Solution to odd smell under foreskin

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So, like a lot of guys out there, I have a foreskin. And for some reason, it tends to smell bad under it, to the point where I have to wash it 2-3 times a day to avoid the smell. Do you guys have any tips or tricks to avoid this?
 

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It's probably smegma. If you wash it to the point you can't smell the nasty smell any more, then dry as much of the foreskin, head and corona as possible before pulling the skin forward, you should be ok. It sounds like you're getting a clamminess from it not being dry. It's kinda like stinky armpits. if they're damp, they tend to stink more.
I got circumcised when I was 20, because I began to have problems with the foreskin not wanting to retract. I don't miss it at all.
 

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Sometimes the more you wash it the more you irritate it and the more stuff is produced. As long as you don't have an infection or anything. Not a doctor but you should check with one if it doesn't clear up.
 
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So, like a lot of guys out there, I have a foreskin. And for some reason, it tends to smell bad under it, to the point where I have to wash it 2-3 times a day to avoid the smell. Do you guys have any tips or tricks to avoid this?

wash it with warm sea-salt water.. this will restore the natural balance use only a little bit of salt

do not dry it as that is not necessary.
 
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I'm not sure this would help, or if it's at all proper what I am doing, but it is posts like these that remind me that at one time I had the same problem. Not looking for any real solution to it, a couple of years ago I started to oil my dick with baby oil after a shower as part of my PE regimen, and just left the oil in the foreskin. And in retrospect, I've not had any smelly issues since then!
 

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just simple soap and water, as said don't 'over wash'.

if you internal balance gets out of whack simply eating yogurt can help.

I also find that a dip in a pool is great (nothing like chlorinated water to clean everything)- I always make sure to 'shush' everything around..and if there is a jet handy, even better ;))
 

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No soap! Removing natural emollients and disturbing the pH balance is an invitation to bacterial overload and decay.


Do you dab after you urinate? Have you tried a probiotic dick dip?
 

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back when i was 12 when i still had my foreskin, i would always have a build up of smegma and had that smell, i'm pretty sure it was due to my horny compulsion, as u do at that age (always wanting to wank and cum, but sometimes not keeping up with the cleaning therefore leaving traces behind in my foreskin). this problem stopped coz i got some control over my urges and kept up with the cleaning.
 

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Was it always like that, or is it something more recent? If you're sexually active you might have a yeast infection. (You'll know cause your dick will smell like dead fish)
 

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Very likely this is a yeast infection. Smegma is one type of smell and yeast is quite different. Let it smell a little and have an MD do a swab with a q-tip and send it for analysis. Treated wrong this can be a never ending cycle. Let it get a little "ripe" and have the MD run a test on it to make certain.
 

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What helped me was after washing and drying it, pulling the foreskin back and spraying with a 3% peroxide solution and letting it dry a bit before letting the forskin cover it again. This kills the bacteria. i only had to do it once or twice. Have not had any smell since. A male nurse told me about this.
 

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Was it always like that, or is it something more recent? If you're sexually active you might have a yeast infection. (You'll know cause your dick will smell like dead fish)

Very likely this is a yeast infection. Smegma is one type of smell and yeast is quite different. Let it smell a little and have an MD do a swab with a q-tip and send it for analysis. Treated wrong this can be a never ending cycle. Let it get a little "ripe" and have the MD run a test on it to make certain.


Yeah listen to Vindicator and FuzzyKen.. stinking odd smell : check with your doctor.

Whatever you do..: do not get rid of your foreskin! and of course this thought has not even crossed your mind, right? :wink:
 

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So, like a lot of guys out there, I have a foreskin. And for some reason, it tends to smell bad under it, to the point where I have to wash it 2-3 times a day to avoid the smell. Do you guys have any tips or tricks to avoid this?

If your foreskin does not retract, you may clean it out by using a rubber bulb ear syringe to squirt luke-warm water into your foreskin to flush it out.

I wonder how you smell what's under the foreskin. It seems to me that if you don't retract it, you would be unable to smell what's underneath.
 

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back when i was 12 when i still had my foreskin, i would always have a build up of smegma and had that smell, i'm pretty sure it was due to my horny compulsion, as u do at that age (always wanting to wank and cum, but sometimes not keeping up with the cleaning therefore leaving traces behind in my foreskin). this problem stopped coz i got some control over my urges and kept up with the cleaning.

So what happened to your foreskin? Do you miss it?
 

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I find this all very interesting due to restoring at this time. I have a question about the care of the glands. Is there any reason that something good for the skin that kills bacteria like coconut oil, to be used under the skin ?