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What does it mean when you clean your belly button with cotton buds and it's bleeding about and smells? need my kind putting at rest
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Potential serious: Should have no foreign material, bleeding, odor or drainage. There is an isue and needs care and complete diagnosis-hernia, infection, cyst etcs.
Answered 1/23/2021
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