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Skin Tag Near Vagina. What Is It?
Hi, I just shaved my bikini line yesterday, and saw this little thing which kind of looked like a skin tag. Today it felt irritated and I just looked at it and now it is a little bigger an looks like its filled with blood. What can I do to make this go away? And do you think it is because I shaved over it that it is like this?
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Fri, 10 May 2013
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Hi,
Thanks for writing to us.
From the description it seems either it was a skin tag or a folliculitis which due to shaving got injured and filled with blood. A skin tag can be excised while a folliculitis heals with oral and topical antibiotics. I would advise that you consult a dermatologist near by so that the lesion can be assessed and treated accordingly.
Hope that helped.
Take care
Thanks for writing to us.
From the description it seems either it was a skin tag or a folliculitis which due to shaving got injured and filled with blood. A skin tag can be excised while a folliculitis heals with oral and topical antibiotics. I would advise that you consult a dermatologist near by so that the lesion can be assessed and treated accordingly.
Hope that helped.
Take care
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