How often should I change the medication after circumcision surgery?

Circumcision is a surgery for excessive foreskin. It is usually performed during puberty to allow the foreskin to be repaired better. After circumcision, the dressing should be changed every three days. If the recovery is good, it is also OK to change it every two days. Male friends should listen to the doctor's advice and change the dressing carefully, and pay attention to the hygiene of the penis and their own diet.

The specific situation of dressing change depends on the patient's postoperative wound healing condition. However, generally, the dressing needs to be changed every day for anti-inflammatory purposes in the first three days after surgery. If the recovery is good afterwards, it is also okay to change the dressing once every two days. This can be used as a reference. I hope it will be helpful to you.

At what age can circumcision be performed?

Generally, circumcision is not recommended for children under 10 years old. This is because the child's penis has not yet fully developed. Only after puberty, if the foreskin is too long or the foreskin is phimosis, surgery is still needed. Before puberty, only if the foreskin affects urination or adhesions are considered.

Therefore, it is best to have a circumcision between the ages of 10 and 16, which is also the time when the body grows.

The child's continued growth is not delayed after the skin surgery.

If a child has a prepuce that is too long or a phimosis, do not remove it lightly. Generally speaking, babies will have a prepuce that is too long or a phimosis after birth. These are physiological and normal, and will disappear naturally as the penis grows. More importantly, the foreskin is not a "meal", but one of the normal physiological structures of men. It plays an irreplaceable role in protecting the glans penis from trauma and insect bites, and keeping the glans penis smooth, tender, and sensitive.

If the phimosis is too severe, only the foreskin opening can be seen, but not the urethral opening, and the foreskin cannot be turned up at all, so that the glans penis is always retracted in the glans penis, which will cause urination problems or frequent pain and itching in the glans penis, then surgery will be needed.

Precautions after circumcision surgery

1. Pay special attention to bleeding on the first day after surgery. Pay attention to the blood soaking of the gauze, and ask a doctor to check if necessary. If the bleeding problem is not solved in time, it will cause adverse consequences such as large hematoma in the penis. Therefore, if postoperative bleeding occurs, the wound should be treated in time that night, and surgical exploration and bleeding should be performed if necessary. It is recommended not to wait until the next day.

2. On the second day after the operation, regardless of whether there are any questions or discomfort, it is recommended to return to the hospital and ask the doctor to check the wound, remove the dirty gauze contaminated by blood, disinfect the wound and replace it with a new dressing.

3. A certain amount of antibiotics must be used in the first three days after surgery to prevent wound infection.

4. After the operation, it is recommended to go to the hospital every 2 days to change the wound dressing, disinfect the wound, and ask the doctor to check whether the wound has secondary infection. If necessary, add antibiotics to facilitate wound healing after the operation. If the gauze is accidentally soaked or dirty by urine, you should go to the hospital to change the dressing at any time to prevent the wound from being soaked and infected.

5. Adult males should take estrogen drugs within the first five days after surgery and avoid external sensory stimulation by diverting attention to prevent problems such as penile erection pain and secondary bleeding. If the doctor does not provide such drugs, you should take the initiative to ask the doctor to provide such drugs. Since it is taken for a short period of time, there is no need to worry about the side effects of estrogen.

6. The wound can usually be sutured on the 7th to 9th day after surgery. You can consult your doctor for the specific time of suture removal. The doctor will extend the suture removal time by 1-2 days if necessary based on the individual wound healing situation. If the surgery uses absorbable sutures or ligature rings, there is no need to remove the sutures. The specific type of sutures should be consulted with the doctor.

7. From the second day after the operation to within half a month, try to use underwear to hold up the penis at any time, so that the penis is upright (urethra opening upward), except when urinating. This has many benefits, and can avoid swelling, infection and secondary bleeding of the foreskin and frenulum.

8. After the stitches are removed, if there is still a small part of the foreskin wound that has not healed or has not healed well, you can buy erythromycin ointment or moist burn ointment at the pharmacy and apply it to the unhealed wound 3-5 times a day. It will heal itself within 3 days.

9. For adults, it is usually necessary to wait 2 weeks after the operation, preferably 3 weeks, before having sex. Having sex too early may cause the wound that has just healed to rupture again, prolonging the recovery time after the operation.