Q: I am an adult woman, and I have an umbilical hernia. I want to decrease the amount of belly fat that I have. What kinds of exercises are safe to do when you have an umbilical hernia? A: A hernia is ...

Dear Doctors: I am an adult woman, and I have an umbilical hernia. I want to decrease the amount of belly fat that I have. What kinds of exercises are safe to do when you have an umbilical hernia?

HOUSTON -- A woman was forced to ask her doctor an unimaginable question: where's my belly button? "I went in with the belly button and I'd like to know what you did with it? What happened to it? Did ...

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Dear Doctors: I am an adult woman, and I have an umbilical hernia. I want to decrease the amount of belly fat that I have. What kinds of exercises are safe to do when you have an umbilical hernia?

HOUSTON -- A Houston woman was forced to ask her doctor an unimaginable question -- where's my belly button? "I went in with the belly button and I'd like to know what you did with it? What happened ...

Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and associate professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health.