Compound W should be easy to find, but I have used a generic brand too. Look for something that provides a shield to cover your healthy skin (although they are just a piece of plastic with a slit so would probably be easy enough to make). Results have been pretty good but I'm not looking for perfection. I have to admit I've used it on keratosis more often than on skin tags, it is much more convenient- and cheaper - than trotting off to the doctor for essentially the same treatment.
Hm, I've been searching and have only found wart remover advertised in the USA, perhaps you don't have it there? But they are really the same product, just with a smaller applicator.
(A further edit, I'm talking about the freeze away products, not the liquids or gels.)
Now I am Not recommending this treatment to anyone in particular, but being as I worked as a Medical Assistant for many years in the primary setting, and then worked as a Surgical Tech in the Dermatology setting, the liquid nitrogen works pretty good for skin tags, but I have a tried and true method, for those who are good with their hands (like I am, Lol!), and was a method frequently used in the Dermatology office.
For ONLY those Very Small Types of Skin Tags, the rolly/fleshy ones, I take a small curved scissors and tweezers (sterilized in boiling water), and also an antiseptic stick, like the ones that Men use when the cut themselves shaving (get one in the shaving aisle), and you simply pick up the skin tag with the tweezers, and snip it off with the scissors, then dab dab dab with the STYPTIC stick or pencil to cauterize any bleeding, the stick has a cauterizing agent (ALUM) in it, to stop any minimal bleeding that might have started. If there is any continual bleeding, apply direct pressure until it stops. Then apply a band-aid and dab of antibiotic ointment. It only hurts for a second! But again, this is how I do it to myself, as I don't treat other people, wink wink!
And remember, only those Tiny fleshy skin tags. This method works great for me, to catch them before they grow bigger, Otherwise you need to see your Dr for treatment!
Stacey's method sound much like what my gyn told me to do- these are just big enough for me to slip my nail under- to pinch them off! I have not had any problems letting one get bigger since then.
I have to admit I am a wimp, I tried snipping a tiny skin tag with some very sharp scissors but wasn't able to follow through, maybe if someone else wielded the scissors? I tried the thread thing too, I just couldn't get the danged knot tight enough to stay on without it being painfully snug. Again, a wimp.
I'm with CW - an utter wimp. If a tag or wart got so big it was worrying or really disfiguring I'd go to my GP, and I wouldn't want any treatment I might know about while it was happening.
In an older person, which the OP might be asking about? - I would expect this procedure to be done under local anaesthetic and be comparatively risk free. Any concerns in particular?
I have to admit I've used it on keratosis more often than on skin tags, it is much more convenient- and cheaper - than trotting off to the doctor for essentially the same treatment.
Hm, I've been searching and have only found wart remover advertised in the USA, perhaps you don't have it there? But they are really the same product, just with a smaller applicator.
(A further edit, I'm talking about the freeze away products, not the liquids or gels.)
For ONLY those Very Small Types of Skin Tags, the rolly/fleshy ones, I take a small curved scissors and tweezers (sterilized in boiling water), and also an antiseptic stick, like the ones that Men use when the cut themselves shaving (get one in the shaving aisle), and you simply pick up the skin tag with the tweezers, and snip it off with the scissors, then dab dab dab with the STYPTIC stick or pencil to cauterize any bleeding, the stick has a cauterizing agent (ALUM) in it, to stop any minimal bleeding that might have started. If there is any continual bleeding, apply direct pressure until it stops. Then apply a band-aid and dab of antibiotic ointment. It only hurts for a second! But again, this is how I do it to myself, as I don't treat other people, wink wink!
And remember, only those Tiny fleshy skin tags. This method works great for me, to catch them before they grow bigger, Otherwise you need to see your Dr for treatment!
I tried the thread thing too, I just couldn't get the danged knot tight enough to stay on without it being painfully snug. Again, a wimp.
In an older person, which the OP might be asking about? - I would expect this procedure to be done under local anaesthetic and be comparatively risk free. Any concerns in particular?
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