Patient's question:
[Description of condition: How to maintain cleanliness of the foreskin? Treatment history and effectiveness: How to maintain cleanliness of the foreskin? What help do you want: How to maintain cleanliness of the foreskin?]Doctor's answer:
[Expert Answer from Urology Specialist: Generally speaking, parents tend to pay more attention to cultivating good habits in girls to clean their external genitalia daily, while being more lenient with boys. After boys enter puberty, their glans penis will produce secretions. If these are not cleaned promptly, they will naturally dry and form smegma. This smegma can easily cause inflammation. In fact, there are indeed very few boys who, due to prolonged neglect in cleaning their penis foreskin, develop conditions such as balanitis, phimosis, or adhesion of the foreskin, leading to unnecessary suffering and even complications in future married life. The irritation caused by smegma is also one of the potential triggers for penile cancer. Therefore, boys should develop the good habit of cleaning their external genitalia daily with clean lukewarm water. The method is simple—just retract the foreskin, wash it with lukewarm water, and then dry it with a warm, damp towel.]