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Why is There Discharge/puss Coming out of my Belly Button? (photo)

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smak675Jun 19, 2013

I am almost 2 weeks post op from my tummy tuck and there is still fluid coming out of my belly button incision. it gets on my tank top too, so its not just a little. I have been wiping it out each day with a little alcohol but its not going away. It fluctuates from light yellow to clear-ish white. There is even a little bit of dried blood on my shirt when I remove it each day to shower. Is this something I should be worried about?

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Steven H. Wiener, MD

Sorry to hear about your problem. It appears that you are having a reaction to your sutures. Your body is trying to "spit the sutures", which is a foreign body. Options include local wound care and antibiotic ointment, or your surgeon can excise the suture knots, and place skin sutures and no...

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Vincent N. Zubowicz, MD

Swelling can indeed give the impression of having a waterbed on the abdominal wall. This will subside. No treatment is necessary unless a seroma develops under the flap.

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Vincent N. Zubowicz, MD

Because of poor blood supply along the incision after abdominoplasty small wounds may take considerably longer to heal than usual. Almost always they do without surgical intervention.

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Vincent N. Zubowicz, MD

I don't see any problem with healing at the moment. Careful but thorough cleansing of the umbilical area will decrease the amount of cresting as well as a number of bacteria.

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Earl Stephenson, Jr., MD, DDS, MBA

I'm not quite sure how you would know that but there should not be a cavity/space between the muscle and skin at six months.  I would seek the counsel of your PS has how he/she would like to proceed. Dr. ES

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Vincent N. Zubowicz, MD

You certainly presented complicated postoperative picture. I don't know about short legs and so forth but I do know that an umbilicus slightly off center after abdominoplasty can be corrected.

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