Diathermy & Cryotherapy Contraindications Within the consultation prior to any treatment we will discuss all medical past and present that may affect you having treatment or may mean we need doctors consent. Although the majority of patients I see are absolutely fine to go ahead with treatment. Some contraindications mean we absolutely cannot treat, others mean we just need to proceed with caution and others mean we need doctors consent to treat.  There are more contraindications/restrictions for diathermy than there are for Cryotherapy. Diathermy uses an electrical current to create a heat to the tip of a fine needle which in turn cauterises the blemish. Cryotherapy uses high pressure nitrous

CryoPen – Cryotherapy is an incredibly popular medical treatment here at Amy Gordon. This advanced cryotherapy innovation delivers an ultra-cold jet of high-pressure N₂O directly onto skin lesions freezing the area and killing the unwanted skin cells of the blemish. Cryotherapy can be used on a wide number of blemishes from warts, verrucas and sun spots/liver spots to skin tags and cherry angiomas (blood spots). The CryoPen delivers pinpoint accuracy when treating blemished meaning both small and large blemishes can be treated. So if you are one of many who find yourself googling ‘get rid of wart overnight’, ‘get rid of mole overnight’, or even how to get rid of

Can I remove Skin Tags myself? Skin Tags are a vascular blemish which means they have a blood supply and they can also on occasion have nerves. This means when attempting to remove yourself via the means of scissors or some other methods it can result in heavy bleeding and the potential of infection. There are many ways I have seen in which to remove a skin tag using ‘at home’ methods. Quite honestly they all horrify me, from kits you can buy online to just home attempts such as tying string around them. Believe it or not I have actually had a client visit me with string embedded into