Can you die if you pierce your own belly button?
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596067
yes a supra pubic cath can be surgically put in but the tube will come out under your belly button.
498384
Breaking off a piece of the xiphoid process is not likely to be fatal.  Painful, yes.  Dangerous, quite possibly.  There is the risk that it could puncture a lung or cause a laceration on the liver, but it's not going to result in "instant death" as others have indicated.  If the piece is broken, but not displaced a physician may determine that the best treatment is to leave it alone and allow it to heal on its own.\n\nRegardless, it should be evaluated by a medical professional.
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no its impossible because your belly button is a mark left after the umblical cord is cut,the umblical cord facilitates the movement of food molecules from the mother to the unborn child and waste materials from the unborn child to the mother,so for a person to be without one means they did not feed and its not possible
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Well it depends while such delves into anothers body have been done it never lasts very long. The only way that would be possible is if your inner self was significantly stronger than the other persons. But if I were you I would not atempt it because your ionner self may be killed which can result in the destruction of yourself and even if you could that would be seriously bad karma and would probaly cause you unbearable tortures.
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Depends on how severely you severed it.  If it was totally cut at the C7/T1 (there is no C8 in most mammals) you would probably cut off ennervation and autonomic control of the heart and lungs, which would, in general, be very bad.
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You can do it but you shouldn't!  If your bowel becomes strangulated then you will be in serious trouble.  The blood supply gets cut off and then you get gangrene.  It is serious.  Get the hernia fixed.  Wait six weeks and start exercising again.
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It's not the "cutting" so much as the why.  Every self-mutilator I have met has said that hurt, anger sadness, any emotion gets so bad that cutting relieves the pain.  In history doctors used to try to cure diseases by "blood letting"  cutting the patient so the "bad, diseased blood" would be removed from the body.  How deep do you cut?  do you require sutures?  Most cutters are not suicidal, but sometimes accidentally kill themselves by cutting too deep or hitting an artery.  Counseling is not a bad thing, if you get the right person, but you have to want to go or it won't help you.
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The bellybutton is a scar from the umbilical cord.  The umbilical cord is attached to the baby from the mother in the womb and supplies nutrients and oxygen.  \n\nWhether your belly button is an "in-sy" or "outy" depends on how the doctor tied the umbilical cord after you were born.\n\nUntil they start growing babies in jars, everyone is going to have an umbilical cord and a scar (belly button) when it's removed.
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U can die by ur own hands!!!
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.
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no offense to some of the people who have answered you, but never ever ever put peroxide on a piercing! Just keep rising with an anteseptic like scope. As for the bump don't worry about it. The skin around a new peircing dies. It is nothing to worry about; just the body's way of accomadating something that doesn't belong. It will go away on it's own. If you are having infected looking puss, rinse with listerine or a hospital grade mouthwash everytime you put anything in your mouth. DO NOT take out the peircing if it is infected. The skin can cover the infection and trap it. The result could be very bad, up to a systemic infection that could make you very sick or even kill you! If you are that worried go see a doc and get an antibiotic. Make sure you are taking a multivitamin and xtra zinc, b vitamins, and C. these all help in healing.
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Whatever you do, do NOT remove your jewelry without consulting your piercer (well, if he/she is a true professional) or seeing a doctor. By removing the jewelry you would run the risk of trappin gthe infection. This is one of the most difficult piercings to heal, believe it or not, so if you're determined to keep it you really need to talk to somebody. For at home, in the mean time, take vitamin C and zinc, which aids the healing process. Don't play with your jewelry and continue to wash it, I recommend using Provon or Silk medical soap...it's affordable and used by surgeons for pre-op scrubbing. Flip a cup of WARM sea-salt water (1/4 tsp to 8oz) over onto your navel to soak the wound for 10-15 minutes twice a day...do not over soak because this can cause more harm then good! If you don't want to sit with a cup over you belly then you can soak cotton balls in the sea salt solution and stick them on your belly. Avoid peroxide at all costs! Make sure you clean it out well after showering, too. Carefully move the jewelry through the hole to losen up the crusties that form! Good luck healing your piercing and just remember to take it slow. Piercings take time, which a lot of people odn't realize before they go and get one.
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probably not.  belly buttons are where the placentas connect to the embryo, since they weren't born, they were created i don't see why they would.
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No, but you will probably get an infection around the bit that's left (like when you get a sliver under your skin)
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Yes it sounds like you could have an adominial hernia, that could get strangulated if you do not get treatment for it.  Once it is strangulated, the blood supply to the piece of gut, that is protruding, will be cut off causing severe problems
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You might not die from cutting.  It's possible you could accidently cut something you didn't know was a major vein or artery.  To those who are less understanding, they don't exactly see why you would want to cut yourself, and for many people it is scary, and creepy.\nI have a different perspective, however.  I haven't cut on myself for at least 2 months (a major victory for me, considering how depressing and sad life has gotten - or has seem to have gotten).  I had in fact made it 2 years without a single incidence of cutting.  That was after coming from cutting 4-5 times a day.  It is difficult.  Something that made a large difference in my life was a place called the Utah Boys Ranch.  Here is a website:  http://boys.westridgeacademy.com/ (and I'm listing it in the sources as well).  It wasn't easy, but living with self-mutilation isn't either.  It is also expensive without insurance, but you can find people who will help you.  I have more memories from there than any other place.  Whataver you do, seek help, especially from God.  God loves all of us, and allowed his son, Jesus Christ, to suffer all or our pains, both of sin and of daily lives.  He suffered all things that ever happened and ever will happen of every person who has ever lived or who will ever live.  'God loved us so he sent his only begotten son; that if we believe on Him [and keep his commandments] we might not perish, but have everlasting life."  You cannot do it on your own; do not reject the help of your family and friends.  Further, don't ignore the help of an Almighty and loving Father in Heaven.  God bless you; you seem more in need than I do.\nOne more thing:  it won't be easy.  Thomas Paine said "What we gain too cheaply, we esteem to lightly."  Feeling good and overcoming is something not to be esteemed lightly.\n\nFurther to comment for some of the answerers on this page, cutting is an addiction worse than alchohol or drugs.  No offensse or anything, but please don't say "Just stop cutting", because it isn't that easy.  It's like saying to a heroine addict "Just stop doing drugs," or to a smoker "Just quit smoking already."  It isn't easy.  I cut myself because I hate myself (that IS the right tense - I still do, although less) and felt I needed to be punished.  I felt somewhat relieved of burden - if only for a while - when I cut myself, because the abuse from my father was being manifested; and to me, the abuse was love.  Hitting me and hurting me was the way I grew up knowing my father loved me.  Saying "Just stop cutting" isn't going to help, and has helped little if not never in this sort of situation.