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Infant Dies Of Infection After Circumcision In Canada Hospital
allheadlinenews.com ^ | 06/14/07 | Valerie Chang

Posted on 06/14/2007 5:32:35 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

Ottawa, ON (AHN) - A medical journal has reported a case of a one-week-old infant who died from complications after being circumcised in an unidentified hospital in Ontario, Canada.

In its April 2007 edition, Paediatrics and Child Health reported a case in which an infant, whose parents did not want him identified, was brought back to his family doctor by his parents 5 hours after he had been circumcised. At that time, his parents said he was "very irritable and had blue discoloration below the umbilicus when he cried." The baby's physicians sent the child home.

The baby's parents took him to another hospital 14 hours after his circumcision because he was still irritable and his penis was swollen. Dr. Jim Cairns, who is the deputy chief coroner in Ontario, said that at that time, doctors found the baby's bladder was "seven or eight times its normal size."

The baby boy subsequently died after going into septic shock, which Dr. Cairns said is "an overwhelming infection, leading to multi-organ failure."

Dr. Cairns, who became involved because the provincial coroner's office must review all deaths of all children younger than 5 in the province of Ontario, said that death is a rare complication of circumcision.


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; canadahospital; circumcision; immunity; infant; msra; resistance; socializedmedicine; superbugs
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To: ikka
Didn't stop ME! Ha!

I'm sure it didn't stop you but you likely need libricant. I used to think people that needed a accessory were insane until I realized why.

61 posted on 06/14/2007 7:57:10 PM PDT by Teflonic
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To: Chickensoup

There are only 700 or so accidental gun deaths every year, the 1500 you site probably includes undetermined death, police intervention and justifible homicide. Also roughly one person under the age of 19 dies every 3 days from an accident with a gun.


62 posted on 06/14/2007 8:04:40 PM PDT by LukeL (Never let the enemy pick the battle site. (Gen. George S. Patton))
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To: metmom
Well, if you read the Bible, the same God who created the foreskin instituted circumcision. According to Scripture, HE was the one who introduced it. Tell Him He made a mistake doing that, why don't you?

So, God made specialized tissue on the most sensitive part of a man's body, simply for the someone else to hack off. What a wacky world.

63 posted on 06/14/2007 8:07:33 PM PDT by Squeako (Senators DeMint, Sessions, and Coburn have temporarily saved The Republic.)
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To: Squeako

Squeako you should make a pinglist, would be fun finding a name for it lol.


64 posted on 06/14/2007 8:09:21 PM PDT by Teflonic
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To: Teflonic
I'm sure it didn't stop you but you likely need libricant.

You are one humorless pr*ck.

65 posted on 06/14/2007 8:11:00 PM PDT by ikka
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To: ikka

I didn’t mean to be humorless, I just had to point out one more thing that circumcised men never realized they lost.


66 posted on 06/14/2007 8:20:52 PM PDT by Teflonic
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To: Squeako

Tell it to God.


67 posted on 06/14/2007 8:50:08 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Teflonic; ikka
I didn’t mean to be humorless, I just had to point out one more thing that circumcised men never realized they lost.

That's exactly right. Generally speaking, men circumcised at birth typcially never know how the intact parts are even supposed to function, let alone their purposes or sensations.

It's sort of like watching a regular TV signal on an HDTV monitor. If you've always had regular TV, and didn't know how HDTV is supposed to look, you might be perfectly satisfied with what you're seeing. You might not even think twice about it and it certainly might not affect your viewing pleasure. "Hey, it looks fine."

But someone who's always been watching 1080p HDTV is going to say, "You don't know what you're missing. It's not supposed to look like that."

There's no reason to routinely disable the resolution of our HDTVs.

68 posted on 06/14/2007 8:58:41 PM PDT by Squeako (Senators DeMint, Sessions, and Coburn have temporarily saved The Republic.)
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To: VOA
...don't ever watch the series "Missed Diagnoses" that occassionally airs on The Discovery Channel...used to watch it, but it always turned out that the guy's wife was sneaking rat poison into his iced tea and I got bored waiting for the medical esperts to come up with the diagnosis when I knew what it was as soon as I heard that he had "strange neurological symptoms and was growing progressivly weaker"......
69 posted on 06/14/2007 9:00:41 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: metmom
Tell it to God.

Well, since it's not necessary for us Christians to do it at all, He must have changed His mind with The New Covenant.

70 posted on 06/14/2007 9:01:47 PM PDT by Squeako (Senators DeMint, Sessions, and Coburn have temporarily saved The Republic.)
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To: Squeako
There's no reason to routinely disable the resolution of our HDTVs. What a great analogy...
71 posted on 06/14/2007 9:13:55 PM PDT by Teflonic
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To: Alouette

Kyle died during the Bris ceremony? I thought he was eaten by wolves....


72 posted on 06/14/2007 9:28:25 PM PDT by Schwaeky (Just say NO to Union Food (Kroger, etc) and say yes to Home Delivery..)
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To: Triggerhippie

“Michael Moore said so...”

...thought that was Cuba...or, Haiti...one or the other...


73 posted on 06/14/2007 9:37:46 PM PDT by RavenATB
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To: metmom

“Well, if you read the Bible, the same God who created the foreskin instituted circumcision. According to Scripture, HE was the one who introduced it. Tell Him He made a mistake doing that, why don’t you?”

And if you read alittle closer, you’ll know for WHO and WHY God instituted it to begin with. Has nothing to do with hygiene or disease prevention.


74 posted on 06/14/2007 9:47:27 PM PDT by swmobuffalo (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
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To: Chickensoup; Mrs.Z
"I have never heard of anyone being circumcised when joining the military.

Well, now you have! ;)

See also post #22.

BTW, his comment was always made tongue-in-cheek. He was the third of three brothers who served in the Navy from 1941 (before Pearl Harbor) to 1946.

75 posted on 06/15/2007 4:14:13 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("The military Mission has long since been accomplished" -- Harry Reid, April 23, 2007)
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To: esopman

Must you shout? It’s rude.


76 posted on 06/15/2007 4:23:25 AM PDT by Malacoda (A day without a pi$$ed-off muslim is like a day without sunshine.)
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To: Dick Vomer

Or a turtleneck guy in crewneck world, as my eldest brother says.


77 posted on 06/15/2007 4:24:56 AM PDT by Malacoda (A day without a pi$$ed-off muslim is like a day without sunshine.)
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To: metmom

Absolutely right. Baby recovers well from circumcicion. When it is done as an adult, it is very painful, takes awhile to heal, much swelling, etc.

As to health benefits, many have been set forth above, but you refer to situation where man is pre-diabetic or has even a trace of sugar in urine. This results in yeast infection on member which is very painful and causes open sores.

The people who rally against circumcision for one reason or another are just as nuts as the PETA crowd.


78 posted on 06/15/2007 4:36:42 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Randy Larsen

“clitoridectomy ,

I don’t have a clue what this is! and why is it performed?”

Here you go.If you would like to read it, here’s more information than you could possibly need or want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_circumcision


79 posted on 06/15/2007 4:56:33 AM PDT by Mila
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To: Schwaeky

That was Ike.


80 posted on 06/15/2007 6:46:58 AM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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