Ah, yes, zits… another one of the usually benign conditions that can blow up overnight into something really spectacular, leading to things like Betadine face-washes and pus-geysers…
Don’t make me link to the TMI thread… [cue scary music …]
Anyhow, home mini-surgery should be approached with extreme caution. Yes, we’ve all done those little teeny minor things. Let’s be careful out there, OK?
Lynn Bodoni wrote:
Ouch!! I tried that ONCE, Lynn, needless to say, I let the Doc take care of 'em.
squirting something on my forehead bothers me none…
but Lynn,
whacking something off…:eek: dont thinks me can do that!!!
Let me clear this up…the skin tags I snip off are the small ones. They haven’t had a chance to grow up and get big and strong. I’ve seen people with collections of skin tags that are quite large, and I wouldn’t snip one off that was larther than a couple of pinheads. When I was younger and more foolish, I DID try to snip off a raised mole, but was never able to complete the action. It HURT. So I won’t hurt myself too much. The little skin tags that I snip off only give off a little sensation of a pinch for a brief moment.
I had a doctor remove that mole and several other raised moles some years back.
I wish I knew the product name, but I recently saw a “freeze” kit in the drugstore (Eckerd), and I believe it had 4-6 applications. Don’t know the contents, but it was an ‘off-the-shelf’ product.