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Birthmarks, Moles, and Warts

Many infants are born with some kind of birthmark or mole somewhere on their bodies. They may appear as a light pinkish spot on the face, neck, or torso, or they may be a coffee-colored mark. Occasionally, a child is born with a deeper red wine-stain birthmark. Unfortunately, many of these wine-stain marks are found on the face or head where sometimes they don’t look very nice.

Some birthmarks are pretty difficult to get rid of, but actually, most of them don’t need to be gotten rid of because they aren’t disfiguring. Birthmarks don’t cause any pain and the ones on covered parts of the body can’t even be seen unless one is undressed.

Many light-colored pink birthmarks II fade out and disappear by themselves before the child is a few months old. Ugly-looking, darker-colored birthmarks on the face can often be removed by a surgeon when the child has grow’ up a bit and is better able to undergo an operation. … continue reading this entry.