I said chronic balanitis, not balanitis. Tonsillitis is treatable and avoidable but if you’re prone to getting it often (chronic) you get recommended to have your tonsils removed.
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So educate the parents and then they’ll opt out. Or restructure the American healthcare system, which is a different debate. Either way, the doctors aren’t to blame for the parent’s informed decisions.
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You say "educate the parents" then say "parent's informed decisions" if the parents need educating, that means they are not making informed decisions, they are making uninformed decisions, and the information they get then tends to come from the doctors.
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You can’t do anything more than educate the parents, because the surgery is optional. The doctors tell the parents the pros and cons pretty quickly and then parents decide. And trust me, people are happy to doubt medical professionals. Look at the anti-vax movement.
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The doctors DON'T give the parents the pros and cons, not all of them at least. They don't also explain that those pros are not conclusive, that as much, sometimes more, research shows no real benefit, and many of the benefits are minute. like 1/322k for cancer reduction.
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That’s why I never mentioned cancer, but there is a majority consensus that it reduces the rate of urinary tract infections. Keep it to the argument. There are papers here posted by people that agree with you that back me up on this with numbers like 1.73 to 4x reduction.
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Girls get urinary tract infections 5 to 10 times more often than boys do, we give them antibiotics, not surgery, we can easily do the same for boys. Also in Europe the UTI rate is similar to the circumcised rate in the USA, the USA infection rate in intact boys is due to poor >>
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Where does that number come from? Circumcision doesn’t help with female urinary tract infections. They’re protected by acid. Read the other replies I’ve given and if you have a genuinely new point to add I’ll gladly give you a listen.
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I can cite many many sources. Am Fam Physician. 1998 After the first few months of life, UTIs occur far more frequently in girls than in boys, presumably because of the shorter length of the female urethra. Cleveland Clinic (image)pic.twitter.com/P0uyuZRLNW
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