What is a child's foreskin?

Children with redundant prepuce refers to prepuce covering urethral orifice, but can turn up, exposing urethral orifice and glans penis.

Due to narrow prepuce orifice, it may lead to difficulty urinating, slow and fine urine flow, and prepuce swelling when urinating. In severe cases, urine may accumulate in prepuce when urinating, forming foreskin scale, and even inducing urinary system infection. In addition, excessive prepuce is warm and humid, easy to breed bacteria, causing glans forestis, manifested as local redness, pain, itching, purulent secretions, etc. If inflammation occurs repeatedly, it may affect penis development.

For children with redundant prepuce, parents need to pay close attention to it. At ordinary times, they should pay attention to the cleanliness of their external genitals and wash them regularly. If abnormal urination is found, repeated inflammation, they should seek medical advice promptly, and doctors will assess whether surgery is needed according to specific circumstances, such as circumcision.