Is it painful to remove the sutures?

Many men will undergo a surgery after adulthood, that is, circumcision surgery due to excessive foreskin. Excessive foreskin will affect the normal sexual experience of men and cause disharmony in the sexual life of men and women. Therefore, men with excessive foreskin should go to the hospital for a circumcision. Men need to take good care of the foreskin after circumcision to prevent infection and remove the stitches in time. So, does it hurt to remove the stitches?

Removing stitches from circumcision is painful, but it is well tolerated. Most circumcisions today use absorbable stitches, which generally do not need to be removed.

For patients who use ordinary silk sutures for sutures, if they are worried about the pain of removing the sutures, they can use 1:5000 potassium permanganate to wash in the morning and evening. Generally, the sutures will fall off in 8-10 days. If they do not fall off, they can go to the hospital to remove the sutures. Generally, the pain can be tolerated during the removal of the sutures, and the removal of the sutures can be completed in 3-5 minutes. If you are worried about the pain, you can give 50mg of diclofenac suppository in the anus before removing the sutures, which can effectively relieve the pain.

If the stitches must be removed after a circumcision, it may be painful to remove them. Because the penis is a very sensitive tissue, the tissue is swollen after circumcision, and the knots are usually tied tightly. Only by pulling the knots can there be a gap, and the knots can be effectively cut, so the stitches are more painful to remove. In order to reduce the pain, you can apply lidocaine gel topically on the circumcision wound, and then remove the stitches after 5-10 minutes, which is not so painful. The stitches should be removed about 7 days after the circumcision, when the wound has healed better. After the stitches are removed, oral antibiotics are required for 1-2 days to effectively prevent incisional inflammation and infection.