Urology

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Wednesday, December 18, 1996

Study: Urinary Infections Common
After Circumcisions

(December 15) Ritual circumcisers should take more precautions to ensure that the brit mila is carried out under sterile conditions, recommend Assaf Harofe Hospital pediatricians who found urinary infections are more common within the first few weeks after circumcision.

Writing in the Israel Journal of Medical Sciences, Drs. Michael Goldman, Joseph Barr, Tsvy Bistritzer and Mordechai Aladjem all correct spellingnote that over a lifetime, circumcised males suffer fewer urinary infections than the non-circumcised. However, the period soon after the brit is riskier than at other times for the baby.

Over a four-year period, they studied 82 infants with urinary tract infections (UTI): 55 baby girls and 27 boys up to the age of one. The most common age of getting the infection was three weeks in boys and seven months in girls. Cultures found that a variety of bacterial types were responsible.