Having Meat Grow, Here's What You Need to Know

Although it doesn't cause pain or itching, having meat growing on the skin can interfere with your appearance. Meat is not dangerous to grow. However, these lumps can become irritated and become painful if rubbing against your own clothes, jewelry, or skin. Everyone can have meat growing. However, meat growth generally occurs in adults, the elderly, and also people who are obese or diabetic.

Meat Is Harmless To Grow

In medical language, growing flesh is called acrochordon (skin tag). These lumps usually grow with a small size, which is about 2-5 millimeters, and can be enlarged. Growing flesh can appear anywhere on the body, such as the armpits, thighs, eyelids, neck, chest, under the breast, and also under the folds of the buttocks. However, it more often grows in the armpit and neck area. Growing flesh is formed from a network of collagen fibers that have relaxed and blood vessels surrounded by the skin. The formation of growing flesh is thought to be triggered by frequent skin friction with certain clothing or body parts. Generally, growing meat has a color similar to the color of your skin. However, this part can be darker in color. Although often thought to be similar to warts, meat grows differently. Warts tend to have a somewhat coarse texture, while growing flesh does not. In addition, meat grows like a lump, whereas warts do not. Not only that, warts are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), whereas the cause of growing meat is not yet known with certainty, but genetic or hereditary factors are thought to play a role.

Growing Meat Can Be Eliminated

Actually, growing meat does not require special care. Growing flesh can disappear on its own, if the tissues lack blood supply and die. But if you feel uncomfortable and disturbed, you can eliminate it. Meat that grows very small, usually will disappear by itself. But if it's bigger, you need the help of a dermatologist to get rid of it. Here are some ways to eliminate growing meat that you need to know, including:

• Electric surgery, by burning the tissue in growing flesh using high-frequency electrical energy.
• Ligation, with surgical sutures to cut off the flow of blood to the growing flesh tissue.
• Cryotherapy or frozen therapy, by freezing growing flesh using liquid nitrogen.
• Surgical removal, by cutting the growing flesh using scissors or a scalpel.

Growing meat is not contagious, and there is no research that states that eliminating growing meat can increase its growth. However, growing meat can indeed reappear, even though it has been removed in a number of ways above. You are advised not to get rid of self-grown meat without the help of a doctor, because it can cause injury, bleeding, and infection. Until now there are no medicines or independent handling methods at home that have proven effective in removing growing flesh. If you have meat growing, do not hesitate to consult a doctor.