I don’t have insurance atm so can’t do much so that’s why I’m on here asking. It’s been doing this for years but this is the worst.
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Standard caveat: I'm not a doctor, and even if I was, I'm not your doctor, and only an idiot would play doctor online to begin with.
Well, you can look up details for how to do it, but you need to start excluding what could be causing so that you can maybe prevent it.
Just off of one picture, nobody is going to be 100% able to point to a cause, but the area doesn't look like something that's like psoriasis, nor does it look like an infection. It could be those, but this is a small, compressed image online, and that's the best you can really get.
Since the most common cause of that kind of irritation is contact with an irritant/allergen, you gotta try to figure out what it is. In the navel, I'd start excluding soaps, conditioner, lotions and the like. Then maybe move to laundry detergents. Again, you can look up the process for doing so, and it'll likely be better written than me trying to explain it.
If you do that, and can't find a culprit, start saving up for the visit and tests.
Yeah I’ve looked up some things on my own as I’m relatively good at least getting a general picture on things but this meets almost no description of anything I’ve read about. The main symptoms include, surface level bleeding, wounds similar and scabbing around the skin. There’s no really different smell than what I’ve been used to it. No discharge, doesn’t itch or hurt on its own. Like of course if you mess with it. It can but otherwise no pain. Also for sure I’m hopping to be able to get a 217 health insurance plan from Blue Cross. That shit gonna cover everything lol.
It looks like contact dermatitis, and likely from an allergen or irritant.
Last few times I saw something similar, it was from chemicals getting onto clothing and then irritating the skin underneath.