Post Date April, 15 2023
1. Distinguish between redundant prepuce and phimosis
Too long prepuce refers to the prepuce covering the urethral orifice, which can turn up and expose the urethral orifice and glans. The phimosis is that the opening of the prepuce is small, and the urethra and glans cannot be exposed or partially exposed when turned up.
2. What is the harm of phimosis or excessive foreskin
(1) Obstruction of penis development: In children, before puberty, because the penis is tightly wrapped by the foreskin, it is like wearing "small shoes", which directly affects the reproductive development of the penis.
(2) The phimosis or long foreskin can cause inflammation of the foreskin and glans. When the foreskin is too long, it often causes pruritus, odor, increase of foreskin scale, infection and other conditions, then it is necessary to keep clean and wash frequently. If the symptoms do not improve, it is necessary to operate
Phimosis has more influence on human body than long foreskin. Scales in the foreskin of phimosis will accumulate in the foreskin for a long time, causing adhesion and balanitis of the foreskin, and repeated infection for a long time can lead to balanitis. Therefore, surgical treatment is recommended for patients with phimosis.
(3) It can cause prostatitis and even damage kidney function:
(4) There is a risk of cancer.
(5) Impact on sperm quality: phimosis and excessive prepuce can cause urethritis and prostatitis. Over time, it can affect sperm quality and lead to infertility.
(6) It is easy to affect women's health: foreskin and phimosis will not only cause harm to men, but may also bring some serious gynecological diseases to sexual partners, causing vaginitis, cervicitis, cervical erosion, and cervical cancer in severe cases.
(7) Affect urine flow. Because the prepuce mouth is too small, or because the prepuce and glans form adhesion, the prepuce is too long, which can become phimosis due to inflammation and adhesion, and the condition of phimosis is more serious than that of the prepuce.
(8) It is easy to be infected and sexually transmitted diseases: sediment in urine and urine scale accumulate in the foreskin and become bacterial culture agent. It is easy to suffer from sexually transmitted diseases such as condyloma acuminatum and gonorrhea. Modern medicine has proved that after prepucectomy, the probability of suffering from sexually transmitted diseases can be reduced, and even sexually transmitted diseases can be prevented.
Therefore, patients with phimosis and redundant prepuce should go to the hospital as soon as possible, and the specialist should decide whether to perform circumcision according to different conditions.
