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A new study found [[circumcision]] so traumatic that doctors ended the study early rather than subject any more babies to the operation without anesthesia.
Dr. Arthur Gumer of Northside Hospital in Atlanta says circumcision has been thought to provide "protection against infectious diseases later in life which would include either sexually transmitted diseases or urinary tract infections."
Up to 96 percent of the babies in the United States and Canada receive no anesthesia when they are [[circumcised]], according to a report from the {{UNI|University of Alberta|UAlberta}} in Edmonton.
One of the reasons anesthesia is not used, the study found, is the belief that infants feel little or no pain from the procedure. It has also been argued that injecting anesthesia can be as painful as circumcision itself, and that infants don't remember the procedure, anyway.
Rabbi Ariel Asa has performed hundreds of circumcisions. When families request it, he says he puts an anesthetic on the [[skin]], in an effort to reduce some of the [[pain]]. But he admits it's not very effective.
"Due to the fact that ''[[mohel| moyels]]'' (the people who do the procedure) do it very quickly and the [[pain ]] that the baby experiences is minimal, I don't think that the overall benefits are gained," he says.
But the researchers found that while topical anesthetics may help initially, they are woefully inadequate during [[foreskin ]] separation and incision.
They concluded that if [[circumcision]] must be performed, it should be preceded by an injected anesthetic.
In fact, they found the results so compelling that they took the unusual step of stopping the study before it was scheduled to end rather than subjecting any more babies to circumcision without anesthesia.
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* [[Pain]]
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* {{REFweb |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/ |title=Pain of circumcision and pain control |last= |first= |init= |publisher=Circumcision Information Reference Library |date=2006-09-11 |accessdate=2022-10-04}} More here: http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/
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