Treating Skin Tags
A cutaneous skin tag or, if you're the scientific type, achrocordon is a type of benign tumor usually found on the body where the skin creases.
The neck, eyelids, armpits and lateral groin are the most common spots for skin tags to appear.
While skin tags are entirely harmless and almost always painless, many consider these growths, which are usually around the size of a grain of rice, unattractive and disfiguring.
Skin tags may be smooth or irregular in texture, and in some cases they are raised from the surface of the skin by a stalk known as a peduncle.
The growth itself is composed of a fibro-vascular core sometimes accompanied by fat cells and covered by what is known as an "unremarkable" epidermis.
Although they usually do not grow or change over time, irritation caused by shaving, epilation, or contact with clothing or jewelry may cause an alteration in its color or shape.
In rare instances, an unusually large skin tag may burst after a build-up of pressure.
It is believed that skin tags are caused when the outer layer of skin grows at an excessive speed.
As with many similar conditions, they appear more commonly in those over the age of thirty, and more often in women than in men.
So what can you do if you get a skin tag? Well, many people simply leave them alone.
If yours appears in an inconspicuous spot where it is unlikely to be caught in clothing, you may simply want to ignore it.
Achrocorda cannot become cancerous and rarely grow longer than a couple of millimeters, and consequently you may wish not to go to the trouble of treating it.
If you do wish to remove your fibroepithelial polyp (another name for these little growths), however, there are a number of products available, and you can consult the section at the end of this article to find out more about such treatments.
These will need to be applied daily to the site of the achrocordon, and usually a course of treatment between a week and a month will be necessary to completely remove the growth.
Some opt to freeze the growth with liquid nitrogen.
Your dermatologist will apply the liquid nitrogen using a device called a hemostat, and thereafter the tag should fall off within seven to ten days.
If the growth is sufficiently prominent, you can also tie a piece of dental floss around it.
Doing so will cut off the blood supply, and this will usually cause it to fall off within a couple of days.
The neck, eyelids, armpits and lateral groin are the most common spots for skin tags to appear.
While skin tags are entirely harmless and almost always painless, many consider these growths, which are usually around the size of a grain of rice, unattractive and disfiguring.
Skin tags may be smooth or irregular in texture, and in some cases they are raised from the surface of the skin by a stalk known as a peduncle.
The growth itself is composed of a fibro-vascular core sometimes accompanied by fat cells and covered by what is known as an "unremarkable" epidermis.
Although they usually do not grow or change over time, irritation caused by shaving, epilation, or contact with clothing or jewelry may cause an alteration in its color or shape.
In rare instances, an unusually large skin tag may burst after a build-up of pressure.
It is believed that skin tags are caused when the outer layer of skin grows at an excessive speed.
As with many similar conditions, they appear more commonly in those over the age of thirty, and more often in women than in men.
So what can you do if you get a skin tag? Well, many people simply leave them alone.
If yours appears in an inconspicuous spot where it is unlikely to be caught in clothing, you may simply want to ignore it.
Achrocorda cannot become cancerous and rarely grow longer than a couple of millimeters, and consequently you may wish not to go to the trouble of treating it.
If you do wish to remove your fibroepithelial polyp (another name for these little growths), however, there are a number of products available, and you can consult the section at the end of this article to find out more about such treatments.
These will need to be applied daily to the site of the achrocordon, and usually a course of treatment between a week and a month will be necessary to completely remove the growth.
Some opt to freeze the growth with liquid nitrogen.
Your dermatologist will apply the liquid nitrogen using a device called a hemostat, and thereafter the tag should fall off within seven to ten days.
If the growth is sufficiently prominent, you can also tie a piece of dental floss around it.
Doing so will cut off the blood supply, and this will usually cause it to fall off within a couple of days.
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