STINKER of a BELLY BUTTON

[Lorenz]

My fucking belly button stinks like shit and I don't know what's causing it. I shower every day and sometimes it doesn't happen for weeks but then it comes back. Sometimes it's so bad I can smell it through my top. Nobody else has ever mentioned it but it's making me paranoid.

It smells like rotten flesh but if I stick my finger in there, its all gooey inside.

Any ideaS?

yep off to gp.
I had a little umbilical hernia - a tiny hole.
needed one stitch.

and yes to washing and drying it properly.

I used to get this. I used savlon spray on it which cleared it up.

Very inny belly buttons can't be dried effectively (even with a cotton bud).

This thread is 6 years old!!!

oh man. shame the zombie warning dissapears after a awakening...

Don't put anything strong like anti-bac gel in there - it is like to make it worse and sore. Once you are happy it is clean and dry, a little sudacrem on a cotton bud might help it.

A wee bit canesten on a cottonbud once or twice a week should help sort iti must admit I'm somewhat addicted to shoving my finger in my belly button and having a sniff. If I'm feeling generous I'll offer my finger around but no one seems as interested in its aroma.!

I really want the op to come back and update us on her 6 year old stinky belly button.

How in the world did this thread get reawakened?!? Who was searching for what on Google??!!

Well, it's made me choke laughing! But why the hell has someone bumped this?!

FFS too funny that someone has been searching for people being mean about smelly belly buttons

When I was pg, I was convinced my belly button was going to 'come undone'. Are you sure that hasn't happened to you?

I do wonder sometimes how posters even find such threads to bump.

Does that make me a hater?

I get this sometimes, always have yet I don't sweat under the arms or in any of the normal places!

Where did the zombie warning go? Sorry guys grabs hard hat and heads for exit

Diluted dettol, soak a cotton bud and dry, or lie flat and pour a bit onto it so it can soak and then dry, keep doing it morning and night for 3 days- advice from surgeon after laproscopic surgery when I got an infection in mine. Worked really well.

Has a 13 year old schoolboy revived this thread

ZOMBIE THREAD FOLKS

Try Savlon on a cotton bud too

Ffs, am I invisible?!

THIS IS A THREAD FROM 2011 - 6 YEARS AGO

Just found this after suffering with the same problem although mine is very sore too

OH NOT THIS ONE AGAIN

I absolutely love that this is the zombie thread that won’t die why on earth hasn’t the op told us if her belly button fell off or not though?!

Oh, my BF had this! It was infected so definitely see the GP but also he had this thing where it had never fully healed from birth and, I think, slightly herniated, and needed cauterising. So if it's been this way for ages, or happens again after one course of antibiotics, you might want to ask about that

It was an inny, it couldn't fall off!

I was going to have a fry for breakfast, you have just saved me the calories OP, thank you!

You could try popping a bit of canestan cream in using a cotton bud. Only after washing out and throughly drying out first - again cotton buds (used gently) should be your friend here.

Ha ha - didn't see was a zombie thread! Hope it got better!