The inflammation may be caused by infection and possibly associated with poor personal hygiene. It may occasionally develop after direct trauma to the area, which results in swelling . Uncircumcised males and those males who may not have been appropriately or completely circumcised are at risk. Paraphimosis usually occurs at both ends of life, childhood and the elderly. The strictured foreskin is retracted behind the glans penis and left there for some period of time.
Blood flow out of the penis is blocked and the glans becomes swollen.
Increased size of the glans then inhibits returning the foreskin to its extended position. Paraphimosis Please read this Important notice .