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Skin Tags- what are they??
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Does anyone know what causes skin tags? Does anyone know how to get rid of them?All comments gratefully received!
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Hi there
I don't know what causes them but my OH had several removed last night at a local beauty salon for £35. I'm not sure exactly what they did to be honest! I just know he has several black bits now where the skin tags where and they will drop off.
A friend of mine had one and said that she went to the GP who froze it off for her.
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Doctors advice from BBC website
If you ask your grandmother how she would remove them she'll probably tell you to tie a hair or some thread around the bottom of the skin tag. This cuts off its blood supply so it dies.
Your doctor, however, will either freeze it with liquid nitrogen or remove it with a heated element device called electrocautery. This uses a very hot but very small blade to cut off the skin tag sealing the blood vessel at the same time to stop it bleeding. Both these methods can be done in the doctor's surgery and take just a few minutes.
I had one in the groin area that became a nuisance. It took a couple of freeze jobs to clear it, on the second attempt the Dr doing it said if it doesn't drop off this time I should tie it with a hair.My weight loss following Doktor Dahlqvist' Dietary Program
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I had 2 removed at my GP's surgery on Friday. She injected a local anaesthetic and cut them off. The skin looks fine now.
If you have small ones you can often get them off by spitting on your fingers and twiddling them around until the blood supply is cut off. It's one of Granny's remedys but it does work.0 -
I had one about five years ago and when I showed my doctor she wouldn't do anything about it. In the end I had to pay a private doctor to remove it. I'm pretty annoyed now that I know that doctors do it for you.:smileyhea "here, hare, here" :smileyhea0
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Does anyone know what causes skin tags? Does anyone know how to get rid of them?All comments gratefully received!
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The doctor told me it's a type of skin virus. I had one under my arm and it wasn't very big but just irritating as it rubbed on clothing and underwear etc. I showed it the doctor and she used the electro method.
The most important thing for me was that it was totally painless and very quick. So if you have one or several, I would definitely go to your GP and get them sorted.
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I have two on my face and have been to the doctor's today to see if they will remove them. Apparently as they are on my face, I need a referral to the dermatology dept at the hospital. If they were anywhere else on my body, could have had them done at the doctors today.0
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Ted_Hutchinson wrote: »Doctors advice from BBC website
If you ask your grandmother how she would remove them she'll probably tell you to tie a hair or some thread around the bottom of the skin tag. This cuts off its blood supply so it dies.
Your doctor, however, will either freeze it with liquid nitrogen or remove it with a heated element device called electrocautery. This uses a very hot but very small blade to cut off the skin tag sealing the blood vessel at the same time to stop it bleeding. Both these methods can be done in the doctor's surgery and take just a few minutes.
I had one in the groin area that became a nuisance. It took a couple of freeze jobs to clear it, on the second attempt the Dr doing it said if it doesn't drop off this time I should tie it with a hair.
Ha HA HA is that just not amazing Ted if the medical estooblishment lets you down then use an Old Wives Tale..probably without scarring too!? :rotfl:Are U getting enough Vitamin D in your life!?0 -
Liquid nitrogen - that's the same treatment as for veruccas isn't it?
You may find, as someone just said, that your GP will refuse to do anything, regarding it as trivial. Its not the same scenario exactly, but DD recently had a verucca so I rang the doctors as I thought I remembered they had a 'wart clinic' and would freeze it off for her. The receptionist said they had suspended the clinic because it was too busy!!, I would have to buy something over the counter and do it myself.
I thought this was a bit rubbish, really. What do we pay our flipping taxes for eh?0 -
I had a skin tag under my arm - I applied a ligature (made from a piece of cotton tied on tightly), the blood supply stopped and the tag dropped off in less than a week.0
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I have a lot of skintags - armpits, collar bone, neck, rib cage. I just ignore them; I think they're an age thing.0
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