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Bad Smell and Weeping from Belly Button 4 Months After Tummy Tuck

asked 1 year ago by twiglet in Kent
Latest answer by Otto Joseph Placik, MD
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Tags: belly button, incision

my belly button has weeped from day one, and it stinks, my surgeon is not bothered, as much as I am. My bikini line has 2 holes in still, and they weep endlessly. I have had 3 stitches poke out from one of the holes and he has cut them each time, now I have another stitch coming out! I see him tomorrow. He puts silver nitrate on the holes and my navel and says off you go! I cannot wear nice clothes and my bedding needs changing daily. I got out the shower and bright red blood just poured out!

3 answers to Bad Smell and Weeping from Belly Button 4 Months After Tummy Tuck

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You need to get a second opinion if your surgeon not taking care of the problem

You should be healed fully by now and having discharge and wound problems 4 months post surgery in not normal. You need to ask your surgeon to explain to you the treatment plan and if you are not satisfied, get a second opinion from another board certified plastic surgeon.
Kamran Khoobehi, MD

New Orleans Plastic Surgeon
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Draining belly button after tummy tuck

It sounds as if the permanent sutures for the muscle repair and/or the fascial repair have become colonized. This does occur and is usually treated by removal of the sutures.
Otto Joseph Placik, MD

Chicago Plastic Surgeon
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Infected, Extruding Stitches after a Tummy Tuck

Clearly, by four month your Tummy Tuck should be well on its way to healing and you should not have malodorous discharge. It is not rare for some of the stitches we use to keep tissues together in Plastic surgery to make their way to the surface and be exposed or extruded. Once a stitch becomes exposed, it is immediately covered with bacteria (IE colonized) and the skin will not cover it. But, once the stitch is removed and the adjacent chronic inflammatory tissue is removed, the wound... more
Peter A. Aldea, MD

Memphis Plastic Surgeon

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