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A member asked:

Should i try to remove the scaly patches of skin myself?

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No: They will grow back. You need to treat the inflammation underneath initially with external medications such as tazorac, (tazarotene) taclonex, luxiq, dovonex to control problem. Picking can make it worse and will cause bleeding.

Dr Pizzo agreed

Answered 7/20/2012

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