Freezer sprays?

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

No frostbite, I was only trying to see if a resistor drifted, doctor... Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

The way an old doctor removed warts from people was to tie a tight bit of catgut around the base and in a few days they fell off. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

I think there are laws about biological materials and packaging. Brian

[michael adams]

I was more concerned with the possibility of the skin tag surviving, and the rest of you dropping off.

michael adams

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[Andy Burns]

practice your surgical knots

[fred]

ime those skin tags fall off themselves evenyually

[Max Demian]

Tie a cotton thread around the base and it should drop off. (Never done it.)

[Bob Eager]

As I noted upthread, this does work. GP did it for me.

[tim...]

well the medical freezer spray sprayed on me certainly was not designed to avoid pain

anything but!

[tim...]

though that's not a reason

a "frozen" off one can't be analysed

it needs to be "surgically" removed

[alan_m]

One thing you should avoid is spraying the contents of any can of electrical/plumbing freezer spray directly on to your skin. These cans are designed to take a fairly large area/volume down to below the freezing point of water/blood rapidly.

Use an intermediate method such as freezing the end of a cotton bud and then applying that to a small area to be treated.

[PeterC]

I've had it my bottom lip - that's a sensitive area. Even a local in the lip really needs a local!

[PeterC]

I'm tempted by this method but for one thing: I need the procedure to leave no protrusion at all, otherwise it'll be prone to catching on my shirt and could be worse than the tag. I know, AG!

[Tim+]

I doubt very much that you would be left with a ?stalk? unless your tag has a particularly long ?neck? and you don?t tie the knot close to the skin. Certainly never heard of it happening or seen a stalk.

Even if in the unlikely event that you did have one, dabbing the stalk with freezing agent would kill it off.

Tim

[Andy Burns]

My GP did a couple of mine, surgical thread rather than cotton and the knots were "stingingly" tight, AIRI he wasn't just pulling a couple of inches of thread with his fingers, but a couple of feet with his arms.

[alan_m]

All the methods suggested are to kill the blood supply to the tag. I used the freezer method repeatedly dabbling the tag(s) with the frozen cotton bud until I felt the tag go really solid and then a few more dabs with the cotton bud for good luck. Quickly refresh the cotton bud with more freezer for each application. The tag(s) fell off within a week leaving a (2mm) little scab which healed within the week. No bumps were left after treatment.

[nothanks]

Why not just use a scalpel, as I suggested earlier? I do this and it's quick, fairly painless, and bleeding isn't a problem (I take Clopidogrel). Put a small circular plaster over the site for a day or so, with some Savlon on it.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Did it yesterday evening - good soak of a 'sponge bud' from the freezer spray, held bud down for 10 seconds, then bud down onto the tag.

I had cut it off several times before, but it was regrowing quite rapidly - hence wondering about trying freezer spray. After the freezer spray yesterday, it now appears to be shrinking, certainly not regrowing.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

alan_m formulated the question :

That is what I did.

[Andy Burns]

My dentist seems to be up and running again, a cancelled appointment for an extraction from March is now re-booked for next week.