Anyone else's belly button smell like cheese?

[PhuqIt]

What causes it? I shower daily. Don't understand it, had the same problem for years.

Mine stinks. Really stinks.......I have been known to waft it under my dps nose to wake him from drunken sleeping.

boak

Soap?

do you wash it properly and dry it afterwards?

it's the sweat and fluff trap of doom otherwise.

No. I shower every day sometimes more than once.

Do you actually wash your body properly under the shower?

Mine sometimes stinks and ha a discharge inside, but after a few days it goes, I wash with pain water and make sure I dry it, it helps.

Bastard I did laugh at your post.

Try talc.

Cotton wool and surgical spirit is the only way I clean it thoroughly. Deep belly button means a few issues over the years.

I give mine a good scrub daily.

Mine's really deep. When I was pregnant I could turn it inside out.

Do you dry it properly?

Can't say mine smells...

I use to get this, it's yeast (as in thrush). Treat with Canestan and then make sure it is dry in future, I use a cotton bud.

Not washing it properly causes it.🤢

Get stuck in with soap and a flannel.

I lost mine after surgery so no longer have a belly button, but it used to be quite deep and did smell bad. I used to dry it with my hairdryer.

Mines very deep I use canesten and a cotton bud if it gets a bit smelly

Mine stinks and has done for about 18 years. I can only attribute it to a belly button piercing i had in 1998. It reeks. Piercing long gone but stench remains (daily showerer here)

Mine stinks like death. I frequently use a cotton bud & shower gel to clean mine, as it's hot some nasty scarring from surgery.

Have you guys googled 'navel stones'?

Basically years of filth forming a hard ball.

Do you have a deep belly button?

I read online that a lot of people can have belly button cysts but feel no pain from it but it stinks.

Yuck, I had no idea this was a thing. How deep is deep? Mine goes in about 1cm. Pleased to report it's odour free though.

I wonder how many mumsnetters have now stuck their finger in their belly button and sniffed their finger.

When you've showered, dry it properly otherwise it will wiff 😷

Why the fuck have I just googled naval stones {boak}

I don't make a particular effort when I was and I don't towel dry and have no problem so I doubt it's that. Sounds more like a fungal infection or something.

Had this once - the chemist recommended antibiotic ear drops - it worked! But yuk! Hope I don't get it again.

I think it depends how deep it is. My dh is shallow so exposed to air circulating. Mine is a deep dark dank hole that requires maintenance otherwise god knows what festers in there. Glad I came across this thread...I thought it was just me