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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]]. | 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 | |||
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|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 | |||
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|init=AA | |||
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|last2=Erten | |||
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|init2=EE | |||
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|etal=no | |||
|title=Examination of short and long term complications of thermocautery, plastic clamping, and surgical circumcision techniques | |||
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|journal=Pak J Med Sci | |||
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|date=2017-11 | |||
|volume=33 | |||
|issue=6 | |||
|article= | |||
|page= | |||
|pages=1418-23 | |||
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5768836/ | |||
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|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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