Question
What are the steps for children’s health care? Why would a 6-year-old child experience penile erection during a nap in the evening but not during the day?
Answer
Children’s health care should include about 10 hours of deep sleep, a bowel movement frequency of every two days, and a weight of about 40 pounds. The phenomenon of a 6-year-old child experiencing penile erection during a nap in the evening is a normal physiological occurrence and there is no need to worry excessively. The structure of the penis consists of two pairs of corpora cavernosa and one urethral cavernosa, which are externally enveloped by fascia and skin. During an erection, the cavernosal arteries are stimulated to dilate, causing blood to flow into the cavernosa, leading to penile erection. Erections are categorized into physiological and reflexogenic erections, both of which are the result of neural reflexes causing penile vascular dilation.