What exactly is a skin tag?

what's a skin tag?, how do u get them, are there common places people get them. r u born with them or can they show up later in life?

A skin tag is a common, benign condition which consists of a bit of skin that projects from the surrounding skin and may appear attached to the skin. Skin tags can vary quite a bit in appearance. They may be smooth or irregular, flesh colored or more deeply pigmented, and either simply be raised above the surrounding skin or have a stalk (a peduncle) so that the skin tag hangs from the skin.

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Skin tag: A small tag of skin that may have a stalk (a peduncle). Skin tags may appear on the skin almost anywhere although the favorite locales are the eyelids, neck, armpits (axillae), upper chest, and groin.

Invariably benign, this tiny tumor of the skin usually causes no symptoms unless repeatedly irritated as, for example, by the collar.

Treatment may be done by freezing with liquid nitrogen or by cutting off with a scalpel or scissors if the skin tag is irritating or cosmetically unwanted.

Medically, a skin tag can be termed an acrochordon or a cutaneous papilloma. But it is far better known as a skin tag.

You develop them later in life.

From what I've been told, it's just an extra pinch of skin. I have a friend who had one on her ear and she just went to her doctor and he removed it. She didn't need any pain medicine. Only a topical antibiotic.

they are small excesses of skin, they grow any where

on your body and are harmless, but do not look so great.

Sometimes they fell off by themselves, but a dermatologist

can get rid of them for you, probably for a price, as

insurance will not cover cosmetic surgery. You can get

them at any age.