Do you clean your baby boy's penis? If he is uncircumcised are you supposed to pull the skin back and clean it

Question

Or just wash the outside until he is old enough to clean it himself? My doctor said to leave it. However someone 'older' has said the opposite. And I am not interested in anyones opinion on getting him circumcised thanks.

Answer 1

Are you people just taking wild guesses or what???? I have an uncircumcised son and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not try to pull back that poor child's foreskin! His foreskin doesn't even retract yet, and doing so can cause injury. He is in his natural state, just clean his area like you clean every other area: baby wash, rinse and dry well. I'd like to know how many of these idiots telling you to "pull it back" have actually bathed and uncircumcised boy. Jeez!!
BTW, good job to you for choosing to keep your son intact.

Answer 2

I have 2 boys that are uncircumcised. I did nothing like pulling back the skin and they have been just fine. Here is some info I found hope it helps.




Caring for an uncircumcised penis

The foreskin covers the shaft and head (glans) of a boy’s penis. During the early years of a boy’s life, the foreskin separates from the glans. This is a natural process that occurs over time. You do not need to do anything to make it happen.

When the foreskin separates, it is said to be “retractable,” meaning it can be pulled back.

An uncircumcised penis is easy to keep clean and requires no special care:

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Keep your baby’s penis clean by gently washing the area during his bath. Do not try to pull back the foreskin. Usually, it is not fully retractable until a boy is 3 to 5 years old, or even until after puberty. Never force it.
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When your son is old enough, teach him to keep his penis clean as you’re teaching him how to keep the rest of his body clean.
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When the foreskin separates, skin cells will be shed and new ones will develop to replace them. These dead skin cells will work their way down the penis through the tip of the foreskin and may look like white, cheesy lumps. These are called smegma. If you see them under the skin, you don’t need to force them out. Just wipe them away once they come out.
* When the foreskin is fully retractable, teach your son to wash underneath it each day.

Answer 3

DO NOT PULL BACK THE FORESKIN!!!!!

I am mortified at the "advice" given here. Forceable retraction will be painfull and could cause a serious wound/infection.

I have intact 2 boys, ages 2 & 4.

An NATURAL/NORMAL penis is the easiest to care for. The foreskin is naturally fused to the penis head and unless it is forced open, nothing will get inside.
Now, if your boy poops up the front of his dipe and gets it all over his penis etc, then I might GENTLY clean around the tip to remove any feces. By gently, I mean not really retracting at all, just wiping.

My 4yo can now pull back his foreskin just over the tip. When he's in the bath, I tell hm to do it under the water. he's never had a problem. Only once he can fully retract will he need to clean it more, this will likely be in his later childhood/adolescence.

Remember to never touch an exposed penis, it is very sensitive. So your son should never be told to vigourously clean it....just a light rinsing under the shower is all that is needed (once it retracts naturally)

HTH

Answer 4

Pulling the foreskin back gives more opportunity for infection, ive been told by every doctor and nurse i've encountered. ive asked family friends who too have/have had male children and they all say the same. it can tear the delicate skin and become painful.
For everyone who's saying it poses a risk for std's to breed and so forth,its no differeent to a females vagina being a warm moist skinned area, and I don't hear you all wanting to remove the lips of your/your daughters vaginas. It's an old tradition to circumsize, hence why mosthospitals no longer carry it out unless there is a medical reason for it, because it's unecessary. It's a self cleaning part of the body.

Answer 5

Yes, for proper hygeine you should instill in him during potty training, to gently pull the skin back while he urinates. Then, when he bathes, clean the area gently with washcloth.
If he sees you & or hubby doing it, he will get the message that this is the proper thing to do. You won't even have to explain it, they'll just know that's the way it is supposed to be done. You are the best teacher.
If you don't, all that nasty dried up urine & bacteria could promote the possible equivalent of a UTI.

Answer 6

You must pull the skin back and clean it, all three of my sons are circumsised and I still have to pull the little bit of skin that is there back and there is sometimes gunk built up. If you don't the urine and diaper rash medicine and all the other yucky stuff gets caught in there and can cause serious infection. There was a young woman who had a son, not circumsised and she never pulled the skin back to clean it, and after about a year, he actually got gangrene ( spelling? ) and they had to go in and do some minor, yet painful, surgery to recitify the problem. I pull my sons back every time I change his diaper and wipe with a baby wipe, then at bath time I wash it really well. Make sure to rinse as well, you can't expect bubble bath to clean it well and if the bubbles are left in the folds of the skin that can cause infection, soap residue must be rinsed. I taught my boys how to do it when they were about 3 or 4, but I checked, at that age you can't expect them to be responsbile enough to do it on their won. Now they are 5 and 6 and do a great job. Also my hubby is not circumsised and he is very thourough about pulling the skin back as far as he can and washing VERY well. He says if he doesn't there gets to be a funny smell and it gets very gross.

Answer 7

Both my boys are uncircumcised, and very few docs in this country know how to care for the 'natural' penis
GENTLY push the foreskin back and wash, then rinse well.
It will retract more and more as he grows older. Teach him how to do it in the tub when he is three-four years old. Watch him until he does it properly.
If he should happen to get any redness or swelling of the foreskin, use Bacitraicin ointment under the foreskin after cleaning..

Answer 8

There are all kinds of bacteria that hang out under the foreskin that can lead to some serious infections. He won't be able to wash it himself for several years. You need to pull the foreskin back and gently wash his penis.

That foreskin will also cause problems for his girlfriends/wife later in life as it will become a source for vaginal and urinary tract infections. I had a patient the other day (elderly man) whose foreskin was shrinking around the head of his penis. He could barely pee and he had a really bad infection under it, but there is no way to get to it without circumcision, but the man is 88 years old, so the docs won't do it for him.

Not my opinion, just the facts. Anyhow, you keep it clean and make sure that he keeps it clean once he's old enough to clean it himself.

Answer 9

I cannot get over the horrible advice you people are giving! You NEVER pull the foreskin back. You simply wash the outside like you would a finger. If you retract your sons foreskin before its supposed to be done you can end up with a whole list of problems. It is completely normal to be non-retractable until adulthood! Please, please spare your son the pain and possible infections of forced retraction! No medical organization in the WORLD recommends retraction before it naturally occurs. Here's some helpful links:

Answer 10

With my first boy they told me to pull it back to clean it. Now 2 more boys later they say to leave it be, just wash the out side. None of my boys, they are 5.5, 3.5 and 9weeks, have never had any problems. Plus they say now if you force it back before it has a chance to grow you can accually make it tighter.