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Sam2: truthsharer said above that there is a health benefit to metitza with a tube. So I wish to know what it is.
DaasYochid: There are many in the anti-MBP crowd (and I’m not in any way referring to you or people who use a tube in general but rather the anti crowd) that make the argument that a) MBP was only instituted for the health benefit b) now there is a greater health benefit to do bris milah without MBP and c) therefore we halachicly can and should replace MBP with a new method that promotes greater health and safety.
So my question to those folks is that, using their line of reasoning, they should be promoting discontinuing any metzitza even with a tube and rather be using modern medicine’s approach to keep the baby healthy immediately after the bris, than using any form of metzitza. Modern medicine does not require any metzitza (and no doctor [instead of a mohel] performing a neonatal circumcision will use metzitza to remove the blood) as they have “safer” methods.