A nurse warns of the dangers of not cleaning the navel: “Hence when…”

The hygiene It is something fundamental in daily life since it is also part of health. However, sometimes some areas of the body are forgotten and can become a source of germs.

In this sense, the TikTok userNurse Jorge Ángel (@enfermerojorgeangel) uploaded a video a couple of years ago pointing out the importance of cleaning one of those areas that can be forgotten: it is the navel.

“It is not only the hygiene of the skin, the vulva or the penis that is important,” he began by pointing out in that video that currently has 40,000 likes.

The dangers of not cleaning your belly button according to a nurse

This professional explains that we must not forget the belly button because “it is an area with many folds where They can accumulate traces of sweat, dead cells, dirt».

He also states that this is why this part of the body “can smell a little strange.” In this video he reacts to another in which a computer recreation of a navel full of dirt is shown.

Although reaching that extreme “is difficult,” Jorge Ángel did remember that lack of hygiene in the navel can lead to a infection called omphalitis: «Yes, it is important in the shower with soap and water clean it a little and then dry it well so that fungi do not form either.

The video also accumulates hundreds of comments from people who confessed that they had never cleaned this area thoroughly, as well as others who claimed that they “didn’t mind” touching it.