Tag: skin conditions
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Skin Tags – What Are They? Causes and Treatments
Many people confuse skin tags with cancerous growths and feel panic when seeing them. In reality, skin tags have nothing to do with cancer and they’re absolutely painless. Being attached to the skin by a peduncle, which looks like a small, thin stalk, skin tags can pop up anywhere on the body. Both women and…
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Vitiligo: Types, Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
The condition where melanocytes – the cells that form the skin’s pigment – are destroyed is called vitiligo. The white blotchy patches are the most obvious sign of vitiligo, albeit there are many other symptoms to watch out for. Although vitiligo isn’t a widespread disease, it still affects at least 2 percent of the global…