Skin Tags

What is it?

These are not warts and are flesh or brown coloured, they occur for where the skin rubs on itself.

Cause

Diabetes
Older people
Pregnant
Inflammatory bowel disease:
Where skin rubs against skin or clothing.
Overweight people who have excess folds of skin and skin chafing.
Younger children who have excess folds of skin and skin chafing.
Agenesis of corpus callosum (tags in front of ears)

Syndromes

Branchiootorenal syndrome (pits or ear tags in front of the outer ear)
Cat eye syndrome
Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (Gorlin syndrome or Gorlin-Goltz syndrome)
Oculocerebrocutaneous syndrome (with brown skin tags around eyes)
Tethered cord syndrome
Wildervanck syndrome
- Abnormal union or fusion of two or more bones of the spinal column (vertebrae) within the neck (Klippel-Feil syndrome)
- Impairment or absence of certain eye (ocular) movements (Duane syndrome)
- Hearing impairment

Source: Natural Living Ideas

Source: Dr. Peter Vignjevic

Symptoms

Flesh or brown coloured?
Skin feels like a ball?
Skin feels attached to the skin?
Painless?

Complications /Information to beware of/General tips:

General tips

Do not attempt to cut of a skintag, as it can increase the risk of a skin infection.
A skin tag should be cut of in a healthcare professional setting if other medical or natural methods have failed and can be sent of for testing (to make sure it is not anything else).
Look at the links/sources below and i.e. SingleCare and look for ‘Remove a skintag’ .

Please talk to your healthcare professional (i.e. Medical Doctor/Pharmacist) for further advice

Detailed Information

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