The other day I read a question about penile adhesion. It got me thinking about my four month old. He 'turtles' horribly, to the point of where it almost looks like he was not circumsized at all (a 'grower' not a show-er' as my hubby likes to say). The pedi told me it was due to his fat pad and very normal so I thought nothing else about it. Well, after I read the post I went and really looked at my son and at first glance looked normal and then I realized his skin had reattached so that it was even with the head, in otherwords, the head had no 'flair' to it.
The other lady's advisors kindly told her to pull it apart, ect. ect. So i stupidly did it and it worked for the most part. I was actually shocked at the amount of area that had been covered that I somehow didn't notice until now. It did not bleed (thank goodness!) but is very red and irritated and raw.
Question: Due to the fat pad that keeps it covered most of the time and may trap urine and stool, is it okay to put neosporin on it on a daily basis? Or should I stick with just vasoline or diaper cream and hope it doesn't get infected while it tries to reheal?
When my son was really young like that, his ped told me to pull it back. He did at the visit (my son did. not. like. it. one. bit.), then told me to keep an eye on it. I put Neosporin+Pain on it while it was really red, then only at night for a while. At each diaper change, I would pull it back a little and use a wipe to clean all around the "fireman hat" so it would not re-adhere. Now that he is older, it is fine.
I used to work for a hand surgeon who was completely against neosporin for anything. He felt like neosporin just trapped bacteria in and didn't allow the skin to breath. So I am very careful about using neosporin. That being said my little boy had the same problem and my pediatrician said to keep it very clean, pull the skin back at every diaper change and bath time and then use vasoline.
Just so you know it was an ongoing problem for about the first whole year. and I still continue to pull the skin back one or twice a day to be sure it's not adhereing again (he's 19 months old now)
We used A&D ointment but Vasoline is good also. You dont want to use Neosporin as it isnt a "boo boo" you really just need to keep it moist so the skin doesnt adher again. My son had this problem and I still have to make sure he pulls the skin back to clean in the bath tub and he is almost 4. We have come to the conclusion that it will be better for him to have extra skin rather than getting it cut again and possibly not having enough skin.
Just keep it clean and push that skin back daily.
I would do the neosporin it is like Vaseline except with anti bacterial properties. Good luck !
J.
My son is 13 weeks old and also looks as if he was not circumsized. My doctor told me it was just because the dr. left extra skin and he would grow into it. She also told me I had to pull back on it much further than I was and to continue to put vaseline on it as long as it was red. She told me we would have to do this for much longer than we did with our other son because the extra skin is more likely to reattach. The doc said vaseline was enough and only needed as long as it was red, but the pulling back would need to continue until he grew into it. Hope this helps.
let me start off by saying that I have not read any responses yet.
My son had the same thing and when he was about 13 months old he had to have surgery due to him having what is called hydrocele. So when they were fixing that, the doctor went ahead and just "re-circumsized" him in a way. They pulled the skin back surgically and let me just say, that now that he is going to be 3, it has grown back around it again. (Not trying to sound dirty or anything, but there is no other way to word it) Im hoping that when he starts to grow down there, that it will fix the problem. Our pediatrician told us to put polysporin on it. So I buy the generic (cause it is the same stuff only like so much cheaper) from walmart i think (it is like bactarin-spelling is probably wrong, but it starts with a B), Any way, we put that on after every time I pull it back, about 2-3 times a day, for sure at bedtime and when he wakes up and then maybe right before or after a nap. We pull the skin back and make sure we wipe him off with a wipe because there is build up that happens that is white and it can smell really bad. When my son gets "big" enough, I think we might have to take him in to have the doc pull it back again. I hope this helps ya~ Oh and one more thing, make sure whenever you give a bath that you pull the skin back and clean it in soapy water also, not just with a wipe~
Our doc said "Sure. Absolutely."
Neosporin, after all, is just vaseline with antimicrobials in it.
Also gave us a steroid cream because it thins the membranes... but he's uncut.
My son had this problem too. The pediatrician told me to put Vasaline on it every diaper change. I didn't do it EVERY change, and when he went to a dr visit well-check, it was red and raw when the pediatrician pullled it back. Son cried in pain. Pedi reminded me to do it EVERY TIME with vasaline. I don't remember putting on Neosporin and it healed just fine. My son's two and I still put Vasaline on it after baths to help give it some 'slide.'
I would just do the Vasaline. Neosporin is an anti-biotic and doing it every day will be too much. Your son could become unresponsive to anti-biotics if they're overused (just like an oral anti-biotic).
