Most often, skin tags choose to appear in parts of the body that are visible, such as the neck and also on the underarm area. It is also noticeable how ladies get skin tags in their upper chests and also in the folds of their groins and butts. Skin tags can also appear in their eyelids. There is no specific age when you can get skin tags. However, it is during adulthood that they become most pronounced and prolific. From the time you hit the thirties and then well to your sixties, you can expect to be facing the risk of having skin tags. During pregnancy, the woman’s hormonal levels would fluctuate. These increases would result to skin tags being more prevalent in them. Skin tags which are very common among the healthy people needed to be treated very carefully. Healthy people having skin tags need not be a cause for concern. In fact they can opt not to have them removed. Rest assured, the removal of skin tags will not encourage more and further growth of other skin tags. Skin tags may grow periodically in some people and removing them may not cause further spread.
Skin tags will not cause any physical irritation or discomfort. The only discomfort one would have would be something to do with how unsightly they look. Skin tag removal is resorted to by people for the simple reason that they are ugly. When skin tags become irritated, red from bleeding (hemorrhage) or black from twisting and causes death to skin tissues, they needed to be removed. There could be times when pets accidentally scratch on the skin tags and thereby cause irritation. Rough clothing could also bring about this same reaction. In these instances, care should be taken, and the person should observe certain precautions. These skin tags are very gentle in growth and never cause any further cancer or malignant potential. If blood flow to the skin tag becomes interrupted, the tag may simply fall off by itself. Blood flow could be cut off it the tag’s stalk becomes twisted.
It is also important that skin tags are not very harmful and grow potentially in middle aged people. There are a lot of medical treatments for skin tags nowadays, although it is not strictly required to go through medical channels to deal with these skin growths. Some of these medical options include freezing (using liquid nitrogen), cauterization (the process of burning), tying off the tags (with a string), or excision (cutting them off with or without administering anesthesia beforehand.
These small tags can be removed very easily without anesthesia while larger tags need more precautionary measures with some local anesthesia before removing them. Parts of the body with a large concentration of skin tags should be topically applied with anesthesia in the form of creams. There are many skin specialists in the medical field who are most experienced in dealing with this type of skin problem. If you have a skin tag that is very close to your eyes, or right on your eyelid, an eye doctor would have to be consulted.
You can also rely on home remedies to effectively remove your skin tags. Blood flow to the skin tags could be restricted with just a piece of string or dental floss. The skin tag will fall off on its own. Or you could simply get a pair of scissors and cut off the skin tags yourself. However, you should expect some bleeding to take place in this manner. If you choose freezing or burning, you would observe some discoloration of the skin even if the skin tags have fallen off a long time ago.
