Patient's question:
Medical history: 22 years old, phimosis seems to have no significant impact on health. Past treatment history and effectiveness: No medical treatment, no doctor visits. Desired help: Please ask if phimosis has a significant impact on health and if surgery is necessary.Doctor's answer:
Hello, phimosis can be harmful to the body. If the glans cannot be retracted, it may affect sexual life. At the same time, it is mainly due to poor hygiene, as smegma can be harmful to penile cancer. Therefore, it is recommended that you consider surgical treatment. You should also clean it more often and maintain cleanliness! After suffering from phimosis, long-term chronic irritation from urine and smegma can cause the foreskin and glans mucosa to become edematous, congested, eroded, and repeatedly cross-infected, leading to phimosis and glans inflammation, phimosis adhesion, phimosis stones, and even phimosis entrapment, resulting in severe consequences such as phimosis and glans necrosis. At the same time, it can also transmit various pathogens to the female body through sexual life, leading to diseases such as vaginitis, cervicitis, cervical erosion, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis, and cervical cancer. There is a possibility of inducing penile cancer.