(1) Circumcision will prevent several conditions that cause an accumulation of fluid and swelling around the foreskin and glans, as well as a problem known as phimosis , which is the inability to retract the foreskin.(2) Some doctors are prescribing steroid creams for phimosis , but this is unnecessary in children, since the foreskin does not need to be retractable in young boys.(3) Paraphimosis must be distinguished from phimosis , a nonemergency condition in which the foreskin cannot be pulled back.(4) Excessive retraction can also damage the skin leading to scarring and real phimosis .(5) If you have phimosis and you keep getting repeat attacks of balanitis, then circumcision (removal of the foreskin) may be considered.(6) On an uncircumcized penis (only), a phimotic ring is a hardened, calloused or keratinized ring at the end (tip) of the foreskin.(7) This site discusses phimosis in its specific forms of phimotic ring, frenulum breve, adhesions or skinbridges.
