Is Ritual Circumcision A Risk Factor For Neonatal Urinary Tract Infections?
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Article Date: 17 Jan 2009 - 4:00 PDT
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UroToday.com - In a recent journal article, Dr. Dario Prais et al. evaluated the burden of neonatal UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) in Israel and its relationship to circumcision. The group first reviewed medical records of neonates (T2 months old) hospitalized with UTI. The second part of the study consisted of a telephone survey to assess timing and details concerning the circumcision. The study group consisted of male infants, aged 8-30 days, hospitalized with UTI and a control group consisting of healthy neonates.
162 neonates (108 males, 54 females) were hospitalized with UTI. Mean age at admission was significantly lower in males (27.5 vs. 37.7 days, p=0.0002). The incidence of UTI in males peaked at 2-4 weeks of age. In females, the incidence tended to rise with age.
Accordingly, male predominance disappeared at 7 weeks and the male-to-female ratio reversed. In the second part of the study, 111 males (T1 month old) were included: 48 post-UTI and 63 as a control group. While evaluating the impact of circumcision technique, they found that UTI occurred in 6 of the 24 (25%) infants circumcised by a physician and in 42 of the 87 (48%) infants circumcised by a religious authority.
The group found that the incidence of UTI in males peaked during the early post-circumcision period, as opposed to the age-related rise in females. Interestingly, they also found that UTI seems to occur more frequently after traditional circumcision than after physician performed circumcision.
Prais D, Shoov-Furman R, Amir J
Arch Dis Child. 2008 Oct 6. Epub ahead of print.
doi:10.1136/adc.2008.144063
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Ritual Circumcision
posted by Jesus Christ Flappie ben meestal een lieve rabbit on 17 Jan 2009 at 9:18 amI agree with the article that there must acted by physisians when there is to speak of circumsizion.
I disagree ritual circumcision.
I see more in: Let the child decide, whether or not(in general), that's what the natives in USA already for thousands of years do.
How can you force an innocent child, whether it's born no matter where.
I see absolutely nothing in womens circumsuzion, that's a crime to my opinion.
For the woman it's better that a man is helped, because of the preventionous way of internal sanity. It's proven that women with a man who is circumcized have 80 % less chance of cancer in the internals.
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