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Alternative Medicine & Holistic Treatment of Phimosis, Paraphimosis, and BXO (Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans), Swolen, Closed or Sleightly Tight Prepuce, Unable to Retract... Use Homeopathy.
Wholistic treatment for phimosis, paraphimosis, and BXO (Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans), sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and other reproductive issues that avoid any procedure or surgery can be found with alternative medicine, natural healing, and homeopathy via websites such as http://www.abchomeopathy.com/go.php and http://www.Hpathy.com.'Today, however, the prepuce is considered to be of value to its owner and there is ever increasing interest in the preservation of this tissue. The prepuce has been demonstrated to have immunological functions and properties, which protect its owner from disease, and to be erogenous tissue with important functions in human sexual response.'
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/
Health Benifits of the Foreskin
'This directory contains academic articles and discussions about anatomy, dimensions, immunological functions, innervation, vascularity, sexual function... The articles are indexed in chronological order of publication.'
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Immunological functions of the human prepuce
'A review of the scientific literature, however, reveals that the actual effect of circumcision is the destruction of the clinically-demonstated hygienic and immunological properties of the prepuce and intact penis....The higher rate of STDs in circumcised males might well be the result of the loss of preputial immunoprotective structures. The loss of the protective, self-lubricating, mobile, double-layered prepuce exposes the glans penis and meatus to direct friction, abrasion, and trauma. Eyes without eyelids would not be cleaner. Neither is a glans without its prepuce. The surgically externalized and unprotected glans and meatus of the circumcised penis are constantly exposed to abrasion and dirt, making the circumcised penis less hygienic.27 The circumcised penis is more prone to infection in the first years of life than the intact penis.28-30...These factors may explain why circumcised males are more likely than their genitally intact peers to engage in high risk sexual behaviours (such an anal intercourse and active and passive homosexual oral sex) that lead to HIV and other STD infections.45'
http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/STD/fleiss3/
Immunological functions of the human prepuce, P M Fleiss, F M Hodges, R S Van Howe, STI (London), Volume 74, Number 5, Pages 364-367, October 1998
Circumcision as a Risk Factor for Urethritis in Racial Groups
GREGORY L. SMITH, MD, MPH, ROBERT GREENUP, AND ERNEST TAKAFUJI, MD, MPH
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Volume 77 Number 4: Pages 452-454.
April 1987.
http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/STD/smith/
'When the Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS) reviewed the medical literature and came out against routine circumcision in 1996, I thought the matter was settled... Still, I believe a consensus against circumcision is steadily emerging. In this new era of patient rights, circumcision has come to seem like an anachronism. Among doctors, there is a greater emphasis on informed decision-making, the limits on parents' rights to make decisions about their kids' health and the rights of children to be protected from parents who make wrong decisions. Even some adult men who were unnecessarily circumcised as children are asserting their rights to restitution. And since the balance of medical evidence suggests those who oppose circumcision have the facts on their side, doctors are increasingly refusing to perform circumcisions. Complications from bleeding, amputation, renal failure, sepsis and death are powerful incentives to stop.
Indeed, the media coverage of the incident may speed circumcision for non-religious reasons into the dustbin of medical practice -- alongside many other once-popular procedures, such as the removal of the ovaries for hysteria, tonsillectomy for a sore throat, lobotomy for mental retardation, etc. In a few years, looking like dad or wanting to keep a boy 'clean' may no longer be legally legitimate rationales for circumcision. It's about time they weren't. But it is unethical to continue a practice that is no longer medically defensible and could harm our kids.'
- The growing consensus against circumcision by Jackie Smith
National Post, Toronto, 30 August 2002.
http://www.cirp.org/news/nationalpost08-30-02a/
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How the foreskin protects
against UTI infection
The foreskin contains muscle fibers arranged in a whorl to form a sphincter at the tip of the foreskin.1,2 The sphincter holds the foreskin protectively closed2 except when the child urinates and the pressure of the urine stream forces the sphincter to open, allowing outflow of the urine. Then the sphincter closes again and prevents entry of foreign matter, such as fecal material that contains bacteria. The sphincter of the foreskin keeps contaminants away from the urethra and is added protection against UTI.3
Breastfeeding adds yet another level of protection. Breastfed babies have oligosaccharides in their urine. The oligosaccharides prevent adhesion of E. coli, the fecal bacteria that causes most UTI, to the epithelium of the urinary tract.4 Bacterial adhesion is a prerequisite for infection. Intact babies who are also breastfed have doubled protection against UTI.
Parents and other caregivers should never attempt to retract the foreskin.5,6 Retraction of the foreskin opens the sphincter and allows contaminants to enter. This is especially true at bath time because baby's bathwater may very well contain E. coli from the baby's intestinal tract. The first person to retract the foreskin of a child should be the child himself.5-7
Unfortunately, Army hospitals in the 1980s instructed parents to retract the foreskin to wash—a procedure that has been abandoned because of the danger of contamination by E. coli.8 This may have allowed E. coli to enter the urinary tract and caused the slight increased incidence of UTI reported by Wiswell.
The foreskin has many other protective functions that may help to prevent disease and contribute to good health throughout life.3,9
1. Jefferson G. The peripenic muscle; some observations on the anatomy of phimosis. Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics (Chicago) 1916; 23(2):177-181.
2. Lakshmanan, S. Prakash S. Human prepuce: some aspects of structure and function. Indian J Surg 1980;44:134-137.
3. Fleiss P, Hodges F, Van Howe RS. Immunological functions of the human prepuce. Sex Trans Inf 1998;74:364-367.
4. Coppa GV, Gabrielli O, Giorgi P, et al. Preliminary study of breastfeeding and bacterial adhesion to uroepithelial cells Lancet 1990; 335:569-571.
5. Answers to your questions about your young son's intact penis. San Anselmo CA: National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, 1997.
6. Fleiss PM. Hodges F. What your Doctor May Not Tell you about Circumcision: Untold Facts on America's Most Widely Performed - and most Unnecessary Surgery. New York: Warner Books, 2002. (ISBN: 0-446-67880-5)
7. Wright JE. Further to the 'Further Fate of the Foreskin'. Med J Aust 1994; 160: 134-135.
8. Wiswell TE. Prepuce care. (letter) Pediatrics 1986;7(2):265.
9. Cold CJ, Taylor JR. The prepuce. BJU Int 1999;83 Suppl. 1:34-44.
http://www.nocirc.org/statements/breastfeeding.php
against UTI infection
The foreskin contains muscle fibers arranged in a whorl to form a sphincter at the tip of the foreskin.1,2 The sphincter holds the foreskin protectively closed2 except when the child urinates and the pressure of the urine stream forces the sphincter to open, allowing outflow of the urine. Then the sphincter closes again and prevents entry of foreign matter, such as fecal material that contains bacteria. The sphincter of the foreskin keeps contaminants away from the urethra and is added protection against UTI.3
Breastfeeding adds yet another level of protection. Breastfed babies have oligosaccharides in their urine. The oligosaccharides prevent adhesion of E. coli, the fecal bacteria that causes most UTI, to the epithelium of the urinary tract.4 Bacterial adhesion is a prerequisite for infection. Intact babies who are also breastfed have doubled protection against UTI.
Parents and other caregivers should never attempt to retract the foreskin.5,6 Retraction of the foreskin opens the sphincter and allows contaminants to enter. This is especially true at bath time because baby's bathwater may very well contain E. coli from the baby's intestinal tract. The first person to retract the foreskin of a child should be the child himself.5-7
Unfortunately, Army hospitals in the 1980s instructed parents to retract the foreskin to wash—a procedure that has been abandoned because of the danger of contamination by E. coli.8 This may have allowed E. coli to enter the urinary tract and caused the slight increased incidence of UTI reported by Wiswell.
The foreskin has many other protective functions that may help to prevent disease and contribute to good health throughout life.3,9
1. Jefferson G. The peripenic muscle; some observations on the anatomy of phimosis. Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics (Chicago) 1916; 23(2):177-181.
2. Lakshmanan, S. Prakash S. Human prepuce: some aspects of structure and function. Indian J Surg 1980;44:134-137.
3. Fleiss P, Hodges F, Van Howe RS. Immunological functions of the human prepuce. Sex Trans Inf 1998;74:364-367.
4. Coppa GV, Gabrielli O, Giorgi P, et al. Preliminary study of breastfeeding and bacterial adhesion to uroepithelial cells Lancet 1990; 335:569-571.
5. Answers to your questions about your young son's intact penis. San Anselmo CA: National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, 1997.
6. Fleiss PM. Hodges F. What your Doctor May Not Tell you about Circumcision: Untold Facts on America's Most Widely Performed - and most Unnecessary Surgery. New York: Warner Books, 2002. (ISBN: 0-446-67880-5)
7. Wright JE. Further to the 'Further Fate of the Foreskin'. Med J Aust 1994; 160: 134-135.
8. Wiswell TE. Prepuce care. (letter) Pediatrics 1986;7(2):265.
9. Cold CJ, Taylor JR. The prepuce. BJU Int 1999;83 Suppl. 1:34-44.
http://www.nocirc.org/statements/breastfeeding.php
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