How can Skin Tags be removed?
In the United States, most medical insurance companies
have stopped paying for the removal of skin
tags. They consider their removal to be merely
for cosmetic reasons or in the medically unnecessary
category. So the costs of skin tag treatment, in the
form of removal, have to be taken into consideration
when weighing up the options.
In medical terms, skin tags are
described as:
- Acrochordons
- Papillomas
- Soft firbromas
- Pedunculated (this means they are on a stalk)
- Filiform (this means they are thread-like)
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Skin Tags.
In our grandmothers' time, they would remove
them by tying a hair or some thread around the base
of the skin tag. When the hair or thread was tied
round the stalk, the blood supply was cut off so that
the skin tags would die and drop off. This is a very
old fashioned skin tag treatment and although effective,
this can often be painful especially in delicate areas.
You might try removing
skin tags yourself by snipping them off with a
pair of scissors. However, this is considered a
very risky procedure because of the chance of
infection and excessive bleeding. Also, you might
have mistaken the skin tag for some other skin growth
such as a mole or a hemagioma and these should definitely
not be removed by you at home in such a way.
Nowadays these skin tags are often removed for cosmetic reasons by your doctor or dermatologist using the following methods:
- Electrocautery where a very hot but very small blade is used to cut off the skin tag while sealing the blood vessel at the same time to stop any bleeding.
- Surgical excision - by cutting.
Another skin tag treatment is to use a natural
formula. This natural formula is applied directly
onto the skin tag and it draws the skin tag out from
the root upwards. There is no burning or skin irritation
and therefore no pain.
Although the healing process varies from person to person, it would only take a maximum of a few weeks and the important end result would be no scarring and no return of the skin tag.
