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|note=Jan-Feb 2006
}}</ref> Ammonia forms in diapers (nappies) after the urine is exposed to air. The circumcised infant boys is kept in ammoniacal diapers for many long hours, so the exposed meatus suffers and becomes inflamed.<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