Foreign object in belly button Posted: 03-18-08 05:01am
Recently iv noticed that it really smells
and iv been cleaning it out with cotton
buds and a yellow-ish substance comes out
(similar to ear wax but it smells really
bad) So yesterday i was just fiddling
about with my belly button and i could see
there was something actually inside. So i
sterlised some tweezers and tried to pull
the thing out but i couldnt. So i started
to proud around my belly button in a sort
of massage type of way, and right before
my eyes this hard substance thing (about
the size of a 10p piece/a quarter) popped
out of my belly button! I was in
disbelief...it didnt hurt as it came out,
it literally just slid out as if it was
the most normal thing in the world. It was
really hard, like it couldnt be squashed
between my fingers. It wasn't gooey or
wet, it was dry and hard. It smelt very
bad. I ended up breaking it up with my
tweezers and it was brown and 'fibrous'
inside. I flushed it down the toilet.
It is very hard to say what that “dry,
hard, brown, bad smelling” thing that
came out of your belly button was without
seeing it. It could be a conglomerate of
old blood, dirt and dry pus that was
created as a result of skin infection
inside the belly button. You can perform
some disinfection of the belly button with
a local antiseptic.
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