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Risen skin above my belly button piercing ?
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Painful, tender?: Is it painful, is it tender to touch? If it is, it maybe infected, with white blood cells having come and died, now forming pus, only treatment is to drain and use appropriate antibiotics
Answered 12/3/2018
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