A member asked:

Permanent sutures from umbilcal hernia came out of my body on their own 2 years after surgery is this normal?

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Dr. Amy Friedman answered

Specializes in Transplant Surgery

Yes: Permanent suture material becomes an irritant to some people's bodies. The suture is essentially "rejected" by the body over time. Typically, the sutures serve as a small source of chronic infection, with a small, continuous amount of whitish drainage until they are ejected from the same skin site where the pus drains. Once the material is ejected the site will finally heal over.

Answered 3/26/2013

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