Doctors described his demeanor as "anxious."

https://nypost.com/2022/01/28/boy-9-acc ... nd-pestle/

I would think one would really need to make an effort to accidentally use a mortar and pestel to amputate their penis. I think a rusty spoon would be easier to use to accomplish this.

I find the somewhat campy tone of this article quite unprofessional.

His "mangled manhood," or the "bludgeoned boy".

Apparently the writer found this all quite amusing.

I can sort of see how he did it, given the picture of the boy holding the mortar between his legs - sit a bit to far forward and things might be able to hang over the edge... Then come down w/ the pestle a bit to close (kids are clumsy...) and OUCH!!!!

I will say I don't think we should add this technique to the list of "not quite OK" DIY methods

Given the general nature of the NY Post as only slightly better than a supermarket tabloid, I'm not surprised by the tone of the article, and in some ways it does fall in the class of things that are amusing as long as they happen to someone else...

WheelyCurious

Paolo wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 4:40 pm I find the somewhat campy tone of this article quite unprofessional.

His "mangled manhood," or the "bludgeoned boy".

Apparently the writer found this all quite amusing.

It is the New York Post. It's basically Fox News meets E! meets The Daily Mail on crack.

Tricky to see how he got the infection. Every time you take a leak you are passing sterile fluids across the wound, anyone who has a PA will tell you its one of the safest piercings to get.

Actually it is NOT necessarily sterile... There are lots of bugs that can live in the bladder quite happily, some relatively harmless, and some seriously nasty.

One of the things that comes with an SCI is that you will almost ALWAYS test positive for a UTI, because you will be colonized constantly from catheterizing. This is such a given, that the SOC for an SCI advises against testing for UTI's unless the person shows other symptoms (fever, flank pain, really stinky and cloudy urine, etc) The assumption is that if always colonized the effort should be on just keeping the bacteria levels low enough that they don't actually cause UTI symptoms.... I'd imagine the kid was probably using an 'indwelling' cath while healing, and those are noted pathways for bugs to get into the bladder. (UTI's are one of the many 'secondary complications' of an SCI and are actually what does in a lot of us.)

However the article didn't say how he got infected, and I'd be more inclined that it came from the outside stitches from where his bits were sewn back together, in which case it wouldn't matter what was in his urine....

WheelyCurious

Mama warned him about Beating Off. Kid was probably over endowed, anyway.

WheelyCurious wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:27 pm Actually it is NOT necessarily sterile... There are lots of bugs that can live in the bladder quite happily, some relatively harmless, and some seriously nasty.

One of the things that comes with an SCI is that you will almost ALWAYS test positive for a UTI, because you will be colonized constantly from catheterizing. This is such a given, that the SOC for an SCI advises against testing for UTI's unless the person shows other symptoms (fever, flank pain, really stinky and cloudy urine, etc) The assumption is that if always colonized the effort should be on just keeping the bacteria levels low enough that they don't actually cause UTI symptoms.... I'd imagine the kid was probably using an 'indwelling' cath while healing, and those are noted pathways for bugs to get into the bladder. (UTI's are one of the many 'secondary complications' of an SCI and are actually what does in a lot of us.)

However the article didn't say how he got infected, and I'd be more inclined that it came from the outside stitches from where his bits were sewn back together, in which case it wouldn't matter what was in his urine....

WheelyCurious

The entire body is a sterile environment (internally) EXCEPT the gastrointestinal tract. The bladder is a sterile environment, I can assure you. I had to use sterile technique to insert urinary catheters when I was a nurse.

UTI's are that - infections. Infections in the sterile bladder environment which need treatment.

I can image it would be quite easy to get infected if the story is in fact true. I'm not convinced of that last part.

You are likely correct for normal males LT, possibly less so for females but probably close. The length of the male urinary tract gives guys some protection against UTI's simply because the bacteria have further to travel... Females have the double issue of a shorter urinary tract, and a genital environment that is conducive to bacteria growth... Male or female, the meatus and first couple centimeters of the tract are expected to have some bacterial growth which does get flushed out every time one pees.

However once you start catheterizing, the situation changes drastically. While sterile technique is used when inserting a Foley cath, sterile only gets rid of most of the bacteria, not all, so some gets pushed in to the bladder with the cath, and more will migrate along it while it is in place. Intermittent cathing like I do is NOT done w/ sterile technique, although there is a lot of effort to make it 'clean'. So anyone doing IC is going to be pushing a certain amount of bacteria into the bladder along with the catheter. So the effort for those that have to do catheterizing is not on totally preventing bacteria in the bladder, but on keeping the colonization down to a level that doesn't produce 'clinical' symptoms... They mostly do this by encouraging us to drink enough fluids to make it necessary to cath every 4-6 hours which flushes enough of the bacteria out of the bladder each time to keep them from being able to multiply enough to reach dangerous levels. We also are encouraged to cut down on sugars and other foods that make urine more able to support bacteria, and sometimes to take supplements that are claimed to either make the urine less hospitable or otherwise discourage the bugs...

WheelyCurious