Post Date April, 15 2023
Can circumcision cause impotence? In fact, these concerns are unnecessary. Circumcision is a small surgery usually performed in a small operating room in a hospital outpatient department. You don't need to be hospitalized after the surgery to go home. Circumcision surgery generally uses local anesthesia. Before the surgery, anesthesia is injected into the corpus cavernosum on both sides of the penis and around the nerves on the back of the penis. This way, there won't be too much pain during the surgery. In addition, after the anesthesia disappears, the anesthetic will not have any harmful effects on the penis and its nerves, nor will it affect future sexual function.
Circumcision has a certain standard for the length of the foreskin to be removed, usually cutting the foreskin ring to a distance of 0.5-0.8 cm from the coronal sulcus of the penis. This excision range can ensure that the foreskin is not too short after surgery, so that the penis will not experience pain or curvature during erection or sexual activity. After circumcision, the wound is neatly sutured with silk thread, and then wrapped with gauze to complete the surgery. If there are no complications such as infection or bleeding after the surgery, and the wound heals well, the suture can generally be removed within 7 days. It can be seen that circumcision is not dangerous or has no sequelae, and various doubts are unnecessary.
Although circumcision is simple and causes minimal pain, it may also have some adverse consequences if not taken care of before and after the surgery. So, what should be paid attention to before and after circumcision?
1. Choose an appropriate surgical time: If there is an acute infection of the foreskin and the inflammation subsides, surgery should not be performed; If the foreskin has chronic inflammation and long-term non healing, regardless of age, surgery should be carried out as soon as possible to help control inflammation; If the foreskin is too long or phimosis affects sexual activity or infertility, surgery should also be performed. Of course, the best surgical time is to choose before any secondary lesions.
2. Cleaning the genitalia: Starting from 3 days before surgery, soak the genitalia daily with warm water or 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution. When cleaning, turn over the foreskin, expose the coronary groove, and thoroughly remove smegma. However, it should be noted that the foreskin should be promptly repositioned after cleaning to avoid embedding into the foreskin of the penis.
3. Eliminating tension: Due to discomfort in the wound in the first few days after surgery, some people are concerned that it may affect sexual function, which is unnecessary. Generally speaking, circumcision does not affect normal sexual function. On the contrary, if you carry a burden of thought, you may lead to mental dysfunction.
