When bacteria invade and thrive in your navel, it leads to pus-like greenish, brown or yellowish smelly discharge from your navel. This can be worsened with sweat and debris being deposited on your navel especially if you have an ‘innie’ kind of a navel and/or you do not clean it well. Bacteria– Smelly Brown, Green or yellow discharge from the belly button img source: rd.comīacteria, just like fungi love moist, dark, and warm places. Furthermore, ensure you keep good navel hygiene and thoroughly dry it after taking a shower, avoid tight-fitting clothes, reduce the use of antibiotics, drink live yogurt and reduce alcohol and sugar consumption. How to treat or cure yeast infectionsĪntifungal medications especially cream and powders are often used in case one has a yeast infection on the navel. Redness, bleeding (belly button bleeding and discharge) due to scratching does happen and this can give room for a bacterial infection to set in.īesides perfect navel environment, use of steroids, some cancer medications, HIV AIDS infection, obesity, antibiotic use, birth control pills, tight fighting clothing and pregnancy are known to encourage yeast infections not just on the navel but also on other parts of the body. Other common symptoms include itchiness, painful belly button, irritation, and tenderness. pus-filled blisters, with yellow, white, or dark discharges. When yeast (especially Candida Albicans) overgrowth occurs on your navel, it causes a swollen navel with some discharge i.e. This is worsened by the fact that the “belly button can be a dark moist, warm place, the ideal breeding ground for fungi” especially Candida Albicans. One of the most common causes of discharge from navel is fungal infections. Yeast infection in belly button – Pus-like discharge img source:
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