I know this looks very nasty, but I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions.!


Question: I know this looks very nasty, but I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions!.!?
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A couple of days ago I had a scab in my belly button!. I picked it!. Then a day or so later my belly button was swollen, had 3 or 4 scabes, and had red bumbs everywhere!. It itches!. It has spread from inside my belly button to now around it as well!. Sorry for the nasty description and pic but I am just worried and will not be able to go ot the doc until June when my insurance kicks in!. Do you have any suggestions!? I have been cleaning it with peroxide!. Thank you very much!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


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First of all a little background info is always helpful!. Did you recently have your navel pierced!? Have you been camping or doing yard work lately!? Is there anything you were doing the day before or the day of getting this that may be helpful!? Like you went on a walk through the woods the day before and now you have a sore!? Did you get bite my a bug!? My basic guess without any info is it looks like poison Ivy!. The bumbs and the itching goes right along with this!.!. Peroxide is no good for this because things like peroxide or rubbing alcohol form a scab on the outside of the wound!. This causes all the white blood cells (clear liquid) to get trapped beneath the surface and they can not drain!. So it creates a big sore bump that can't drain!. Then all the white blood cells or clear liquid inside turns into puss which makes it hurt even more!. Wounds need to be able to drain!. Your body sends these white blood cells to help heal the cut or sore but when they get trapped it hurts like he**!. So no more peroxide!. And no more itching and picking of the scabs!. If it is poison ivy or oak the more you itch and pick it the more it will spread!. First to the area then to other areas!. Example: You itch it it continues to spread on your tummy, so you itch it and pick at it more and you touch your face!. Now you have this on your face and it itches and looks yucky!. Leave it alone!. Stop the use of peroxide and go to the store and buy a bar soap with no perfume or color added thats antibacterial!. It will say it on the package!. I believe lever 2000 has one,Dial, and many more brands!. Also buy Calamyne lotion and Triple Antibiotic ointment!. You can get all 3 for about 10 bucks total!. Much cheaper than a visit to the doctor especially since you don't have insurance!. When you take a shower every day wash with the anti bacterial soap and only that soap!. Wash your body first then the affected area!. Make sure to rinse all the soap suds off!. Get out and dry off!. But don't rub your towel over the affected area!. Dry your body first than pat the affected area dry with your towel then don't use the towel again until it's washed!. When you pat it dry try to make sure any scabs or crusties are off so it can continue to drain!. Put your Calomyne lotion on!. It heals poison ivy or oak and it really helps with the itching!. Once you notice it starting to dry up and get less annoying use the Triple Antibiotic ointment 2 or 3 times a day!. It will help it heal and it will make sure you don't itch it or get bacteria in it!. You can use both the Calomyne lotion and Triple Antibacterial ointment dailey!. Which ever feels best for you to relieve the itching!. But remember the ointment should cut the healing time down!.!.This will also work if its a bug bite or if you have a skin allergy to something like your soap etc!. Also sometimes on hot days or while exercising you can get extra sweaty and you can get a heat rash inside the folds of your skin, your armpits, your belly button etc!. This can also be that!. Or sometimes people shave off all the hair on the bodies including the peach fuzz on their tummies and this can cause razor burn and will result in a itchy, bumby rash!. The same treatment will work for all of these!. Without any other info or back ground I'm just making my best guess here!. If in a 2 or 3 day period you have followed the advice and don't see a big difference you need to go to the hospital or if it gets way worst!.!. Remember the no picking scabs and no itching it is part of the directions!.!.You must avoid it in order for this to help!. If you notice the rash looks and takes the shape of a target go right to the hospital!. That can be from a tick bite!. Certain ticks carry diseases like Lyme Disease that produce target shaped rashes!. I don't want to scare you but just in case!. Yours looks more like poison ivy or oak , or a minor skin irritation so try this and I'm sure it will work!. Anytime I can help feel free to write me!. Good luck!.
P!.S!. remember that when applying lotion or perfume or body sprays that sometimes if you are allergic your body will react like this with a bumby rash and itching!. (Or if you have an area that is infected avoid it!.) So if you are using any body lotions or body sprays avoid that area totally!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Don't clean it with peroxide!. That might dry it out and make matters worse!.
Get to a doctor as soon as you can, but until then, pick up some cortisone cream!. That can help stop the itching, and will kill the infection!. If the bumps are gone by then, don't worry about going to the doctor, it just looks like a minor irritation!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

You have stomach herpes!. It's nothing to be embarrassed about, I had it between my toes!.

I'm just kidding!. Maybe it's an allergic reaction to something!. Just put some Neosporin on it!. Hungry!? Eat some Neosporin!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

put benadryl cream on it looks like a rash of some sortWww@Answer-Health@Com





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