Should hemophiliac patients be circumcised?

Social and cultural integration of hemophilic bogs into society is one of t he most important cornerstones of modern hemophilia therapy. Circumcision, a traditional procedure, is an important ritual for Muslims and Jews and an important social problem for the hemophiliac patient and his family. The a im of this study was to evaluate the psychosocial dimension of circumcision and the opinions of parents and children. A total of 105 hemophiliac patie nts and parents were interviewed and surveyed. Of these, 94 % of the parent s of uncircumcised patients wanted circumcision for their children. Most pa rents saw circumcision as a mandatory procedure Hemophilic boys (60 %) and their parents (82 %) have an inferiority complex because the boys are unabl e to be circumcised. Bleeding risk is the primary reason of anxiety (70 %). The parents of all the circumcised patients were happy after circumcision. In conclusion, circumcision is an important social problem of hemophilic p atients that needs to be solved.