Health Update: Saved by the skin of their teeth

Tuesday 01 February 1994 00:02 GMT

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A FORESKIN caught in the teeth of a trouser zip is a common problem among boys but is easily treated and does not require circumcision, say doctors from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. A report in Injury says that the doctors treated 30 boys who came to casualty with this complaint over a seven-year period; in most cases the offending zip was unjammed or cut off under local anaesthetic.

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