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Meatitis occurs in [[circumcised ]] male infants because of the loss of the [[Immunological_and_protective_function_of_the_foreskin#The_protective_and_hygienic_function_of_the_foreskin| natural protection]] provided by the [[foreskin]].<ref name="vanhowe2006">{{REFjournal |last=Van Howe |init=RS |author-link=Robert S. Van Howe |title=Incidence of meatal stenosis following neonatal circumcision in a primary care setting |journal=Clin Pediatr (Phila) |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=49-54 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000992280604500108 |quote= |pubmedID=16429216 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1177/000992280604500108 |date=2006-01 |accessdate=2020-01-09 |note=Jan-Feb 2006}}</ref> Ammonia forms in diapers (nappies) after the urine is exposed to air. [[Circumcised]] infant boys are kept in ammoniacal diapers for many long hours, so the exposed [[meatus]] suffers and becomes inflamed from the action of the ammonia.<ref name="brenneman1921">{{REFjournal |last=Brennemann |init=J |author-link= |last2= |init2= |author2-link= |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/brennemann1/ |title=The ulcerated meatus in the circumcised child |journal=Am J Dis Child |date=1921 |volume=21 |issue= |pages=38-47 |accessdate=2022-01-19}}</ref> Tuncer & Erten (2017) collected information regarding complications of [[circumcision]] from hospital records in Turkey. They reported one case of meatitis.<ref name="tuncer2017">{{REFjournal |last=Nusrel |first= |init=AA |author-link= |last2=Erten |first2= |init2=EE |author2-link= |etal=no |title=Examination of short and long term complications of thermocautery, plastic clamping, and surgical circumcision techniques |trans-title= |language= |journal=Pak J Med Sci |location= |date=2017-11 |volume=33 |issue=6 |article= |page= |pages=1418-23 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5768836/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=29492070 |pubmedCID=5768836 |DOI=10.12669/pjms.336.13640 |accessdate=2022-01-19}}</ref> This is highly suspect and deceptive because meatitis is a late complication that would be unlikely to develop until after the patients leave hospital and so would not be captured by hospital records. Meatitis may progress to [[meatal stenosis]].

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