Penile adhesions

[vanillacourage]

DS2 is circ'd and has had minor penile adhesions at his 2 and 4 month well-baby visits. The pedi said they were not bad and happen all the time, and quickly fixed them. We never had this issue with DS1 but he's a string bean and I've heard that fat babies' pudginess can make the foreskin push forward and exacerbate the adhesions.

We try to push the foreskin all the way back in the bath but I'm never sure if it looks right and this is not something I want to google! Anyone have experience with this?

[sewpinkgal]

J had one that resolved itself fully between his 6 and 9 month appts. His pedi showed me how to push the skin back and what it should look like once it was good and we did it religiously every night in the bath. I just basically made sure I could see the "ring" of skin at the base of the tip of his penis and made sure it was clean.

I haven't had to do anything for it in several months. If you have any other questions, let me know.

[lishie]

My son had a hypospadius that was repaired about a year ago. They still left a good bit of the foreskin on it in case they need to do a follow up repair when he's older. He's had some adhesions following the surgery. Even a year later, it looks nothing like my other son's at that age. I asked the surgeon and my pedi about it, and they're insistent that i do nothing to them. The doctors told me to only move it back to clean it, and to be gentle doing that. I was told the adhesions will slowly stretch as DS2 gets older and to not worry about it. I've tried my best not to.

[slug*bug]

Sept 19, 2012 7:06:47 GMT -5 lishie said:

I was told the adhesions will slowly stretch as DS2 gets older and to not worry about it. I've tried my best not to.

Ditto lishie: we received varying advice from different pedis in our group, but the more seasoned docs seemed to agree that it was most likely that the adhesions would resolve on their own (periodic erections, growth, etc.)

We were given the option of doing something on the spot, but none of the docs felt that there was a huge benefit vs. the wait and see approach (one even gave us an article discussing it....obviously it depends on the degree of adhesion, but there is apparently some evidence that breaking the adhesions suddenly causes some mini-trauma that makes it more likely the area will re-adhere, so he wasn't keen on it vs. waiting.)

[scribellesam]

My DS is quite large and has had adhesions at 2mo and 4mo appointments. My pedi doesn't seem worried and said it would likely resolve by a year. I hope so - my friend's son had to have minor surgery to resolve his at 14mo.