Painful pimple inside belly button

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i have a painful pimple inside belly button with blood and puss. It appeared around 10 days ago, it was not itchy nor painful at first, after a few days it started to get slowly bigger and slightly painful only when pressed. After I went to the gym and did some jogging and running it swelled quite fast and the following day it became a lot bigger and oozing blood and puss. The pimple is almost as big as my belly button now

Submitted: 4 Days
Category: Dermatologist

Expert:  Dr. Kruti Jobanputra Banodkar replied 4 Days.

Hello,

Thanks for posting your query at DoctorSpring.com. I can understand your concern.

From the picture, it looks like a furuncle. A furuncle is a bacterial infection of the skin.

However, it would be better to visit a doctor who can physically examine it, as it's difficult to judge it's dimensions and origin from the picture.

The treatment for it would be a course of oral antibiotics like erythromycin. Application of fucidin cream or neosporin cream would be helpful.

You would need a prescription for the oral antibiotics and the fucidin cream.

Hope this helps, Please let me know if you have any queries.

Take care

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