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How to know if my belly button is infected after belly piercing?

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Dr. Glenn Messina answered

Specializes in Aesthetic Medicine

Any combo below: red hot painful oozing fluids or pus very tender expanding zone of redness if present see a physician

Answered 6/30/2014

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