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nextqueen | 22:14 Mon 09th Jan 2012 | Body & Soul
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is it true that you can tie a piece of cotton around them to make them fall off after a few days? i have a few and hate them.
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aparently so, if you want pieces of cotton hanging off your skin. A doctor may freeze them off for you with liquid nitrogen (though I doubt that they rank as very high-priority these days).
Yes, it does work, it only takes a few days. If you tie the cotton really tight, it cuts off ther blood supply to the skin tag.

Better though, if your GP does a minor surgery clinic, they can just clip them off.
If you mean small long warts, then yes it's true, my mother had some, and she did tie cotton around the bottom of them, and they did fall off.......
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if frozen off, does it leave a scar. So how long do you leave the cotton on for?
yes its true.
My sister had a wart on her top eye lid throughout her teens, and when she got married, her husband carefully and tightly tied cotton round it and after a week (?) the wart fell off. No problem at all
I must admit to cutting a couple off myself with very sharp scissors where the neck was very narrow - it bled a short while, then was fine after that.
Just slice them off with a razor.
I had some on my neck frozen off - no scars!
oh ouch!
How can you walk around with a piece of cotton hanging off your face ?
It only ouched for a minute - it hurt more last weekend, when OH was trying to get a splinter out of the sole of my foot!
Now this self mutilation all sounds jolly clean and sterile.

Kitchen carving knife - perhaps even a filleting knife proffered by chance?
nitrogen used on me.....eyes, inner thighs and chest side but it was the USA...
could never do the razor thing, would stick with the cotton personally nextqueeen!...........
The idea of the cotton nq is to stop the blood supply getting to it, it will die & drop off, I suppose it all depends how big it is how long it takes.
If you've got some cat-gut thats best thats what our Doc used on several my H had on his back.

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I use tea tree oil, a few drops on a cotton bud dabbed on three times a day.
I had the nurse at my GP practises tie one round mine a few months ago. It hurt like he'll when she was doing it but it fell off after a few weeks.
OK if you don't like the idea of a razor there are loads of ideas on my link much better than walking round with a piece of string hanging down. Vit E cream, Tea Tree Oil, Duct tape, take your pick.
http://www.squidoo.co...safely-and-painlessly

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