The phrase
"uncircumcised boys" refers to boys who have not had a surgical procedure called circumcision, where a small piece of skin called the foreskin is removed from the tip of the penis.
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Approximately one in 1,000 boys that are circumcised has a UTI in his first year of life, compared to about one in 100
uncircumcised boys.
The fact that the foreskin is narrow in baby boys is normal and there was recently a research study published, in which the occurence of UTI is
uncircumcised boys had been examined.
For
an uncircumcised boy, avoid pulling back the foreskin.
«A brand new baby shouldn't be subjected to having a piece of their penis cut off,» says Amanda Johnson, a mom of two
uncircumcised boys.
The task force based this policy on 40 years of studies of both circumcised and
uncircumcised boys, and it concluded the following: