Patient's question:
How can I seek medical help to treat this? Can I get an anti-inflammatory injection? Or is it okay to use topical anti-inflammatory medications? What is the cause of the smelly, oozing, and painful abdomen?Doctor's answer:
In this case, it is necessary to consider the possibility of umbilical cord inflammation. However, if umbilical cord inflammation occurs repeatedly, it is necessary to consider whether there is a catheter involved. For this situation, it is recommended to go to the hospital for a color Doppler ultrasound examination to determine how to confirm the rupture of the umbilical cord urethra. Under the condition of infection control, surgical treatment should be performed as soon as possible to completely treat the disease.Seeing a very foul odor from the navel area. The navel area may be inflamed, and it is important to go to the hospital for timely examination. You can partially consider cleaning with hydrogen peroxide and normal saline. Additionally, you can choose povidone-iodine for disinfection, and it can be applied in hundreds of different ways. If it is inflammation, you can choose this anti-inflammatory drug, such as cephalosporin.