The number of newborn circumcision practices has been increasing in our country in recent years.
What are the Advantages of Newborn Circumcision?
The risk of urinary tract infection is reduced in babies who have undergone newborn circumcision. In scientific studies, it has been shown that uncircumcised babies are 8 to 20 times more likely to get urinary tract infection than the circumcised group.
It can only be done with local anesthesia. Since the veins in the foreskin are very small, serious bleeding is almost never seen. Post-circumcision care is very easy, recovery is fast.
In Which Situations Neonatal Circumcision Is Not Applied?
- If the baby is premature or sick,
- Hamophilia in the family disease,
- It cannot be applied if there is a congenital penile anomaly such as hypospadias.
Do Babies Feel Pain During Circumcision?
Newborn babies also feel pain. For this reason, local anesthetic drugs are applied with a very fine needle to numb the operation area before circumcision. There is no need to apply general anesthesia in this age group.
Is there a need for the baby to fast before the newborn circumcision?
Newborn circumcision is performed with local anesthesia. Therefore, the baby does not need to be hungry. When the procedure is performed on a full stomach, the baby mostly sleeps during circumcision. There is no harm in feeding the baby after circumcision.
When and Where Should Newborn Circumcision Be Performed?
Newborn circumcision is mostly 24-48 hours after the baby is born; If there is no obstacle to circumcision, it is performed in the operating room, on a specially heated and illuminated table.
Newborn circumcision is performed with the bell method in our urology department and very thin sutures are used.
Circumcision takes about 15-20 minutes.
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What Is Done After Circumcision Care in Babies?
For post-circumcision care, baby nurses take care of the baby, and they also inform the family about this before going home and show them how to apply the creams. It is applied on the area 4-5 times a day and covered with sterile gauze against contamination or sticking. Babies are checked by the circumcised doctor on the 3rd or 4th day after circumcision. The sutures placed dissolve on their own and fall off and do not need to be removed.
Although it is a very simple and risk-free operation, there may be complications less than 1% during and after the procedure. It is performed by an experienced specialist in sterile conditions, following surgical principles. If proper care is taken after the procedure, it will be possible to avoid these rare complications. The main ones are; bleeding, infection, narrowing of the foreskin (phimosis) and skin adhesions due to insufficient circumcision. The physician approves the newborn bath.
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