Warts

[yellowetpink]

Okay, well I have always had warts (for as long as I can remember) but now I am a bit self concious of them, I don't want to hold hands with anyone incase it like freaked them out! I have about 12 on my hands, all different sizes, I have up to 3 on one finger!! They are not contagious but I really don't like them! Does anyone know of anything to help get rid of them?

I have heard that taping a small slice of garlic onto it and leaving it for a while helps, but it is so smelly!

If you know of anything could you please tell me?

 

[castingcrowns]

go to the dermatologist!! they know how to get rid of them. maybe they have medicine or something to help prevent them?

 

[yellowetpink]

I went to the doctor and he sprayed liquid nitrogen on them and told me they will go down, but they haven't! It is really annoying! It sounds more grose then it actually is though!

Thank you though, I will probably book an apointment with the dermo anyway!

 

[castingcrowns]

I have one on my toe and thats what my doctor did as well. I think that you have to have it done more than once to get the wart completely gone.

 

[sable]

wartner

hey,
I've got no experience myself but my mom swears by Wartner, a kind of freezing device to destroy the wart....
hope that helps, but I've got no idea if it's available everywhere in the UK

www.mistrys.co.uk

 

[redambition2]

ive had mine frozen off too and it doesnt work! i wonder if anyone has like homemade way to get rid of them

 

[Suburban Snob]

I've heard that duct tape applied to the wart works. Something about the duct tape glue irratating the surrounding skin 'kills off' the wart.

You just use duct tape over the wart and surrounding skin and change it every other day. It's supposed to help in like 2 weeks time.

 

[kezme44]

warts are caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV), and they ARE contagious. none of those suggestions will help. they are good for warts on your soles but NOT on your fingers or the rest of your body. you'll need a prescription medication, possibly something with high dose salicylic acid. most warts are self-limiting and will go away themselves, but takes a very long time (1-15 years)

 

[Guessgirl96]

My dermo told me warts arent contagious and theres nothing realy that will make them go away. You basically just have to wait it out. Liquid nitro and salacilic acid may help but often dont work. Some people believe the duct tape works but theres no real evidence proving either way.

 

[yellowetpink]

Oh great 1-15 years! I am 14! lol! Anyway thanks for the help, I will try the duct tape one though!

 

[DandyWarhol]

lol.

this thread makes me laugh.


i dont know why/.

 

[spierce]

Go to the derm, he can ice them off but regularly you have to go several times before they're gone. Honestly, warts go away on their own sometimes so people probably just coincidently put on garlic at the same time, I wouldn't waste my stuff on that or duct tape. It'll probably just irritate your warts and they'll look grosser than ever.

 

[kwikspell]

I used to have a lot of warts on the bottom of my foot and on my knees and I tried about a dozen different things, including freezing them and getting this very specific South American beetle juice put on them (Owww, that one stung!) but what eventually cured them for me was this product called Soluver. You had to soak the wart in water, then scrub it with a pumice stone, then apply this liquid which formed a sort of white bubble on it. It got rid of all of them for me.

 

[yellowetpink]

lol.

this thread makes me laugh.


i dont know why/.

Thanks J
Me and my grose out fingers

 

[yellowetpink]

Beetle juice ? Like what you would get if you squeezed a beetle?

 

[kwikspell]

It was something extracted from some very specific type of beetle from somewhere in South America but it didn't do anything to get rid of the warts, so that was a waste. In the end it was the Soluver that got rid of them. And fortunately it's pretty cheap, too.

 

[yellowetpink]

Thanks

 

[Priestess]

Ewww, I hate warts. I've had a few in my lifetime. I had plantars warts on the bottom of my feet. I shaved those off and they died away. I had a wart on the back of my finger that my doctor burnt with a laser thingy. And I had another wart on my thumb. When I had a severe case of chicken pox I got a pock underneath the thumb wart. The wart died off and didn't even leave a scar. Best removal method ever. Of course it's rather inconvenient.

 

[yellowetpink]

Haha! I've had chicken pox though! grr!

 

[Eurasian Mélange]

I have verrucas. I used to have millions on my feet because my mum let the neighbours' kids come into our paddling pool. I then tried salicylic acid treatments and it did not work. I tried the Wartner (you can buy it in the UK, too) and it worked on several, but others were too stubborn. Eventually I went to the doctor and had them frozen off professionally with liquid nitrogen. They were gone for a while, but because my mum was too scared to get hers treated I caught them yet again! So now I am trying Wartner again else I have to pay $100 to see a doctor because I don't yet have permanent residence here in Canada. I hope it works because this one verruca that I caught from her is starting to hurt and suddenly, after two years, it is spreading and I have two new ones.

My mum used to have warts on her hands, but once she went into a shop and the guy at the counter held her hands and chanted something, then said they would go away. She didn't believe him (and, knowing her, probably just laughed at him), but they suddenly disappeared over the next few days. Obviously, you cannot do that, but I have heard that for skin tags doctors wrap thread around the base and leave it there for several days. Eventually, the blood supply stops and the skin tag falls off. Perhaps you can ask to have this done to your warts?