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Suggest Treatment For Mole On Arm With Redness Around It

I have/had a little mole on my arm and I tend to pick it and I ve got it off once but it would come back as a normal scab but when I least noticed, it was back to a normal mole, now I did the same thing but I picked it more than often and it s red all around it and had like red 3 lines one is aprox. 2 inches, & the other an inch long and it kind of hurts.
posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2014
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Welcome to HCm.
Probably your mole has got infected. Don't worry but sometimes mole changes its shape during transformation to malignancy. I'm not saying that you are having malignant mole but it happens. So please consult a dermatologist & get out of danger.
Good luck.
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Suggest Treatment For Mole On Arm With Redness Around It

Hi Welcome to HCm. Probably your mole has got infected. Don t worry but sometimes mole changes its shape during transformation to malignancy. I m not saying that you are having malignant mole but it happens. So please consult a dermatologist & get out of danger. Good luck.