addition to maintaining local cleanness 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.
