It is not normal for every infant or kid to be circumcisied. Circumcision is a surgical treatment to remove the foreskin covering the penis’s end in a kid. Sometimes a child is born with two instead of one flaps covering. In such an instance it becomes essential for a kid to have circumcision surgery.
It is done for medical, personal and religious reasons.
Fun Fact: Did you know that a baby boy’s foreskin will not pull fully till the child reaches the age of 5.
It is a wrong belief that circumcision treatment is harmful. On the contrary, it is safe and we do any surgery only after studying the cause of circumcision in a kid. If it’s for a medical reason we conduct a proper diagnosis before the surgery.
There are many ways utilised by us to check if a baby has a circumcised penis. These are always used and recommended by our Doctor.
Physical examination- The Doctor can find the circumcised penis by looking at the penis of a baby. If the foreskin doesn’t pull back till the age of 5 then he recommends the surgery.
We use the surgical method to remove the penis foreskin and recommend it to be performed by the age of 1 year. At this age, it is easy to care for a child’s penis. The surgery we do is painless and the child will remain sedated till the surgery is complete.
The surgery is recommended normally 72 hours after the child’s birth.
There are 4 major steps involved in a circumcision surgery which are:
We recommend you to follow these steps after a child’s surgery to quicken the healing process.