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[music] Hello, I’m Dr. Neal Schultz
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and welcome to DermTV.
Skin tags are harmless and painless little extra pieces of skin that stick
up from your skin. It’s live skin, but these little extra pieces of skin
are taller than they are wide, so they just sort of stick up like a finger.
Actually, skin tags are the subject of the folkloric home remedies where
people tie a string around a growth and gradually tighten the string until
the growth falls off. In reality, most skin tags are much too small to be
able to have the string stay on and, if the string does stay on, the skin
tag is probably large enough, so that, as you tighten it, it actually would
hurt. Skin tags most commonly occur where the skin folds against other
places like the neck, under the arms, between the legs, and also under the
*** in women. They’re harmless; they’re painless. If the skin tags
don’t bother you, there’s no reason to remove them, but a lot of people
find them to be itching and just play with them as a matter of habit, or
they don’t like the way they look. Believe it or not, the way skin tags are
removed is by actually having them snipped off by your dermatologist with a
little scissor. Even that is painless. There’s no bleeding and, within a
day, it’s healed. So if you don’t like your skin tags, there's no reason to
keep them. See your dermatologist for very easy and fun removal.