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==Penile care for adolescents and teens==
By the onset of puberty, most but not all boys have a retractable foreskin. Boys with a retractable foreskin should retract and wash their foreskin when they bathe. Use of soap, shampoo, and body wash on the mucosa inside the foreskin should be avoided because it dries the oils from the mucosal tissue.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Birley
|first=HDL
|author-link=
|last2=Luzzi
|first2=G A
|author2-link=
|last3=Bell
|first3=R
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Clinical features and management of recurrent balanitis: association with atopy and genital washing
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Clinical features and management of recurrent balanitis: association with atopy and genital washing
|location=
|date=1993
|volume=69
|issue=5
|pages=400-3
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1195128/pdf/genitmed00029-0074.pdf
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=Clinical features and management of recurrent balanitis: association with atopy and genital washing
|pubmedCID=8244363
|DOI=10.1136/sti.69.5.400
|accessdate=2020-05-28
}}</ref> Warm water is sufficient for cleaning.
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