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What Could Leaking Belly Button Mean?
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A year or so back i discovered my belly button was leaking and white/yellow colour fluid it’s the thickness and colour of puss and it really smells and it also goes crusty. I thought it was wear i wasn’t drying it properly but it keeps coming back every month and also now it’s all red inside like it’s been scratch and i haven’t scratched it at all I’ve been keeping it clean 3 times a way with clean cotton wool and water but it won’t go away. What is it? And what can I do?
A year or so back i discovered my belly button was leaking and white/yellow colour fluid it’s the thickness and colour of puss and it really smells and it also goes crusty. I thought it was wear i wasn’t drying it properly but it keeps coming back every month and also now it’s all red inside like it’s been scratch and i haven’t scratched it at all I’ve been keeping it clean 3 times a way with clean cotton wool and water but it won’t go away. What is it? And what can I do?
Fri, 2 Jan 2015
Hi.
Thanks for your query and an elucidate history.
Your history is classical of a condition called an umbilical granuloma.
If the cleaning is not helping and there is recurrence of the pus discharge with redness you have mentioned, it will need a surgery to get rid of the granuloma by excising it and have daily dressings with liquid povidone iodine.
Consult a General Surgeon to examine the problem and get a date for surgery.
In rare cases this can be a patent Vitilo-intestinal duct or a patent Urachus. this is seen only on exploration and is treated accordingly by excision of the tract .
Thanks for your query and an elucidate history.
Your history is classical of a condition called an umbilical granuloma.
If the cleaning is not helping and there is recurrence of the pus discharge with redness you have mentioned, it will need a surgery to get rid of the granuloma by excising it and have daily dressings with liquid povidone iodine.
Consult a General Surgeon to examine the problem and get a date for surgery.
In rare cases this can be a patent Vitilo-intestinal duct or a patent Urachus. this is seen only on exploration and is treated accordingly by excision of the tract .
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