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Since this afternoon, there has been a brown yellow discharge from my belly button and it smells bad. what should i do to stop this?

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Dr. Richard Bensinger answered

Take a bath: This is a closed space. Take a bath and clean it out and the discharge should disappear.

Answered 1/19/2016

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