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How to relief tenderness in a scab?
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Keep it clean: Keep it clean and don't pick at it. If it stays, then you need to be checked for an infection or a skin cancer or a foreign body in the skin. Don't let it grow forever, call your doc!
Answered 8/5/2012
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