Is it painful to remove foreskin stitches?

Many men undergo an operation as adults, which is circumcision due to excessive foreskin. Excessive foreskin will affect men's normal sexual intercourse experience and cause disharmony in the sexual life of men and women. Therefore, it is best for men with excessive foreskin to go to the hospital for circumcision surgery. After men are circumcised, they need to take good care to prevent infection and remove the stitches in time when the time is almost up. So, is it painful to remove the foreskin stitches? Foreskin surgery to remove the stitches is more painful, but it can be tolerated effectively. Most current circumcision surgeries use absorbable sutures, which generally do not need to be removed.

For patients who use ordinary silk threads for suturing, if they are worried about pain when removing stitches, they can soak them with 1:5000 potassium permanganate in the morning and evening. Generally, 8-10 threads will fall off. If it does not fall off, you can go to the hospital to have the stitches removed. Generally, you can tolerate the pain when removing the stitches, and the stitches can be removed in 3-5 minutes. If you are worried about pain, you can give diclofenac suppository in the anus before removing the sutures, which can effectively relieve pain.

If it is clear that the stitches must be removed after the circumcision surgery, you may feel some pain during the removal of the stitches. Because the penis is a very sensitive tissue, and there is edema in the tissue after circumcision surgery, the stitches are usually tied tightly. Only by pulling the knots can there be a gap and the knots can be effectively cut, so it is more painful to remove the stitches. In order to reduce the pain, lidocaine gel can be applied topically on the circumcision wound, and the stitches can be removed after 5-10 minutes, which is less painful. The sutures should be removed about 7 days after the circumcision, so that the wound heals better. After the sutures are removed, oral antibiotic treatment is required for 1-2 days, which can effectively prevent incision inflammation and infection.