UTI:
- Overall, urinary tract infections (UTI) are lower for males (regardless of whether they are cut) than female infants during the first six months of life.
- Regardless of circumcision status, infants who present with their first UTI at 6 months (or less) are likely to have an underlying genitourinary abnormality.
- In children with a normal underlying anatomy, a study found as many circumcised infants with a UTI as those who retained their foreskin.
- The appropriate treatment for UTI, in males as well as females, is antibiotics, not circumcision.
- According to the AAP, “Urinary tract infections are usually not life threatening and are easily treated in most cases.”.
- Breastfeeding provides some measure of protection against UTI during the first six months of life.
- Since the foreskin is fused to the glans at birth, this helps to keep feces and urine out of the urethra opening.
- Women get them more than men and they take a simple antibiotic to cure it.
- Infections are normal: eyes, ears, throats, they all can get infected yet we treat with antibiotics not amputation.
- The circumcised penis is not immune to infections including sexually transmitted diseases or penile cancer.
- Penile and cervical cancers, urinary tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases have nothing to do with the foreskin itself.
- If you follow proper care of the intact penis you should not have infections.
- In the rare case you do, antibiotics.
- Circumcision and newborn utis: Winberg's solution
- Cultural Bias and the Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Circumcision Controversy
- Circumcision: Is the Risk of Urinary Tract Infection Really the Pivotal Issue?
- Circumstitions: Circumcision and Urinary Tract Infection
- CIRP: Circumcision and urinary tract infection
- How the Foreskin Protects Against UTIs
- Breastfeeding and UTIs