can a belly button piercing close when the ring is still in the body?
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No. I'm a body piercer, and I've yet to see this happen.\n\nMaybie you heard this somewhere and you misunderstood. The only way it could 'close' with a ring still in your body' is if your proper jewlery fell out (and you lost it)and you stuck a regular earring through, or some kind of hoop that is the wrong size for your navel. \nProper navel jewlery is 14 gauge ( the thickness of the wire) and earrings are about 16 to 18 gauge. It works backwards for 14 is much bigger than 16. Over time if you leave your imporper 16 gauge earring in your navel, it will close to the size of a 16 gauge.It will be difficult to get a 14 gauge in, but it is posible.\n\nThis is the only way that a navel fistula(skin tube)can close with the jewlery still attached. And it isnt really closing, its just getting smaller.
1062681
It depends where yoiu get it...I had one just below my waist, and they had to sew a screen in..it hurt for two weeks! It was in a bad spot, so no matter how I moved...ARRGGHHH!!\n\nMy wife just got one stitched up that was right above her bellybutton...wasn't so bad...a few days and she was perfect...\n\nGood luck!
374356
Well...........if it's in the "front door" you could get pregnant and when the baby comes out it might push the ring out too. If it's in the "back one" ummmmmmmm, when you poop you could check for anything that sparkles.\n\nS.S.
230445
there could be soap left in there and that can cause and infection.  but just so you know an infection in the belly button can spread very quickly to other parts of the body. they tell people that who get their belly buttons pierced. i recommend going to a piercing.tatoo parlor and buying this stuff called hibiclens.  it works great i have my belly pierced and i use this on my childrens cuts everything.
217635
Yes, you will have to take your piercings out... The explination they gave me was that if anything went wrong during surgery and they needed to intibate (breath for me) inserting the tube could possibly force the piercing in to the airway.... advice take them out and get re-pierced later... (I had to... agreed it stinks!)\n\nAs for tonsil removal at 18... I had it done at your age.... remember a very raw and sore throat for about three days and feeling very tired... not so bad that I couldn't eat a hamburger in a few days though!
858528
It's not really that exciting of a piercing, and depending on your ta-ta's size, you may not have a choice as to what kind of ring you put in it. I have large ones, so I had posts similar to those used in the tongue. Plus, because something is always rubbing against it, it gets infected easily. I would not recommend it. I had to take mine out for surgery, and I really didn't miss them.\nI also had a below the belt piercing, and those are hot, but if you are pierced to close to a nerve you get that pain-pleasure thing, which isn't always nice. Good luck!
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If you're asking about what jewelry to start out with, a ring will allow for a much better healing process. \n\nTalk to reputable body piercers in your area about this.  I can't stress enough that you should never have this piercing done with a gun.  People always think that piercing needles will hurt worse.  This is not the case at all.  Gun piercings do much more damage to the tissue than a piercing needle could ever hope to.  Needles are far less traumatic to the tissue and therefore hurt far less.
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whatever you do, don't take the ring out, if it is infected, the infection has to drain out. if you take the ring out it will swell and close. if you literally just pierced your nose it's not uncommon to have a bump. it's b/c your causing trauma to the tissue. it's your body's natural reaction to a foreign object. if it starts to swell, get red, or give off heat, then you  have an infection and need to see a doc for treatment( most likely antibiotics).
59104
It is still there. It is just cut in half. There are some surgeries where they just bind it with a rubberband like attachment.
490781
You should take them out now because your boobs are gonna get huge. Im 24 weeks pregnant. your nipples might start to push out the rings and they can get infected. I still have my bellybutton ring in tho. LOL
264217
First off how old are you?  If you're under 15 I'd say wait on navel piercings--- not a responsibility thing, more a your body won't do well with it and you're still growing up and maybe out who knows.. but if you want to do it anyway... get it done by someone who knows what they are doing....BUT if you can't do that then somehow find a hollow pt. 14 gauge needle to pierce it with and make sure everything is sterile *trust me get someone who knows how to do it do it*  I did my own when I was 14 with a leather needle and hoop earing *ok we're talking like 1989 here* but it got infected *ewe* then did it with hollow pt. needle *did ok but hurt like a SOB and got kinda infected* then waited a bit and got a ligit piercer to do it.. no problems since...
844091
I'm no scientist, but the belly button is a bit more than just a scar.  The baby's body has to reroute it's interior plumbing, and this is a "dead end" that has been closed off.  (The baby now breathes air and gets oxygen through the lungs, and gets it's nutrition through drinking milk.)    The umbilical cord was the major artery (coming in) and vein (going out for waste.) The closed off former cord heals quite remarkably.  Occasionally the stomach muscles will not knit together in this area, causing an umbilical hernia.  I had this condition, and had to have it surgically repaired when I was 4.\n\nA much more philosophical question is to ask, did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?  ;-)
577981
Take a nice long hot bath. Soak your hand in the water. Skin shrivels when it's soaking in hot water. The soaking alone should help it come off easily. In case it still hangs up on the knuckle a little liquid soap will allow it to slide off the rest of the way.\n\nIf that doesn't work, visit your doctor to have the ring cut off. You can get it repaired and re-sized at a jeweler later.
953314
After my c-section, because I was overweight, my scar had a hard time closing at the bottom.( I was cut from the navel down). It was because of the roll of fat. I had to lay down and hold the roll up to air it out. I also had to put peroxide on the scar. I haven't had any more problems since. What is happening to you sounds so wrong. Your doctors should be paying more attention to you and I can't believe that they are doing nothing about it. It could be infected. It sounds like your scar on the inside didn't heal correctly.I would see what the doctor says and if there are problems, consult a lawyer.Seriously. 3 years is a long time to be going through this. Good luck.
360124
Yes. Human beings do not have to have a belly button. I have seen a woman that was like this. It looks weird, but  we don't have to have them. We can still survive because we have entered the earth to intake oxygen rather than fluid or nourishment from our mother.
307390
the reason everyone has a belly button is this, when the doctor cuts the cord theres an open spot where it was connected to the child while inside the mother, after cutting the cord the doctor ties whats left of the cord in a knot which, depending on the person will leave either a recessed or protruding area known as a belly button, and if the knot thing doesn't sound right, stick a finger in there, you'll feel it
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clamp down on it hard for 15 minutes\nIf it stops bleeding and you can leave it alone, then probably no stitches are need, But if it is in a location where flexing will cause the cut to open, then YES stitch it closed