It may sound as good news to people who are less than 40 years whenever they hear that stucco keratosis is a noncancerous skin tumor that is common in older adults over forty years. However, each person will at one point or the other reach this age and therefore care should be taken to prevent stucco keratosis. The lesions could be seen on the lower parts of an individual’s legs and may appear like paint splatters on the surface of the skin. The blemishes are either gray or pale brown in color. There are numerous methods and agents that can be used to treat or remove the stucco lumps.

In case you prefer that the lesion should be scraped off your skin, it will be wise to consult your dermatologist so that he/she helps you remove the stucco keratosis. Any attempt to have it removed by a person other than a skin professional poses the risk of bleeding or scarring. Do not take chances with your skin. Some people are spending thousands of dollars trying to resuscitate their skins after they tried to handle skin disorders on their own. Do you want to join the statistics? Certainly not. The procedure might look very easy yet it requires utmost caution.

Another method that is increasingly soaring in popularity is stucco keratosis removal with the assistance of liquid oxygen. The lesions are frozen in order to kill the affected cells of one’s skin and prevent their continued growth or spread. Once the affected cells are dead, the lump begins to fall off gradually. Some people may decide to scrape off the lump as soon as the lesion dries. However, this is not advisable as trying to forcefully remove the stucco keratosis may cause bleeding. It is better to leave it so that it falls off by itself and the process could be painless as compared to scraping.

Others may choose to use electric current to remove the lesions. A high frequency electric current is allowed onto the lump using a needle-shaped electrode in order to destroy the tissue by drying it. This process is known as electro-desiccation.  Once the stucco keratosis has dried, it can be scraped using curettage or allowed to fall off and this could happen after several days. Nonetheless, care must be taken to ensure that the high frequency electric current does not filter to other layers of the skin or tissues.

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