It was an unremarkable afternoon in the Noughties, and I was working a slow shift at my Saturday job. There I was, behind the tills at Matalan, waiting for my next customer to appear, when I felt it.

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Jasmine, 28, faced a variety of health complications after piercing her belly button over a decade ago and her nipple more recently In an April TikTok video, she recalled running into a "cancer scare" ...

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As a teenager, the coolest thing you could do was to get your belly button pierced. Unfortunately, with a strict Zambian mother, I was forced to skip that edgy phase, and more than a decade on, I find ...

An infected belly button piercing causes swelling, pus, fever, chills, and even an upset stomach. If the belly button piercing is infected keep it in and clean the area with antibacterial soap. To ...