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Today Gage had his appt and everything was gravy aside from that his nuts have vanished. The doc thought she could sort of feel one up above his junk, but the other.... :mystery:
f a baby's testicle has not descended on its own within the first 6 months of life, the boy should undergo evaluation by a pediatric specialist and treatment if the condition is confirmed. This usually involves surgically repositioning the testicle into the scrotum.
Treatment is necessary for several reasons:
* The higher temperature of the body may inhibit the normal development of the testicle, which could impair normal production of sperm in the undescended testicle in the future, which could lead to infertility.
* The undescended testicle is at a greater risk to form a tumor than the normally descended testicle.
* The undescended testicle may be more vulnerable to injury or testicular torsion.
* An asymmetrical or empty scrotum may cause a child worry and embarrassment.
* Sometimes boys with undescended testicles develop inguinal hernias.
If surgery is done, it's likely that doctors will perform an orchiopexy, in which a small cut is made in the groin and the testicle is brought down into the scrotum where it is fixed (or pexed) in place. Doctors typically do this on an outpatient basis, and most boys recover fully within a week.
Its weird though because his nuts have never been missing before. They are just all the sudden missing. And since one of them isnt even palpable it would mean digging around to find the damn thing. Also.....this is something normally done on babies. Not on 4 year olds who can protest. And dig at stuff. He has an appt in late sept with a pediatric urology specialist to try and find the missing nad and figure out what were going to do.
Btw...after telling a kid for 4 years that NO ONE is supposed to touch your junk, its impossible to get him to let the doc feel his junk.
f a baby's testicle has not descended on its own within the first 6 months of life, the boy should undergo evaluation by a pediatric specialist and treatment if the condition is confirmed. This usually involves surgically repositioning the testicle into the scrotum.
Treatment is necessary for several reasons:
* The higher temperature of the body may inhibit the normal development of the testicle, which could impair normal production of sperm in the undescended testicle in the future, which could lead to infertility.
* The undescended testicle is at a greater risk to form a tumor than the normally descended testicle.
* The undescended testicle may be more vulnerable to injury or testicular torsion.
* An asymmetrical or empty scrotum may cause a child worry and embarrassment.
* Sometimes boys with undescended testicles develop inguinal hernias.
If surgery is done, it's likely that doctors will perform an orchiopexy, in which a small cut is made in the groin and the testicle is brought down into the scrotum where it is fixed (or pexed) in place. Doctors typically do this on an outpatient basis, and most boys recover fully within a week.
Its weird though because his nuts have never been missing before. They are just all the sudden missing. And since one of them isnt even palpable it would mean digging around to find the damn thing. Also.....this is something normally done on babies. Not on 4 year olds who can protest. And dig at stuff. He has an appt in late sept with a pediatric urology specialist to try and find the missing nad and figure out what were going to do.
Btw...after telling a kid for 4 years that NO ONE is supposed to touch your junk, its impossible to get him to let the doc feel his junk.