smelly discharge from belly button

[rooney08]

please help me for years off and on ive had this really smelly discharge from my belly button i went to the doc a few years back he didnt seem worried but now its back i dont wanna go back to my doctor as have been back and forth for weight probs and periods etc and am getting fed up with it all has anyone here experienced this problem or know what it could be i have my belly button peirced but had this problem before that and its horrible pllllleeeeeeeeaaaaaasssssseeeee help me!!!

[nathansmum559]

I get this and wondered for years what it was and then I watched Dr Oz once and he said it's caused from when your umbilical cord was cut as a baby that there was some aspect of your belly button that didn't close off completely so that now and then it oozes.  He said there is nothing to worry about but there is nothing that you can do except to use saline and cotton pads and wipe it clean.  It usually goes away after a couple of days.

[ruru13]

I have the same problem but i notice its worse when i eat wheat products. i was wheat intolerant a few years ago and then it got better but now no pain when i eat wheat but i get smelly discharge from the belly button

[Glamma2014]

I have the same problem. I think it's been about 8 years post tummy tuck and I'm now suffering with this belly button thing. I wonder if it is a stitch

[Angel1981tx]

It comes and goes since my tummy tuck in 2008... Would that still be a post belly button surgery issue or maybe something more like yeast or bacteria causing the nasty stinky discharge ?

[Angel1981tx]

I'm post tummy tuck by 8 years and I have the exact same problem! I call it catfish belly button! I thought I was alone with this issue but after seeing I'm not the only one I think I'm going to make an appointment with my PCP....

[fireldybug11]

I also had a tummy tuck 1 1/2 yrs ago, about 6 months ago I started to have this stench on my pants and blouses where my navel meets. I used a floss stick and stuck it in my BB and all this "stuff" came out and boy did it stink. It looked like my body lotion I used.  It only does it when I wear pants or shorts that put pressure on my belly button.  It does stink like dirty feet. Its disgusting. :( I am going to talk to my OBGYN next week about it.

[medwards121203]

i had my tubs tide the same way you did. what i have found out that is grown candida, high yeast. what i have tried is probio 5 from plexus slim and it works great. what i did before is soak a q-tip in alcohol that works .

[MustangSally1960]

Your case sounds just like mine, and from my experience is that it is my (GERD) gastroesophageal reflux disease. Seams that every time I don't take any medication for a couple of days it flairs up. I've had it so bad, it would start to come out of all my orifices. I would then get back on the acid blockers and ta-da, it's gone. I have gone to numerous doctors and none of them can tell my what is. Mine own doctors for 30 years said that he had never heard of such a thing. Never the less, I'm already in my fifty's and that seams to be the only thing that causes it for me. And just in case you don't believe that GERD could cause such a thing, check out this web site. Good luck ladies, Mustang Sally :)

http://news.yahoo.com/boys-ear-problems-had-rare-cause-gut-disease-203731727.html

[Princessfee67]

I too have a sore red BB and I clean it with apple vinegar - I know it sounds weird but it works. Apple vinegar is a healer for so many things! Hope this helps.

[kate061965]

I've had  a smelly belly button off and on now for years ,as it is very deep and yes it does smell horrible  . i will tell u something funny though well i thinks funny  ..... i way laying beside my husband in bed and i hadnt had the smelly belly for a while ......i got a wif of a bad smell ,i started smelling the sheets as we sleep naked , i then blamed my husband for not wiping him bottom properly  as thats what it smelt like .... after a argument  i realised it was me  my belly was the culprit , i never did tell him that how embarrassing , but now i know when i get that wif , its me  hope u see the funny side  too..

[red1727]

I too have a weight problem, so my belly button doesn't get much air, so it gets sore and red. My doctor gave me a cream called Bactroban. It is a fungus that grows because air does not get in there, and sweat sits in there. Whenever getting out of the shower, make a point to try out your belly button and put a little baby power in there to help with the moisture. Hope this helps!

[1_tammy]

I've had the same problem since I was a child, I'm now 53 years old. I can't remember if I read this or saw it somewhere on tv, but they said some people's umbilical cords never heal properly. However when I was  child I was told to clean it daily alcohol and a qtip.

[gracegraham]

Just to add, there have been countless times that I relied on this kit that otherwise I would surely have needed to be on steroids, and that wouldn't have gotten rid of the black thick clotted blood under the surface.  Remove that stuff the inflammation stops.  This method is also amazing for knee and other joint problems.  My acupuncturist does not 'believe in arthritis'.  It is the junk that collects, we get symptoms, take pills, the junk is still there and one day there is a mass of dead blood interfering in circulation, we move less, calcium buildup etc etc etc).  Those itchy elbows are also sources of that dead blood, I have seen it, personal proof, when I get itchy spots (such as around the ankles, there is always junk.  This is not hocus pocus, yes we have candida, yeast, sugar, and all the other sins, but these mini painless operations make you instantly feel and be better, instantly reverse the sins that have made you feel bad, and gives you the energy to take better care of yourself.

[gracegraham]

From personal experience I believe that all the suggestions above do not come close to the answer.  It is not because the belly buttons are sweating because they are innies', or that we are fat and no air is getting to them, or that we don't clean them.  My solution came by mistake.  I was having treatments from my acupuncturist that most do not do, it was with suction, cupping using the bloodletting aspect. I thought that knowledge of this treatment needed to be more publicly known but did know how to get it out there, that is until I found the term hijama.  I experimented with googling hijama and acupuncture and appropriate worldwide locations so that friends of mine could find a practitioner, the reason I added acupuncture is so that one could have the option to have treatments with acupuncture.  Hijama is a long standing well known Muslim version, it is more strict (only on certain days of the month, and they suggest you rest after a treatment) and intense (they use razor blade cuts rather than needle punctures).

In my case my acupuncturist had given me a cupping kit, it took a few years before I realized I could do the bloodletting on myself in emergencies.

I recommend that even if you do get a cupping kit, that you also find a practitioner who does the whole body from time to time, as we can only deal with emergencies by ourselves, and can not do the whole body front and back to do a complete treatment.

I started using the kit on myself when I got a wasp bite that by the next day the hotness, redness and itching was starting to pass the elbow mark and I thought I'd have to go to the hospital.  I then got the kit out and put the cup on the bite site (used the suction gun to make the cup stick to the skin, left it there for a bit, used the needle hammer on the area, then put the cup back), and before I knew it the cup was filling up with the same material that came out when my acupuncturist did it on me.  This taught me that it is not necessarily so that we are allergic to bee stings, but that insects bite us where we are 'sick'.

I spent the summer using mosquito bites to find the 'sick' spots, and realized that mosquitoes are my guide in those times when I can not always find the time to drive the two hours for my acupuncture treatment.

Later that year I started to get the hot red itchy smelly belly button symptoms.  I got out the kit, and for the next 5 months, about three times a week I had to do the treatments, for a couple hours each day.  I was wondering if I would have to do them indefinitely and then I made an interesting discovery.

First of all, the area around the belly button (about an inch extending around the belly button is the 'spleen' area for Chinese medicine diagnostics.  I had a spot on my forearm that itched like crazy from time to time (it seemed to be where the forearm rests on the computer, but it is also a prominent point along the spleen meridian), but I could never get a cup to stick on that part of the arm (I thought, that due to the angle I could not reach it properly).  After five months of doing the belly button treatments the arm itch started again, and finally this time I did manage to get the cup to stick, and I removed many cups of different kinds of the material (bubbles, clots of different colours, etc).

After that, the need for continuing with the belly button ceased.

This type of treatment is so necessary for the removal of toxins that can not be gotten rid of with good diet and habits alone.  It is not at all painful, only a relief, especially when something is itchy, you put some alcohol on it, the cup, a few hammers with the needle hammer, put the cup back and the junk starts coming out ... the head feels lighter, the itch goes away, you feel great!  One thing I would add, at some point during the belly button treatments the needle hammer was no longer doing the trick and I finally succumbed to using a lancet ... of course there is a way to do it so that it does not feel like you are sticking a needle into yourself.  I will try to explain, you kind of lightly punch area, using your hand to block the needle going in all the way, so that it barely breaks the skin.  Do not be alarmed about the blue bruising, as you clean out, over time the bruising stops.

I repeat again, even if you buy your own kit and hammer, it is just for emergencies, do find someone to do whole body treatments, at least in the beginning.

I leave it to you to do your own google research (hijama, cupping, bloodletting).  There you will see the sequence of cup, alcohol, cup, wait, remove cup, wipe, do it again ... in some instances one day nothing will come from a spot, and when you go back again, it does.

Also, doing it with an acupuncturist ensures that the energy system is fortified, not only the blood removal.  As my acupuncturist says 'I can put the needles in, but if there is junk underneath, it does not do much".

I tried to keep this brief, hope it helps.

[tml788405]

I just woke up this morning and had a pain in my belly button and when i went to touch it there was yucky fluid coming out and it smells sooooo bad. I dunno what to do, Im not over weight, I do have horrible periods and I have never had a surgery. Im thinking about seeing my dr cause there in a lump and it hurts really bad. I have never experienced this until this morning. So happy I found this site. Thanks all

[2Bottles]

Where can you get tea tree oil ?

[Piker2nd]

i too, like many, have the same type of clear discharge from my belly button. i find that, personally, when i rub too much at it (when tryiing to wipe it away) it simply gets worse. but if you don't at least pat dry the discharge it will dry and leave almost a sort of off white crystal, like what comes from your eyes when you wake up. I would try to use, like many others have said, an anti-baterial cream, such as neosporin, or a type of cream you put on cuts and scrapes. this seems to dry and temporarally drain the fluid if not perminently. DO NOT PICK AT THE SPOT. if you do you will find that there will be scabs inside the belly button and feel almost like wet cornstarch. not all ofthis may be true, but this is what happened to me. hope this info help a bit :) .

[Sarahanne1995]

I have had this same problem for about 3 years. I'm 17 year old, not over weight, when I first started getting it I was a size 8 in clothes I'm now a size 12 and I started getting it after I had my belly button pierced. I've been too embarrassed to go to the doctor about it. I've tried everything but it always comes back, it's horrible and my partner finds it so off putting :-(

[mehwish777]

yhnx alot dear i will def try..ohh u make me contentfull i was very worried..since few dayzzz

[kj919]

I have the same problem.  I found athletes foot cream worked best.  It took the redness and soreness away.  Get one that treats and prevents them.  It helped me so much.  It still comes back every now and then, but it is so much better.

[JCsDscpl]

Ok Ladies! I got it figured out! The other night I was trying to figure out what to do with my belly button cuz it really turned red and was hurting and I'm pretty sure it was a fungus. My belly button has always smelled awful too.. and yes, I am overweight, I am quite certain it smells because it doesnt get much air.. so bacteria can easily grow.. anyways, I GOT THE CURE FOR BOTH! I tried the yogurt the first night, because I know that yogurt DOES help fight fungi... but it didnt seem any better the next day. so i figured i would treat it like i do with any heat rash that i get every once in a while.. I used CORN STARCH. It has been two days and it does not hurt anymore, nor is there any smell, which i didnt expect.. It is still red but i will continue using it until that clears too.. I took a shower, cleaned it out, dried it good, and dabbed a little cornstarch in the whole thing. it has worked like a charm. I hope it works well for all you ladies too!!!

[mel363]

hi, i have had this proplem for many years its never been a bad issue that iv thort to get checked out from a doctor but i wanted to google it to find y this happens i am slitly overweight bt my belly botten does get air and wash regulary, iv never had any problems in the girly area or with my periods and would really love to know y its coursed weather it is overweight or something else...i rescently go the corage to as a friend she said it smells like the smell when u pick or clean ur toe nails, witch is exactly wat myn smels like, can any1 relate to that???? and is it and overweight problem or maby somthing to do with sweat??  i have a bad underarm sweating proplem not smelly sweat just wet sweat...b great if any1 kan answer my questions :)

[Iris76]

Yes I do but I thought it was moths or carpet beetles. But I have intermitant tummy button problem, so this is interesting

[piper47]

Forty six years ago I told my doctor about mine. He inserted a huge q tip and said my navel never closed. Cleaned it out and said not to worry about
it. But I still have it never close.