What is phimosis?

Phimosis separation is a relatively common surgery. For those who need to undergo phimosis separation, it is necessary to understand the relevant knowledge of phimosis separation! So what is phimosis separation? Next, this article will introduce you to the relevant content of phimosis separation for your reference. Please see the specific introduction below.

Phimosis generally refers to the foreskin and glans sticking together, which is difficult to turn over. Phimosis is mostly caused by the inner plate of the foreskin skin adhering to the coronal sulcus and glans. Adhesion often causes recurrent attacks of balanitis because the inflammation causes a large amount of fluid to leak out, which causes adhesion after absorption. Although most adhesions do not affect sexual life and will not cause disease, if adhesions cause penile erection pain, it will affect sexual life. Therefore, it is better to undergo surgical treatment as soon as possible for phimosis to avoid more difficult treatment in the future.

What is phimosis surgery?

1. Circumcision can be used for severe foreskin adhesions, which are mostly caused by the adhesion of the inner plate of the foreskin skin to the coronal sulcus and the glans. This is the result of repeated attacks of foreskin and glans inflammation. Foreskin adhesion inflammation causes a large amount of inflammatory exudate, which causes adhesions after absorption. The surgery needs to be carefully separated, otherwise the appearance of the glans may change. Some patients will have different shades of pigment on the glans skin after the separation surgery, and they will appear mottled.

2. If there is no adhesion, manual treatment can be used. After disinfection, 2% dicaine is used for anesthesia. The foreskin opening is expanded until the foreskin can be turned up. Foreskin edema may occur within a few days after separation, which can be eliminated by soaking in warm salt water. If the foreskin adhesion has not been significantly relieved, the same method can be used to treat it again. This non-surgical treatment of foreskin adhesion does not cause bleeding, infection, or need to remove stitches, so it is easy for children and their families to accept.

3. The treatment of phimosis and foreskin adhesion can be performed at various ages of children, such as newborns and infants (0-1 years old), toddlers (1-3 years old), preschoolers (3-7 years old), and school age (7-15 years old).

It should be noted that although circumcision is a very small outpatient surgery, it can also cause foreskin adhesions if the operation is not done carefully. This is because too much skin is retained on the penis body during the operation, which will go beyond the coronal sulcus and attach to the outside of the glans penis after the operation, eventually leading to adhesions. Most postoperative adhesions will not affect sexual life, nor will they cause inflammation and malignancy, so there is no need to worry about it. If adhesions cause abnormal penile erection and affect sexual life, surgery should be performed again. Adhesions need to be carefully separated, and plastic surgery is required if necessary.

The above is the introduction about the phimosis. I believe that after reading the above introduction, you already know what the phimosis is. From the above introduction, we can see that the phimosis is a minor surgery, which is very effective in treating phimosis. Therefore, friends in need can learn about the relevant knowledge of the phimosis!