Pl take him to ER: Not sure whether he had any hernias at belly button. With morbid obesity, sudden appearance of bleeding from navel is concerning. Sometimes things like umbilical granulations , like a vascular growth -harmless can happen inside the navel, especially in people who have some infections inside it from improper cleaning of it /similarly simple infections like boils( staph, strep. Bact. Infections can occ.
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