Complications rare with baby circumcisions, rise with age

·Reuters via FOXNews ^ | May 13, 2014

[US Navy Vet]

There are few reported complications after boys are circumcised during their first year of life, but the risk rises considerably if the procedure is performed later in childhood, according to a new analysis published on Monday.

Previous research found wide variations in the rates of complications following male circumcisions. Those studies were often small and based on patients from a single hospital.

For the new study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers used data from U.S. insurance claims for babies younger than one year old, children between ages one year and nine years and older children 10 years and older. The findings do not include children who underwent ritual circumcisions in a non-medical setting.

[US Navy Vet]

And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. Genesis 17:12(KJV)

Leave this to the PROFESSIONALS The Rabbis! Think there MAY be SOMETHING SPECIAL about the 8th day(Like G*D knew what HE was doing?!)!

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[Izzy Dunne]

So, God supports buying children from strangers?

[Tijeras_Slim]

I call BS, mine was done as a newborn and I couldn’t walk for a year.

[cripplecreek]

I’m guessing the main complication is convincing an adult male to get it done.

[GeronL]

I see what you did there...

[FlingWingFlyer]

ROTFL! Love it!

[skeeter]

There are few reported complications after boys are circumcised during their first year of life, but the risk rises considerably if the procedure is performed later in childhood

Sure, the risk he might object.

personally I'm glad I didn't know what was going on.

[US Navy Vet]

SMARTA$$!

[CondorFlight]

Blood platelets rise to a maximum level after birth on the 8th day; and then start to decrease. Hence, if you wanted to circumcise someone, you would choose the 8th day.

[areukiddingme1]

I knew a guy, in the Navy in fact, that was engaged and his soon to be wife wouldn’t marry him until he had “the deed” done.

He was 34...he said if he didn’t love her so much, knowing what he knew after the fact...he would have told her take it, or leave it.

Said it was “the” single most painful thing he had ever done and would not have done it if he knew just how damn painful it was going to be.

[Resolute Conservative]

Elaine has seen one that wasn’t and was not impressed...

[RedStateRocker]

And the consequences can be even worse if you’ve pissed off the wrong group of Jews and you’re a Shechemite :-)

[onedoug]

‘Hope the Corpsmen didn’t do it at sea. Oy vey!

[bikerman]

I would have told her to nibble it off.

[US Navy Vet]

Yep that is where THIS comes in:
Genesis 12:3(KJV)
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed

[Freeping Since 2001]

An honest discussion of the subject requires acknowledging that it has a real effect on sexual options for the typical married couple.

[ansel12]

I had a 30 year old friend have it done, we had a grand time mocking his suffering for the following week or two.

[IronJack]

In some circumcisions, the doctors throw away the wrong part.

[PA Engineer]

An honest discussion of the subject requires acknowledging that it has a real effect on sexual options for the typical married couple.

Really. Why don't you tell us about it. Interesting handle for someone that just joined. How about introducing yourself?