Yeast infections can crop up in many places, including your belly button. A belly button yeast infection is a fungal infection that affects the skin around your navel. Belly button yeast ...

Medically reviewed by Casey Gallagher, MD If your belly button smells, it's likely a sign of poor hygiene or an infection.

That's right, you can get a yeast infection in your belly button, which can lead to itching and redness, and cause a clear or off-white discharge to leak out, which almost looks like cottage cheese.