Cleaning your baby boy can protect against future sexually transmitted infections.Men who are circumcised are less likely to sexually transmitted infections such as genital herpes and human papillomavirus (HPV), but not syphilis.This finding — in a March, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published — is added to the proof that there are health benefits to the circumcision, the surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis, usually performed on newborns shortly after birth. It was already known that circumcision reduces the risk of penile cancer, a relatively rare disease, as well as the risk of HIV infection can reduce.
It's not who you are, but what you read moreBut in the United States, newborn circumcision is an elective procedure and rates fall. In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics proof of the potential risks, benefits and costs of circumcision, and declined to revise the procedure for all newborns recommend.Circumcision never strictly must be carried out because it seems to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections, experts agree, and it is important to note that circumcision is not adequate protection must be considered. Practicing safe sex, including the use of condoms, is still needed to ensure the best protection, whether a person is circumcised or not.
Still, many scientists hope that this new research recommending bodies, both in the United States and around the world, appearance of circumcision benefits can convince another.
Circumcision remains a controversial subject
In the United States is decreasing infant circumcision. Approximately 64% of American male children were circumcised in 1995, down from more than 90% in the 1970s. Rates are usually higher in white (81%) than in blacks (65%) or Hispanics (54%).
Some opponents say that the removal of the foreskin is an unnecessary surgical procedure that sexual sensitivity in adulthood can reduce. In Jewish and Islamic cultures, young or baby boys routinely circumcised for religious reasons. Circumcision rates are traditionally higher in the us than in Europe, but the American Academy of Pediatrics currently says that the medical benefits are insufficient to recommend circumcision for all baby boys.
Study co-author Thomas c. Quinn, MD, professor of global health at the Johns Hopkins University, says that circumcision, choose whether the parents of a child or an adult male for themselves, and an individual decision must remain.
"But the critics must really look at the advantages over the risks," he adds. "Now a large body of evidence has shown that the health benefits clearly outweigh the small risk with the operation. In our study we don't see any adverse effects or mutilation. We recommend are supervised, safe, sterile environments — not circumcision performed in an open field with rusty instruments. "
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