Advice needed: 4 week old with an umbilical granuloma?

[lino253]

Hi everyone.

So I'm pretty sure my son has an umbilical granuloma (pink outie which has a yellow discharge, no redness around or smell).
I saw my midwife earlier to be discharged and she said to leave it alone and it should get better by itself. My worry is that she's been a bit "meh it'll be fine" about other things during my care with her that weren't fine. Nothing major but enough that I'm not convinced. Also I had a wound granuloma once and needed silver nitrate to treat it.

The advice I'm after is Should I wait and see or should i take him to see my GP for a 2nd opinion?

Thanks in advance xx

Over-enthusiastic treatment if ds2's granuloma put him in the burns unit of our local children's hospital so my advice would be to leave it for a bit! And if you do go for treatment, make sure they are sparing with the silver nitrate and keep a close eye on it in the hours following treatment.

(What happened to us was apparently rare to the point of being unheard of, but it was incredibly stressful).

Dd1 had raw and wet looking belly button (revealed when she stretched). Had silver nitrate at 6 weeks by gp and needed a 2nd go but all fine (no pain for her, think she even slept through 2nd time)

salt treatment

Works a treat

Dd had this from a few days old - they said to leave it but at 6 weeks it wasn't better so a gp put silver nitrate on it. Worked a treat

Dd had and we left until 8 weeks and it was gone. I hope the same is true of yours.

Thank you for responding so quick. My health visitor is coming out Monday morning so I'll get her advice too. She might be able to give more info on the salt treatment. If she's not sure then I'll see the gp next week.
Thanks again x