Are there alternative treatments for a tight foreskin?
Yes. These include steroid creams, stretching methods and less-invasive surgery. Most physicians will try these before resorting to circumcision. Dr Ian Banks, president of the Men’s Health Forum says: ‘In the UK we circumcise boys and men more than most other European countries with no real evidence to support the practice. You should lubricate your penis well with a water based jelly and pull the foreskin increasingly further back until you can achieve a full retraction while the penis is flaccid. Do not do this with an erect penis as it may prove difficult to bring the foreskin back to its rightful place. Real eye watering stuff. Once you can achieve this, and it may be painful, try doing it with the penis in various stages of increasing erection. Always return the foreskin immediately. If you leave it retracted while very tight it can cause the blood to remain inside the penis making it get even bigger (the basis of ‘cock rings’ and the vacuum device for impotence).
