No, this is not my belly button. Mine is actually deeper than this one. Mine is so deep that you could fill it with water and use it as a dog/cat water bowl.
My belly button stinks. It stinks because it is freakishly deep. I have to clean it regularly or it smells like ass. I was tooooo embarrassed to ever talk about this until….
I did an internet search on “deep belly buttons” during a period of boredom. I was totally taken by surprise to find that “deep belly button” is all over the internet. Stuff like this……
“Sometimes when I try to clean it out I can’t get my finger in it properly, so I have to get a toothpick to scrape it clean. It’s just too small.”
From a site named, “Is It Normal?”……..
my belly button is smelly inside. its tight and it gets smelly really deep. ive been like this since i was young. and sometimes i sniff it and like the smell even though its a bit rank
Responses……
1/25/09…..I’ve decided to revive this post from the archives. I am surprised by the number of comments on it. The comments are really much better than the post. I didn’t realize how much interest this would generate. The inventiveness and sense of humor of all the commentators amazes me. Read them and be both entertained and educated.
All Commentators are now honorary members of THE STINKY BELLY BUTTON CLUB! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Update 9/28/09
I am surprised and amused that this post about belly buttons has generated more comments on my blog than any other post. I honestly never dreamed that so many people would comment about their own belly buttons. It’s a wonderful day! Stinky Belly Button People have come out of the closet and exercised our rights to be proud of a freakish belly button.
(This looks like someone stuck a booger in their belly button. Freakishly deep belly buttons ARE excellent places to hide things.) From I Used To Believe…. ”I used to believe that my belly button was a place to store my boogers for when i wanted a little delicacy late rin the day.”
People from all over the world have commented on this post with tales of living with, smelling, and cleaning their navels. I proclaim each and evey one of them as a member of The Stinky Belly Button Club!!!!!! And, to celebrate, I suggest that all members of TSBBC take a trip together to this place……
Here we can be proud of our weird belly buttons. The freedom of decorating your belly button (that your friends and family have made fun of for years) and dancing around is overpowering (as is the smell of all those stinky belly buttons).
(What a great idea for Halloween!)
So, keep those comments coming. And…STINKY BELLY BUTTONS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!!!!
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a topic that intrigues me also, although mine doesnt smell, it collects fluff. And no matter what I wear its always blue, a red shirt. Blue fluff. A ahite tshirt. Blue fluff. Nothing. Blue fluff. I doubt it shall ever be explained. Sigh.
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ROFLMAO my bf is the same way I asked him this once cuz he was wearing a green shirt and even when he wears button ups there should be no way u can still collect lint with button up work shirts. So i thought male belly buttons was the source of cotton production
the blue fluff you’re seeing is just a composite of the colours of the fabrics you are wearing. in addition studies have found that the collection of lint in the navel travels upwards from your lower garments rather than downwards.
cool website
Thanks, Amy!
I confessed by deep belly button odor to my boyfriend last night (and he almost fell off the bed gagging for the smell on my finger – I believe he said he hadn’t smelled anything like that other than when his cast was taken off his arm). Being the knowledge-bearer of odd information that he is, he immediately said that it’s most likely caused by our belly buttons being deep and when the skin cells in there die, they have no place to go but to stay in there (along with sweat and whatever else) and they end up rotting basically. Pretty gross. Since it’s impossible to air out all the tiny folds all the time, we’ll just have to settle for cleaning it out with a cotton swab daily if we want to keep the odor on the DL. After Googling this topic ourselves, we too laughed to the bottom of our belly buttons. =)
I also just positively *had* to share this article I found with you, also from the “isitnormal” page:
Every so often my bellybutton starts to stink and if I stick my finger in there I find this goo which smells absolutely disgusting. Even after cleaning it out daily it takes a week or two for it to go away. Sometimes it gets so bad I can smell it through my shirt and it crusts up around the rim of my bellybutton. Sometimes I’ll stick a little wad of toilet paper in there to soak up the juice and keep the stink from spreading.
It made me feel like my problem wasn’t quite so bad, after all
Mallory……thanks for sharing that with me. I don’t feel so bad now, either. “juice”……ugh!
I was reading that before we are born our urinary bladder is connected to our…oh heck now i forgot what it was.
I am pretty sure it said that by the time we are born it should be all dried up and if it isn’t by the time we are adults, which is what i am sure most of the writers here are, a bit of staphlococcus or staph bacteria can get to forming an infection there… sometimes even a bad thing called a neoplasm (A cancerous cell) if it continually drains ,i wouldnt waste time farting around with it. If there is a lump under the area it could also be a pus filled abscess. Oh well, now its time to go eat my supper.
Rose….that was one of the grossest things that I think I have ever read. But, informative. The problem now is that I’ll be obsessed about lumps and bumps in my belly button. Then, of course, I’ll be needing to check it with my finger every few minutes. Which in turn, will mean that my belly button will be sore and inflamed and I’ll have to wash my hands constantly.
Thanks for posting!
FINALLY, I have found a race of people I can identify with. I thought my 8 year old son and I were the only one’s with the dreaded “belly button funk”. Mine is cavernous. I can actually stick my finger into it up to the 2nd joint of my finger. Not to mention I have a little eczema which seems to always break out there. I am obsessed with cleaning it, which I think makes it worse sometimes. There is NO way I can describe the smell only that my worst fear is that it’s sweaty butt crack. GAG! I believe Howard Stern asked Cindy Crawford if her belly button stunk and asked if he could stick his finger in it. IT DID! HA!!!!
Take care brothers and sisters!
Member of the Stinky Belly Button Club
Hi again, bas, my dear sister of the Stinky Belly Button Club.
I can stick my finger up to the second joint to. And, you don’t know how thrilled that I am to know that I am not the only one!
So, here’s a little tip on how to use your stinky belly button to your advantage in child rearing.
When your 8 yr old (and other kids?) will not get up in the mornings after you have hollered until your throat is sore. Stick your finger in your belly button. Then stick it under his nose. I guarantee you that he will bounce up faster than Tigger with ass on fire. Of course, in your case, you will want to be cautious since he can do it back to you! When my girls wouldn’t get up, all I had to say is, “I am now sticking my finger in my belly button…..”. Those girls popped up like a Jack-In-The-Box!
I got a real good laugh at your hubby rippin’ one off at work! What a guy! Can I have him? Please
omg, I’m so excited that I have found this website. I, too, am a member of the ‘Stinky Belly Button Club’. My belly button stinks like rotting dog crap..maybe worse…ugh!
Just today I came home and changed into some lounge clothes and noticed a sort of pain around my waist. Being slightly overweight any time I wear jeans or bottoms, that are on the ‘tighter’ side, I have this problem…you know, the wrinkled skin that is always red, white, and shaped like whatever pants you were wearing, the spot that hurts and itches all the same? Well, that’s what I thought it was but my skirt hadnt been tight at all and when I looked I had no itchy, burny wrinkles inbedded in my skin and noticed that only my belly button hurt. Stinging, to be exact. I, long ago, began refraining from itching my belly button due to the horrific stench that would soon follow and seemingly never leave…so I just squeezed it and out comes this white puss like substance. I was disgusted, it looked like a huge open zit, I honestly could have thrown up. So, like usual, I got a Q-tip and stuck it in (until it was almost hidden in the black abyss that is my button) twirled a bit and brought it out….skipping the details of what came back out with the Q-tip…I then decided to clean it with rubbing alcohol…BAD idea! It burned like hell and it STILL burns…not only does it burn but it stinks….through my shirt….STILL!!!!
I have to go work and should be getting ready right now. Can anyone tell me what to do about this horrible stench….has anything worked for anyone so far? let me know.
oh and as far as ‘liking the smell’ goes….I HATE MINE! Yet, strangely….if I get it on my fingers, despite the knowledge of what it smells like already, I KEEP lifting my finger to my nose and sniffing…only to be disgusted once more by the same, never changing stink. I continue to do so until I force myself to go wash my finger tips profusely.
Hmm…doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result….that my fellow “stinkers” is the definition of insanity..is it not? LOL
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kelci!!!!! I, too, have a strange and sick compulsion to smell my fingers after dipping them in belly button crud. I think we are just hoping that we will smell and the stench will be gone.
Alcohol…bad, bad idea. I’ve done that. I’ve, also, put peroxide in my belly button. It didn’t really help anything but it was fun to watch it bubble up and make my belly button look like a human volcano.
Welcome to BBSC..Belly Button Stink Club!
i’ve tried alcohol and peroxide also..not at the same time…i clean it occasionally but my belly button stinks like a dirty butt…..i don’t feel so alone now, thanks ya’ll….on a more serious note, i now have a soft bubble like thing just above my belly button…inside….i push it and it seems to go down into my stomach and dissapear but comes back sometime immediatley but usually it takes a little while….very strange…any ideas?
James, I too had the bump you are describing in the exact same place. I never get sick so thought it was nothing, but was finally convinced to go to the doctor by my spouse. My doctor knew right away that it was a hernia and needed surgery. It’s probably not a serious one (mine wasn’t) but can worsen without treatment. We never did figure out how I got it.
Please, go to the doctor! Insurance covered most of the surgery (outpatient, back to work in a week).
I’m in this Belly Button Stink Club too.. haha woo!
I showed my family a few months ago when it started.. they just said ‘ew!, go clean it’
My boyfriend wasn’t as blunt he said”maybe you should get that checked out” and convinced me to see someone..
The doctor just looked at it and went ‘oh’ and gave me antibiotics that i believe didn’t do me any good.
I sprayed it, took a week to go away, since.. it’s come back about four times.
This time is just terrible, i’m sitting here and it’s stinging, i cleaned it out, looked terrible, it’s very sore and very red.. itchy and very sensitive around the belly button area…
I guess I’ll just have to take extra care in cleaning it…
I’m happy that other people get this too and i don’t feel so silly talking about it…
thankyou =]
I never cared about my belly button all these while until recently. All I could remember was that my dad’s belly button was hollow and nothing inside. I realized I put on some weight and then now my belly button has some stuff in it. its getting deep but I cant stick a finger in it because its small lol. it doesn;t have any smell at all though although I might worried if it did
It’s good to know that soooo many people have stinkin’ belly button stories.
Thanks for posting, chimuchan!
I to am pluaged with this problem, I did find this link http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/ate/infections/203127.html that had a medical condition associated with BBF(belly button funk). Good luck to all of us.
OMG. i thought i was alone, all these years in misery with this smell. i try to remember to clean it everyday, yet the smell is still there. how awful, and in comparison, i guess the smell of ass can be the most politically correct way to put it hahaha. i sometimes watch tv and see party people on tv go to the bars and suck out alcohol from the belly… i just think to myself, omg i must be the only unlucky person to be stuck with this crap. because no way in hell can anyone even come near that belly hole nevermind sip liquor from it… it’d make them sober from being drunk in the mean time LOL. so i guess there’s no real diagnosis nor cure eh… pain, if i invent something i might be rich… ok let me hit the lab lol.
fujisan…sweetie, you are definitely not alone. And when you get that formula, patent it PDQ (right after you send it to me) and you’ll be RICH!
If somebody tried to sip alcohol from my belly button, they would pass out and be mistaken for drunk.
I am not an official member, but I had this problem lately! I think it is because I have been wearing some tight fitting pants recently and haven’t been able to take a proper shower in a few days(traveling etc)Plus it’s summer, so I believe the tight clothes plus sweating(and I am also 50 lbs overweight) is detrimental. lol
Just now I cleaned it out with organic soap, and patted it dry, and then applied EV Coconut Oil to it and it seemed to help the hurting. Coconut oil makes a good lotion too.
Maybe this might help someone.
Kristn…..dear, you are now an official member just by posting here.
Thanks for posting! And, thanks for the tips!
This is good stuff. I live in a little town here in Hanford and believe me, I needed a good laugh. My Husband and I both agree on this one. The funnyness Yes, belly buttons smell. Belly BUTTons. Get it??? “Butt”-ons
Mine use to. Maybe not as extreme as some of y’alls however there was a ..smell.I had a slight tummy-tuck to rid myself of nasty stretch marks so now my b-hole, is little and not stinky. (by the way, I meant bellyhole for all you naughty minds out there) Kinda interesting though. Why are we, mostly females compelled to sniff our fingers? What is it we really crave???Do men sniff theirs? Does the male belly hole even stink? Ewhh, I bet it does. Wait..I’ll go check….Oh!!GRODY!!! Yep, My husbands does a bit. Well Gotto go wash off my finger and strangely enough have sex…Cheap thrill hehe he…
jodi…I LOVE you. I love everything that you wrote. And, admittedly, at first glance, I thought you meant butthole and not belly hole. I was totally thinking that was whacked. How could a tummy tuck affect a belly? Hmmmm….that might not be a bad thing if it did, though. The butthole being little and not stinky, I mean.
Don’t kid yourself for one second….men smell EVERYTHING. You’ve just been lucky so far that he hasn’t had the idea of sticking his belly-buttoned juice coated finger under your nose.
Having sex…hmmmm….maybe, you shouldn’t wash your finger. It might be kinda kinky. Hey, maybe, it might work like those capsules (I forget what they are called…starts with an a) that you break under the other person’s nose just as the get to the…uh…”moment”!
Please post again. I enjoyed your comment quiet a bit.
Oh Lord, I hope it’s not the sex/stinky finger idea that has me yearning to here more about your life. LOL
The odor is caused by common skin bacteria that have a moist small place to grow via the umbilicus. (bellybutton)
Not a big deal. Wash daily in your shower and and apply baby powder or cornstarch with a swab to keep it the normally moist area dry. That will illiminate odor.
I get really irritated at the funky goo that comes out of the belly button. Its gross it stinks and it wont go away. I am relived and glad that i am obviouly not the only one who has this problem. Its really embarrassing when my 3 year old daughter is playing and tickling me and her little fingers will go in the belly button and she will immediatly scream EEWWWEE and if she smells it ( she has before) The shreak will awake the dead. I hate this problem how can we make it go away >>>>>>>
Ya know what we need….a Belly Rooter…a Roter Rooter type thingy for belly buttons. It should have a small spinning brush and a suctioning device to get rid of the nasty brew left after cleaning.
thanks for stopping by reallyirrated….You are now a member of our exclusive Stinky Belly Button Club.
hahaha…I love this website.
After loads of nagging from my mom I finally went to the nurse and had my belly button swabbed and sent to the lab today.
It smells so bad, but I can’t stop sticking my finger in and smelling again…until i’m disgusted by myself and go and scrub my fingers and belly button!
Nice to know i’m not the only one!!
Welcome to The Smelly Button Club, PinkyKaty
oh joy!! i just came across this website after i walked into the office naked, and my husband shoved his finger in my belly button (it seems to be a fetish of his, my belly button has been penetrated more than my vagina it seems)
anywho, i looked down at my button and noticed there was a poop ring around it, thinking maybe i dropped some chocolate on myself and thats where it happened to land. Nope! same old smell, I had forgotten about my belly button funk for so long… its back though, i need a daily reminder to clean my button i guess.
So is there a Smelly Belly Club membership card or anything? I’d like one, maybe a jacket too… with a little hole cut out for the belly button to breathe.
MrsPB…funny stuff. But, ya know, if you have any jackets, they already have belly button holes in them. Funk tends to eat away at stuff.
I will, at this time, welcome you as our newest Smelly Belly (not to be confused with Jelly Belly…no wait, I’m sure that some of us have jelly bellies, Club!!!!!
Smelly Jelly Belly Club…how’s that?
And, your hubby sounds like the King Of Kinkiness!
haha.. i guess you’re kind of right about the jackets! except i just never button mine down enough to cover my belly button. For some reason i get really irritated when my belly button is feeling crowded.
After I posted my last response I text messaged a friend of mine and told him to smell his belly button (because i know he has a deep one due to the fact that he is just a large large teddy bear man) and he refused! So did my brother…. my frickin husband has an outie, i only hope our children will have normal belly buttons. I hate my husband’s outtie, it looks like a third eye staring back at me.
Uh huh…I gotcha! Actually, it can be quite useful sometimes. Once your kids know exactly how BAD your belly button stinks, you can threaten them with it. Just stick a Q-tip in and rub around really good. Then, you can use the smelly q-tip as punishment or incentive (threaten to make them smell it).
We gotta learn to use our SBB(stinky belly buttons) responsibly, though. I think of mine as a concealed weapon!
I was laying down with my dog and she moved by my stomach and started smelling it which brought me to remember, oh yeah Ive got that weird belly button thing going on, one day a few years ago, I itched inside my belly button and it felt kinda wet so I of course, smelled it and was like wow , that was foul. ever since then I would take care to clean it in the shower dry it and swab with a qtip, noone has ever noticed the smell, not even during the DEED when around that area, I thought it was just because at that time i was about 100 pounds overweight, but ive since then lost it and its still there but I dont always think about it until today, stuck my finger in and it was kinda crusty n wet so cleaned it and decided to look it up and am glad to have found this, the answer I agree most with was on another site and mentioned something about how somepeoples buttons stay dry but some are just moist which can hold bacteria and say you get osme lint food anything in there, thats a nice home for them to breed so that may be where the smell was coming from but then again it could just be normal wierd body stuff that doesnt afflict everyone. Just more reason that your special. lol
Bianca….wet? That’s a good theory. Maybe, I can use one of those Swifter duster thingys and make sure that it is dry.
And, Bravo to you for being brave enough to use the word “crusty”!!!!!
I’M SURE ALL YOU PEOPLE WITH STINCKY BELLY BUTTONS ARE OVERWEIGHT. THE WAY YOU CAN SOLVE IT IS….LOSE WEIGHT
WEIRD THING IS THAT I USED TO LIKE HOW MINE SMELLED EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A BAD SMELL LOL
I USED TO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM WHEN I GAINED ABOUT 30LBS. WHEN YOU ARE OVERWEIGHT YOU SWEAT MORE AND YOUR BELLY BUTTON GETS DIPPER AND DIPPER AND COLLECTS BAD STUFF IN THERE THAT STINKS
“dipper and dipper” WTH is that?
. FYI, my belly button smelled when I was 15 lbs underweight. Stop catorgorizing people. Also, stop using CAPS for posting.
It makes you look stupid.
Glad to know im not alone,ive seen some of the reasons you guys put and i dont know about you guys.
Here are a few things you should know.
1.Im FAT
2.i have a weak stomach resulting in diehoorea(i cant spell it but its a.k.a watery shit.
3.Deep belly button, or so i think it is.
ok here are my ideas about why,ive noticed afew patterns about it.
1.Im FAT
2.when i over eat/eat too much oily stuff,the gates of hell will open and the foul smell will come out.
So, wanna have a vote? Which part of this stuff do you hate most.
I VOTE SMELL.
its the worst part, i dont really mind the crusting, i mean it may be creepy but i kinda like to remove it, just like an itch or picking your nose(DONT LIKE, I KNOW YOU LIKE IT TOO)
opps. a little typo i made there, i meant to say (DONT LIE, I KNOW YOU LIKE IT TO)
Also, i have a theory to what it is, the first part to it is EURO-GRL21′s theory,(EURO-GRL21 seems to have a problem with fat people,i suggest killing yourself asshole =) )The sweat builds up as fat people usually have 2 tyres(if you know what i mean)and sweat collects there and flows to the hole like a drainage pipe.
The second part is that(this will sound abit childish) the body cant take too much oil and tries to remove it via the belly button.
sorry for double posting, i cant edit the last one and i after i thought about it i decided to add somemore.
Read the date! HAPPY NEW YEAR AND A HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR IN 30th jan. =)
Fat SG kid…..welcome to The Stinky Belly Button Worldwide (we’ve gone global!!!) Club
What you wrote makes perfect sense to me.
Is that sarcasm -,-
no….Fat Kid…not being sarcastic.
You made some good points.
K
Hope you come back and post again.
Have you guys tried…
well what i do from time to time is use four tools.
i know this might sound weird, but…its a solution
1 tweezer
1 ear pick
1 bright light
1 mirror
i close the tweezer and insert it into the belly button and then let go, opening up the button, and slowly make it to the end.
next i shine the light into it while facing the mirror allowing clear view of the belly button
i use the ear pick and gently scrape around the sides, moving the tweezer if i have to, and move the “bulb?”, at the end of the tunnel, side to side, and scrape.
i can acutally look into the belly button, but a mirror is helpful. i do this after a shower, so everything inside is easier to scrape.
the stuff i remove, i suspect, might be the source of smell and after i remove it, it smells slightly better
You should make kits and sell them, OddbBall. There appears to be a fairly large market of stinky belly button people.
My bb is soooo deep, I’d need a flashlight on a stick or rope to see the bottom.
haha i pissed my pants when i read all of this rotfl
Hello! Thank goodness for this website (I live in the UK and thought I was the only one with this problem – may be I am in Britain???) I am 5’6″ and only 8 and a bit stones so am not overweight but I have a MAJOR problem with my belly button – it is very, very deep and REALLY tight – I can’t get a cotton bud in there at all and have never managed to reach its innermost depths! And yes, it really smells awful when I manage to force a bit of finger in…Also, it’s all greasy and occasionally goes red and very itchy and then I just have to put germoline (do you have that in the USA) cream on the bits I can reach. When my husband wants to aggravate / torture me, he tries to shove HIS sausage fingers in there and it’s unbearable – and even worse, he is now teaching my 4 year old son to do the same – it’s agony and makes me go bonkers but at the same time, I can’t stop myself from laughing hysterically. I have absolutely no idea what’s lurking in there as I can’t get down far enough…Any suggestions???
Deb…my suggestion is to go ahead and let your little son stick his finger in it. Then, MAKE HIM SMELL IT!!!! I’ll bet he won’t do it again.
This is both a serious and amusing sujbect…our stinky belly buttons. I never dreamed that so many people had this problem. Or, so many people would post comments.
OK readers….help Deb. My belly button is not tight like hers so I’m not sure what to suggest. Any other tight and stinky BB’s out there?
Also, Deb…what is germoline? I’ve never heard of it so apparently, we don’t have it here.
Good luck with your BB!!!!!
Hello – me again – well, barbie, got my son to sniff his finger, as suggested – complete nightmare – although he cried out “Bleurgghhh, Poo-eeeee” upon sniffing the offending digit, he just did it again – and again and again, thoroughly enjoying the whole experience! It seems he actually LIKES the repulsive odour. Now I’m really stuck! (PS Germoline is a bright pink antisceptic ointment that’s used for just about everything here in Blighty!)
Oh my goodness, Deb. You seem to have a weird little rugrat! On the upside, if he keeps sticking his finger in your BB, he might actually clean it out! WTH….go ahead and let him enjoy his freakish pleasure. Just kidding ya…what I really suggest is that you keep some antibacterial like Purell readily available for him.
Thanks for stopping by again! Keep me updated on your son’s BB fascination.
Omfg…
Yay! I’m not alone in the belly button funk!
Reading everything on this page gave me the giggle fits. I’ve had a rather fragrant belly button since I was young and could never quite figure out just what the heck was up with it. I HATE the smell, but for some reason my cat adores it and will spend quite awhile servicing my belly button with her tongue. Sand paper tongue hurts like hell, but it does the job nicely. Anymore I just let her clean it for me, and since she’s become the professional belly button cleaner, it doesn’t really have a bad funk anymore. It’s gotten to the point where all I have to do is just lay down and she assumes the belly button position. She’s even bitten me on the belly just so I lift up my shirt so she can have at it. Although recently after a trip and no assigned button cleaner around, my hubby shoved his finger in there thinking I’d enjoy it. I can’t stand to have anyone touch my belly button, save for my trusty feline, so when he pulled his finger out and sniffed it, he promptly gagged and I told him it was revenge for violating me.
He has a semi-outie she he will NEVER have that problem. Lucky arsehole lol.
*sniffles* at least I’m not alone anymore!
Syoa…..no, you’re not alone with having a stinky belly button. And, I don’t have a clue if you’re the only one with a feline belly cleaner. Maybe, someone else will be brave enough to admit to it.
If anyone else wants to share an unusual BB cleaning method, I’d love to hear it. I don’t know if anyone can top Syoa, though.
Okay, so first of all this is one of the funniest posts I’ve read. Secondly: my belly button problem.
I have an outie (just my luck) and it doesn’t smell particularly bad, but it still bugs me. If I stick a Q-tip in, it emideatly hurts.
Does it realy matter if I clean it? More importantly, if I don’t clean it out now, will it become terrible in a few years?
Audrey….I’m not a doctor…..just a stinky BB owner. In my opinion, yes, you should clean your belly button. But, with an outie (you lucky girl!), you probably should not be sticking anything in it. Also, just in my opinion, anything left uncleaned is gonna cause a not so fresh feelin’ after a few years.
This is my fav post because it has addressed what is a serous issue for some of us, let us know that we are not alone, but has given has some great laughs.
I hope I hear from more innies and outies!
Trailerparkbarbie,
I got your Comment on my site. I would LOVE to be a member of your Clubs , Just let me know where to sign up. You are one CRAZY chick, Could this be why I feel closely related to you some how. By the the way the alcohol and q-tip cleaning worked for my Stinky inny BB. Hope to here from you soo
Hiya InANutshelll……..On my way out right now. Will come and visit you later this evening. Glad you stopped by!
Stan
Sorry to report this but…..
I had a huge donation ready to send to you for being the kind an compassionate guy that you are and posting that great advice.
Alas, my buddykins, the donation had to be given as hush money to the EMT’s who answered my 911 call . I couldn’t risk the media exposure of them sending pics of me with a Shop Vac hose stuck to my naval area sucking up not only lint but tender and necessary skin to Fox news. The thought of Shep Smith being traumatized was just to much for me to bear.
No money is forthcoming at the present time but do accept my eternal gratitude for your wise advice.
Gotta run for now, sweetums ( without benefits), because the EMT’s are bringing tears to my eyes pulling on that damn vac hose.
Fondly yours
TPB…..your #1 friend without benefits in the whole wide world.
TPB~you have too much time on your hands girlie! LOL
Noe….it’s Stan’s fault. He provokes me!
i find that my belly button smells like rotten fruit punch mixed with bleach. ugh. disgusting, i even managed to clean the whole thing out and pulled out what looks like a white tick (which it is not). i did google it cuz i was concerned, and i found a few websites that say that it can often be a fungi infection, and i guess the belly button is a perfect place for it to grow cuz it’s damp and warm, sometimes it can be cancer, and sometimes it can be from just repetitively cleaning it. The deeper your belly button, the more stank and cleaning issues you’re going to have with it. However, it is completely normal, you should get it checked out though, sometimes doctors can give you some cream to keep it clean and take the infection away, and that’s how people have found cancer, too. And I guess some scientists say that if you keep the hair around your belly button shaved or get a piercing, it actually minimizes your stank problems and infections…just a thought.
Hi ellie….thanks for the advice. And, I must say that your description of “belly button stink” is one of the most descriptive that I have ever read!
loyal homage….hmmmmm…..why, yes I will!
Thanks for the idea, MBEFWOB.
I have recently discovered that I have a stinky bellybutton. I came to the internet for answers and came across this site. After reading all the posts and laughing so hard I now have another issue….wet panties.
This is so funny. I am glad I have company in this issue. I have a T shaped belly button its pretty deep too i guess. Before I ever even noticed that it smelled (I’m not a scratch and sniff kind of person) I notice that when I shower I usually just let the soap run off my belly button rather actually scrubbing it and washing it and all that. I eventually found out it does smell like ass or something. Since I was a teenager I make it a huge point to 1- wash my belly button 2- use q tip to dry it out and then 3- spray or dip a q tip in perfume and make it smell good and 4-use baby powder. Most people who know I do this find this odd but I don’t know Its like I HAVE TO DO THIS! Besides it really only takes like 2 minutes. I think it smell like ass because it is alike in many ways, really– its deep, round, wrinkly, and inside your body.
Hey! So pleased to discover this site – I remember looking this up several years ago and found nothing! I have suffered with smelly belly button for several years, since I was at least 14 (I’m 26 now) and I hate it!!! Sometimes I can smell it hanging around me and I worry like hell that someone will realise it’s coming from me and think I am dirty (I am not). This problem has just recurred for me – it actually went away for a while (actually a few years) after I put salt down there for a few mins then had a bath. It totally worked! It’s the warm, moist environment making a perfect place for bacteria/fungi. Makes it itchy and if you scratch the skin is so thin it will crack a bit and you can get a secondary infection in the skin which makes it all red and sore. (I am a doctor btw, in england). I try to never put my finger or anything else down there because of the risk of introducing bacteria. I am definitely going to get the salt out now and put it down there before I get the red sore skin! I would suggest, if you don’t enjoy having this problem, like some of you seem to(!), try salt, and if that doesn’t work go to your doctor and get a swab done, and get antibiotics for whatever grows. And don’t poke it! Also be aware that any lumps or bumps could be cysts which can be sorted, and a lot of pus or even urine coming out of the belly button could be a urachal deformity left over from birth (a tract or duct which doesn’t close properly) and this can be fixed surgically. There is also a very small chance that this could be a cancer so anything that seems new or more unusual than a small amount of pus or smelly fluid should probably be investigated. Love to all you fellow smelly bellies!
Thank you for posting that, drkrug! You are right about poking around at it. Whenever, I stick a Q-tip or even the end of a wash clothe in my belly button, it becomes red and irritated. Once, I got the ingenious idea to soak cotton balls in peroxide and stick one in my belly button. Then I put surgical tape over it. BOY….it bubbled up like a mini-volocano. And, then it got red and irritated. So, for the most part, since I’ve been aware of my stinky belly button for the most part of my life, I just wash it and leave it alone.
I will try your salt suggestion. I’ll let you know how it worked.
Thanks!
Wow! cool site.
I think it is human nature to unconciously ‘pick’ at your body. That is how we all discover things that are out of the ordinary (such as a tick). Well, I have a deep ‘innie’ bb and have felt something inside it. I couldn’t really gain access down to the bottom to see what it was or even to retrieve it. So I just left well enough alone…. until tonight. I was determined to get to the bottom ‘so to speak’. I ended up using a plastic toothpick and carefully worked it until I could hook this rascal. I wondered if it was a tick! Well, holy mackerel what emerged was much larger than I thought! It looked like a babies tooth or something. When I had it halfway out, i was like…’oh crap’… i hope this is not attached or something. But then i pulled it and it came on out. whew! I consider myself a clean person as i shower daily, but don’t really mess with the BB. I guess I will from now on!
Gads!
kevonater…..well, you’ve certainly got me curious now! I’m trying to get up my nerve to dig around in my belly button. I’m sorta afraid that I might find a whole little person in there, though. Or, maybe a family of little people. I wonder what on earth that was that you dug out? EEK!
It was really an impactful experience for me. After the horriffic realization struck that I had just pulled this…. ‘thing’ out of my body, I ran downstairs to immediately get on the internet and find out anything I could about this. It was freaky to think that this little guy had been a passenger for YEARS! I remember trying to dig this thing out years back and couldn’t complete the task as it was too elusive. I thought that perhaps it was the remnents of my umbilical cord. While it was a bit troubled by the whole thing…. I was also in a state of amazment as well, and thought about the ordeal several times today and chuckled to myself. The only way i can describe it, would be a slightly conical shaped round wedge that was hard/brittle on one side (the wider side that was facing outward) and softer & pliable on the ‘lower’ two thirds. It was a white-ish color, and it was not really oily as I would have expected something like this to be. And yes.. i did the smell test on it, and it had a faint odor but nothing overwhelming or anything like I have read from others.
This site gave me just the comic relief that I needed to recover from this whole thing. All better now. (for awhile i was wondering if I had just wrecked my belly button by pulling some important thing out that had been attached…and now I was going to need some surgery or something). Yes..i actually considered this after reading some of the $hit on other sites!!! LOL
oh yeah.. subscribe me!
kevonater….At least you didn’t go all nutso and call 911 or anything. I think that I would have gotten out a magnifying glass or microscope and had a good look. That’s some belly button story!
Oh. My. God.
First of all, your honesty in letting the world know your belly button smells like ass is so courageous of you.
But that nineteen-year-old’s story of his hairy, gray balls?!!! I’m dying here laughing. Poor kid. He’s got to wax that shit before college or find an older woman who’s totally into it.
I’m inspired. Gracias.
Lots of people have stinky belly buttons! It’s not just the overweight or unclean. Bacteria and fungi are part of being human. Sometimes they’re just hard to kill. There is even a special cleaner for smelly belly buttons. It’s called The Navel Fresh Spray. It’s for a stink navels that can’t get clean from soap and water and it happens to a lot of people.
Hi… I’ve suffered from this problem for several years, but recently, after trying a lot of silly cures, I used this product that helped extremely well. It is called “Dequadin Oral Paint”. It is used to treat fungal and bacterial infections of the mouth. I put 2-3 drops of this medicine into my bellybutton after having previously cleaned it. After the next day, the unpleasant smell has all but vanished.
I’d recommend researching some info about it before using it…
http://www.rxmed.com/b.main/b2.pharmaceutical/b2.1.monographs/CPS-%20Monographs/CPS-%20(General%20Monographs-%20D)/DEQUADIN.html
I hope this helps someone out there.
Hey, my friend Kathleen told me about this site, and i have to thank both her and you all for making this happen. I thought I was alone with my belly button juice, but no, there are others. I will no longer walk with shame of my nauseating navel. Thank you thank you thank you
Luke…you are most welcome. No need to suffer in embarrassment off in a lonley corner somewhere. There are waaaay more people with STINKY BELLYBUTTONS that will admit to having them. They think other people don’t know. But, they ain’t foolin’ nobody…especially the ones who are around them when they are nekkid….
i too have the smell belly problem. after shower, i dry it well and then insert a tiny ball of cotton tighytly, all the way (you may fill it with as much cotton as you need. surprising;ly my bb stays clean till the next shower. not even the cotton ball smell.
let me know..
you must have a deep belly button too
so here is the conclusion its either you have a deep belly button and it smell worst than a horses ass or you have a shallow belly button that takes aways the jobs of many who work on a cotton plantation since its endless lint production in there no matter what shirt you wear
You couldnt be more right on
This may be this blog’s best post yet
Hello everyone! I have this problem too and have for years. I’ve come up with some treatments that work for me.
First, a couple of things you should know. I am not overweight. I’m a healthy 22 bmi. Also, after I had my baby, I was overweight for a while, and I was affected the same by belly button funk. Another thing to know (for credibility) is that I am a doctor.
The stinky sore belly button happens because yeast and bacteria like the dark moist places. I’ve tried vigorous drying with cotton or blowdryer, even baby powder or cornstarch. It seems i’d stlll have the stink, but maybe not as bad.
I will give you my secrets. For a belly button that’s red, irritated, think about fungus or yeast. Get an over-the-counter antifungal cream like monistat (or any). Squeeze some in there before bed and the next day. This will take care of the red/irritated yeast component.
There will still be odor (although not as sore). So next, take a q-tip (or several) and dip them in a bottle of iodine. Then clean your bb out with that. It wont burn, but will stain clothing. Pat dry the excess iodine. I assume you can buy iodine at pharmacy. I just get the prepackaged swabs from the hospital.
There you have it! Symptomatic control!
Good luck!
“This would be a perfect pastime except for the fact I get shooting pains in my bum-hole if I dig too deep.” Got me into a laughing fit!
Me, too! Not a laughing fit…pangs in my bumhole if I dig too deep. Makes me wonder if the doctors did not cut our umbilical cords and tucked them in instead.
Is the Belly Button Club still in existence? Just happened upon the site because I’m feeling itchy and irritated again. Should have joined this group years ago as I was once treated for a BB infection. Was told it was a fungus/candida infection and given a prescription fungal ointment to stick down in there. I swear I think the doctor tied my navel wrong when I was born. The knot part has always hurt BAD when you press on it and it has a deep shelf that collects lint that is hard to pry out of there. When I was a kid my mom used to dig that stuff out once a week because its hard for me to see in there. Since I gained weight its impossible to see down that endless tunnel and even now that I have lost a ton of weight my belly button still is like a deep, dark cavern.
I KNOW exactly what you mean! I am the only one in my entire family with a deep belly button. I think the doc screwed up!