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Parents face so many difficult decisions when it comes to having a child: decisions about nursing, sleep patterns, discipline, teaching methods and, in the case of boys, whether or not to circumcise. In addition to being the most common surgery for males in the U.S., circumcision has been practiced in various cultures for centuries. Yet when it comes to the health and best interest of your newborn, is circumcision the way to go?
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NOCIRC Seems to be Unaware of Anesthesia
EMLA health warning
Health Canada has just issued a warning against the local anaesthetic cream (EMLA) that Prof. Schoen recommends, especially in the case of children:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/medeff/advisories-avis/public/_2009/emla_ametop_pc-cp-eng.php
and the manufacturers once warned against using it on babies, but stopped doing so for no apparent reason.
Anaesthetic only works for a few hours, but the pain of circumcision, when urine enters the wound, lasts for weeks.
"there is no evidence that European men, who are uncircumcised, have fewer emotional difficulties than do the 120 million American males who are."
- except that there are tens of thousands of US men who are so enraged by having been circumcised that they are going to considerable trouble to reverse it, and branches of NORM, the National Organization of Restoring Men, all across the US. There are none in Europe (except NORM-UK), for an obvious reason.
- Hugh7
March 18, 2009 7:54PM
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