How can skin tags be eliminated?

Want to see your skin free of skin tags?...Want to know how to remove skin tags?

Ligation is one of the easy procedures employed in hospitals in removing skin tags or moles. Here, the stalk of the skin tag will be tied tightly. How will this step do any good? The blood supply in between the stalk of the skin tag and skin will be stemmed. Without blood supply, the skin tag will dry out and eventually fall out. This could take you a while, though. You should not look for results after just a day or two. This process won't be as painful as others, though. This is not recommended to people who have too many skin tags or have skin tags that are quite large in size.

Cryosurgery-as a skin tag removal method.

In cryosurgery, cells are frozen. Cells that reach freezing point will eventually dry out. Then they fall off from the skin automatically. In freezing the skin tags, liquid nitrogen is the freezing agent employed. Mind you, liquid nitrogen is very powerful. It will be able to affect both the skin tag and the surrounding cells and tissues. This also makes it quite an unsafe procedure. For example, when the skin tags are too small, you might be causing more damage to the other tissues or cells that are encompassing the small region of skin tags. If you compare benefits of the freezing procedure to the potential damage it causes, you will end up on the losing end. Because of this, many opt to look for other methods of removing skin tags instead of this one.

How to remove skin tags by just surgically cutting them?

Direct cutting of the skin tag with a scalpel is the method of choice of doctors. This is a very safe procedure and the use of sterilized scalpels and scissors further adds to its safety. Mild bleeding can sometimes be involved after the cut has been made. There could be severe bleeding. Whatever may the case, bleeding needs to be stemmed. You can apply direct pressure on the area or perform cauterization. Doing so will instantly seal the blood vessels and put a stop to the bleeding. The method that is chosen to cut skin tags will purely depend on the location of skin tags as well as the total size of it.

Cancerous ones are treated in a different manner.

After this simple operation, antibiotics must surely be taken. Initially you will not be feeling any kind of pain in the region of cutting. This is due to the fact that you are given a local anesthetic. Generally, the area around the skin tag will be numb. Later on, you can feel a slight stinging sensation in the operated area. But it is tolerable. If you have a very large skin tag, though, you shouldn't choose this method.