skin tags

[nextqueen]

is it true that you can tie a piece of cotton around them to make them fall off after a few days? i have a few and hate them.

[Psybbo]

Will await answers with interest as I feel the same

[jno]

aparently so, if you want pieces of cotton hanging off your skin. A doctor may freeze them off for you with liquid nitrogen (though I doubt that they rank as very high-priority these days).

[boxtops]

Yes, it does work, it only takes a few days. If you tie the cotton really tight, it cuts off ther blood supply to the skin tag.

Better though, if your GP does a minor surgery clinic, they can just clip them off.

[welshlibranr]

If you mean small long warts, then yes it's true, my mother had some, and she did tie cotton around the bottom of them, and they did fall off.......

[nextqueen]

if frozen off, does it leave a scar. So how long do you leave the cotton on for?

[jno]

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[pusskin]

yes its true.
My sister had a wart on her top eye lid throughout her teens, and when she got married, her husband carefully and tightly tied cotton round it and after a week (?) the wart fell off. No problem at all

[boxtops]

I must admit to cutting a couple off myself with very sharp scissors where the neck was very narrow - it bled a short while, then was fine after that.

[ladybirder]

Just slice them off with a razor.

[nungate]

I had some on my neck frozen off - no scars!

[pusskin]

oh ouch!

[smurfchops]

How can you walk around with a piece of cotton hanging off your face ?

[boxtops]

It only ouched for a minute - it hurt more last weekend, when OH was trying to get a splinter out of the sole of my foot!

[DTCwordfan]

Now this self mutilation all sounds jolly clean and sterile.

Kitchen carving knife - perhaps even a filleting knife proffered by chance?

[DTCwordfan]

nitrogen used on me.....eyes, inner thighs and chest side but it was the USA...

[welshlibranr]

could never do the razor thing, would stick with the cotton personally nextqueeen!...........

[Jemisa]

The idea of the cotton nq is to stop the blood supply getting to it, it will die & drop off, I suppose it all depends how big it is how long it takes.
If you've got some cat-gut thats best thats what our Doc used on several my H had on his back.

jem

[treetops1]

I use tea tree oil, a few drops on a cotton bud dabbed on three times a day.

[Zacs-Master]

I had the nurse at my GP practises tie one round mine a few months ago. It hurt like he'll when she was doing it but it fell off after a few weeks.

[ladybirder]

OK if you don't like the idea of a razor there are loads of ideas on my link much better than walking round with a piece of string hanging down. Vit E cream, Tea Tree Oil, Duct tape, take your pick.
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