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raw and puss on penis? NAPR

nekoraynenekorayne member
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My son woke up this morning with RAW and slightly bloody skin on his penis and puss in the uretha! I have an appointment at 3:00, but now I'm a nervous wreck and it feels like the longest day! It looks BAD...like skin came off and the yuretha looks streched!

He has had dry skin a lot lately and I feel this should have been a warning sign I should have checked out, but I just put cornstarch and coconut oil on it thinking it was normal. I also stripped the CD just in case. It looked like regular dry skin and the pedi said if he was a bit red it was probably heat rash so I have been treating it like heat rash and dry skin.

On top of it all he is circumcised, something I have always beat myself over. I decided to leave it up to DH and since he is circumcised he automatically thought nothing of it. The thing is I think my DH would have done the researched and we could have decided together if I would have brought it up. But at the time I had never heard much about the anti circumcision debate and I did not think much of it. After research I feel like we did the wrong thing and now I am so worried something is wrong, maybe even due to that?

Has anyone heard of something like this?  

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  • KatieB19KatieB19 member

    My DS is intact (not sure if that's relevant) and we are also doing cloth.  He would occasionally have times where is penis would get really dry (like, skin flaking off) and red/rashy looking.  Putting aquaphor/vaseline/some equivalent of that would help temporarily, but I finally switched detergents for the CDs and he's been fine ever since.  We were using Tide Original and switched to Purex Free&Clear.

    GL at the doctors!  And don't beat yourself up about circumcising him.  It's done, and he is fine!  (And I doubt the current problem has anything to do with that). :) 

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  • SandiaPinaMamaSandiaPinaMama member

    What did the pedi say?  


    BFP#1 "Watermelon" born 3/2011
    BFP#2 "Pumpkin" 7/14/12 ~ EDD 3/23/13 ~ Natural M/C 8/3/12 @ 7 weeks
    BFP#3 "Pineapple"  born 4/2013
    BFP#4 "Grapefruit" EDD 3/29/16
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  • nekoraynenekorayne member
    He somehow must have got  bug bite, that bug probably carried a disease so it got really infected. We are on antibotics and creme for 2 weeks, but it already looks better!
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