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Mumsnet Discussions: General health : either my doctor is an experimental genius or he is phsl about my feet (16 messages)
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Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Cappuccino on Mon 12-May-08 12:24:33
he has told me to go and put duct tape on my verrucas

apparently it causes immune reaction and cures them

hmm

it is a bugger trying to get it to stay on
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Pheebe on Mon 12-May-08 12:26:06
wot??? do the hundreds of chiropodists who've built a career on treating veruccas know about this??

Let us know how you get on grin
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By rosealbie on Mon 12-May-08 12:26:14
I thought it was so it wouod stick to the verucca and then eventually pull it out?

My dad says they used to soak their feet in very hot water then apply duct tape and keep doing this until the verucca pulled out. Yuk!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By maretta on Mon 12-May-08 12:26:17
Apparently there was a thing on the radio about painting nail polish over them, which sounds similar.

At least you can choose nail polish to match your outfit.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By BoysAreLikeDogs on Mon 12-May-08 12:26:31
I have heard this before, cappo

Or you could try the banana peel trick.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By MrsBadger on Mon 12-May-08 12:28:06
it is true

you leave it on for a week (replace if it drops off)
then on friday nights you take off the tape, soak foot, file off any dead bits of verruca and replace tape.

takes a month
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By ivykaty44 on Mon 12-May-08 12:28:26
Just go and pay to get them frozen out and have done with it smile
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Cappuccino on Mon 12-May-08 12:29:00
it does seem to be doing something

it is certainly cheaper than the shares I have bought in Bazooka gel, to no avail
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Miaou on Mon 12-May-08 12:29:10
I gave up with duct tape for my verrucas, I couldn't get it to stay on. In the end I went for the "traditional" method and bazooka-ed them. Took dedication and 12 weeks but it worked!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By iCod on Mon 12-May-08 12:29:16
arf
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By DarrellRivers on Mon 12-May-08 12:29:19
v interesting
they don't teach this @medical school hmm
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By MrsBadger on Mon 12-May-08 12:29:23
look, as referred to recently on MN - theyoungvisiter has links to proper studies in the BMJ and everything
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By DarrellRivers on Mon 12-May-08 12:30:08
do you reckon it would work with molluscum?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Cappuccino on Mon 12-May-08 12:32:33
arf

I should have asked mumsnet first

dh has started calling mn 'mystics'

he says I come on here going "Oh, ye mystics, I offer up this question to the altar of the Mumsnet. I am no longer able to make my own decisions"
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Miaou on Mon 12-May-08 12:36:14
x-posts capp - mine was over 15 years old blush (in my defence I was told to leave it alone and it would go of its own accord hmm). With the bazooka stuff you really have to do it every night, if you forget then it does grow again quite rapidly. It's a pain but I'm glad I made the effort as mine had got so big it was causing me pain [ewww emoticon]! And I didn't even use up a whole tube either!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Cappuccino on Mon 12-May-08 12:37:09
miaow I couldn't do the bazooka thing with one of them because it is in an awkward place that I can't see

I can apply a big bit of tape randomly around the area with less problems


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