Skin tags, removing them at home

pandagirl

If you are worried then seek proper medical advice.

If not I snipped mine off with a pair of nail clippers. It was v.v.small but it bled like crazy, so be prepared. Felt good to get rid of it though.

If you do get rid of it, make sure that you keep it really clean as you don't want it getting infected.

libragrrrl

are you absolutely sure that it is a skin tag? i used dental floss to tie off a skin tag on my husband's underarm and within a couple of days, it turned bluish black, and we were able to just pull it off with no problem. you need to completely cut off the blood supply to it so it dies. the way you describe it though, it does sound a little scary. i would definitely seek medical attention...somehow.

RebelRocker

[QUOTE=libragrrrl]are you absolutely sure that it is a skin tag? i used dental floss to tie off a skin tag on my husband's underarm and within a couple of days, it turned bluish black, and we were able to just pull it off with no problem. you need to completely cut off the blood supply to it so it dies. the way you describe it though, it does sound a little scary. i would definitely seek medical attention...somehow.[/QUOTE]

My dad has a lot of skin tags, and he just removes them by hand.

How about these little red dots. My dad calls them "head lights" but they look like bright red raised dots. I have a couple on my chest... i suppose the only way to remove them would be laser survey, which isn't my bag of potatos.

Jasmine21

What I have is definently a skin tag. I think when I tied thread around it I must
not of tied it tight enough. A day or two ago it turned black and I cut it off with
some scissors. The skin tag now looks like a small bump. I'm hoping it will
dissapear.

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Lochnessie

I had one of those on my eyelid when I was a little girl. It interfered with my eyesight, so I got it removed by a dr.

Denise98

I am plagued with skin tags ever since I was a teen my mom would make me go to the dermatologist to have them removed and he would just snip them off and send them away to be examined.. As I got older I decided Im not paying him for a painless little thing I can do at home so I just get manicure scissors make sure there clean and snip it off you have to get really close so you dont have that small bump left over like you said.. let it heal a little and see if you can get a closer snip its nothing to worry about..

orangecrate

My Dr. said once that if you have a lot of skin tags be sure to keep a check on your colon for polyps. I guess they are not serious but should be removed too.

aerdna

Man, I had one next to my eyebrow. God it was ugly. It got bigger, and bigger, until it just simply.. fell off.