How long does it take for circumcision edema to disappear?

Most patients with prepuce hyperplasia usually choose to recover through circumcision. However, after the circumcision, postoperative care is also very important. With good postoperative care, the body will recover faster. However, you also need to pay attention to diet. Diet has an auxiliary effect on the recovery of the disease. Generally, edema will occur after circumcision. How long will the edema disappear?

How long does it take for circumcision edema to disappear?

After circumcision, the wound generally heals completely in seven to ten days, but edema may last for two to four weeks, and the edema will gradually subside in about a month at the latest. If the wound edema has not completely subsided after more than a month, it may be caused by certain inflammation or lymphatic reflux obstruction, and magnesium sulfate solution wet compress is needed to effectively promote the subsidence of edema.

Precautions before and after circumcision

Men have to be careful before and after circumcision. They must wash their genitals thoroughly before the operation and be gentle with their penis afterwards because the wound has not yet healed.

Preparation before surgery

1. Please clean your genitals before surgery and wear loose clothes to the hospital. If you want to receive general anesthesia, please ask the doctor in advance what you need to pay attention to.

2. Communicate with the doctor. There are many surgical methods, mainly to remove the excess foreskin on the glans penis, and then suture it to expose the glans penis and the coronal sulcus. If too much foreskin is retained, adhesions between the foreskin and the coronal sulcus may form in the future, forming smegma. If too much foreskin is removed, it may cause pain during erection in the future, so you should communicate with the hospital in advance.

3. This type of surgery needs to be performed in a regular hospital by an experienced doctor. After the surgery, if the baby is stable, he or she can go home for care without hospitalization.

Postoperative care precautions

1. Wipe with a clean towel instead of bathing, and do not let the wound touch water within 5 to 7 days. Babies wearing diapers will inevitably get stained with urine, which requires parents to change diapers for babies frequently.

2. You can take a bath or shower one week after the operation to accelerate the shedding of the scab on the glans. It will generally heal in 2-4 weeks.

3. Do not clean the scab by yourself, because part of the baby's foreskin is stuck to the glans epidermis, and these two parts will be peeled off during the operation. A yellow scab will form on the glans epidermis 1-2 days after the operation, just like an abrasion on the epidermis, which looks like inflammation.