Dr. Rasya Dixit | Appointment booking number: 099018 90588
Consultant Dermatologist & Cosmetologist | Dr. Dixit Cosmetic Dermatology Clinic, Bengaluru
The belly button is basically the umbilicus, we call it. It is a reservoir or dead cells. We wash our body on a regular basis with soap and water, but in the belly button there is no sloughing of the skin, the dead skin is accumulating in the nooks and cervices. So there is a grow of the anaerobic bacteria over here. That is why when it is not cleaned very regularly, the umbilicus tend s to smell. So some of us have clean umbilicus which doesn’t have nooks and crevices. So you might not have the same curvatures in your umbilicus like another person has. So remember whenever you are having a bath, you have to make sure that you clean it very gently with a towel and apply some soap and water and remember to rinse out the umbilicus and then keep it dry. You can also use a cotton bud and use an antibiotic cream like mupirocin cream and apply it to prevent the formation of bacterial residue there especially if you are prone for getting repeated smelling discharge form the umbilical area. If you feel that it keeps on coming ad if there is a secretion, there might be some sinus formation or there might be some problem here, where the skin has become irritated and you need to see either a dermatologist or a surgeon to make sure that you don’t need an oral antibiotic to tackle this problem.
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