They are best described as bits of skin-colored or flesh-colored tissue projecting from the surrounding skin tags from a small, narrow stalk. These benign growths are also referred to as skin tabs or even barnacles.
Medically speaking, they’re known by several different names as well. Your dermatologist refers to them as acrochordons, Pappilomas, soft fibromas or even pedunculated filiform. This last term indicates that the growth is really on a stalk and is threadlike.
Actually quite harmless in nature, these tags seem to accumulate more on some individuals than others. Women are just as likely to get these as men and some people may have as many as 50 to 100 tags on their body. What causes this growth isn’t really clear.
It appears that it may have something to do with the friction created by the act of rubbing parts of the body together or tight clothes rubbing certain areas of the body. That’s why sometimes gaining weight may cause the growth of tags. In some individuals, even a moderate increase in weight can trigger a dramatic increase in these growths.
Then again, some individuals have an abundance of these solely due to genetics.
Your dermatologist can suggest some conventional treatments for the removal of these skin tags. However, natural home remedies will work just as well to rid your skin of these pesky afflictions.