Can you clean a dirty pregnancy belly button?

Pregnant belly button is very dirty can clean up, pay attention not to pick the belly button broken. The belly button stump is deeply concave, resulting in stains remaining, if not cleaned in time is easy to breed bacteria induced infections, etc., need to be cleaned in time. Cleaning navel stains is relatively simple, but must pay attention to the action gently, to avoid causing skin damage, pain, infection, bleeding and so on. It is recommended to use a cotton swab dipped in a little shower gel or soap into the umbilical cord depression area, gently rotate in a clockwise direction, the umbilical cord depression within the stains cleaned out, and then use warm water to clean it, you can also wait for the navel to dry naturally with iodine disinfection. Normally, you can’t use your hands to dig the navel, so as not to cause skin breakage and secondary infection and other adverse reactions. If the navel is infected after pregnancy, you need to go to the hospital in time.