4yo DD with warts

[RedHotPokers]

My DD has warts on her fingers. One large on her one middle finger, and one smaller one on her other middle finger. I noticed this morning that she looked she was getting more on her index finger.

We went to the doctor a while back about the first larger wart. He said to use occlusal, which we have been doing once every day or so, straight after bath and after filing wart with an emery board. It has reduced in size a bit, but then she got another wart and now these new ones!

One of the problems is she is terrible for putting her fingers in her mouth - sucks her thumb, bites her nails, even picks her nose when she thinks noone is looking! Doctor said there may be a chance she could get warts in her mouth as a result, although none so far thank god.

Has anyone got any advice or had a similar situation with their DCs???

There was a girl in my school who had lots of warts on her hands and she got picked on. I would HATE that to happen to my DD, but she is already a bit embarrassed as there have been a few 'eugh, whats that?' comments from her friends.

[RedHotPokers]

Bump

[SkivingAgain]

I found that if you have a SMALL injury/cut accidental is obviously best near one of the warts it seems to alert your immune response to what is a very mild virus, and then they disappear.

[BadRoly]

My dd2 had a cluster on one of her knees last year. They have all gone now but she probably had them for almost a year. Our GP recomended doing nothing and they would go on their own. Which they did. Although every time she fell over (which 3/4 year olds do a lot) and knocked them, they would bleed like buggery!

[keresley]

My Ds had warts on his hands for about a year. They just disappeared of their own accord.

[mrsravelstein]

what skiving said... dermatologist told me exactly the same thing about dealing with ds1's nightmare molluscum which took 6 years to go, when it finally got down to just about 10 or so left, he observed that if the spots (which are quite wart like with molluscum) got traumatised somehow they would prompt the immune system to clear them. with ds1's willing consent we attacked them a bit with a sterilised pin and it did the trick.

[mankyscotslass]

This is interesting...I came on to ask for advice on what the pharmacist said is a wart on the tip of DS1's toe, just beside his toenail.

She said to get him booked into the cryo clinic at the gps to get it frozen off, but I am a bit reluctant.

How can I treat him at home if we don't go down this road? The idea of a small injury beside it is appealing, but I'm not sure he woukld go for it.

[RedHotPokers]

Thanks all - some great advice. Has put my mind at rest.

Might try the 'small injury' plan, although I also intend to keep the freezing option as plan B.

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

DD had a huge one on her big toe. It grew so alarmingly she couldn't get her school shoes on. A GP used a frozen thing and it died.

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

My DS had the freezing option done and I cannot tell you how much it hurt him. It was incredibly painful and didn't actually work. What worked for him was bazooka gel

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

Interesting ratherbe. DDs was not uncomfortable in the slightest. The doctor got a freezy wand and held it on the wart for 30 seconds. We would have known if it had tingled at all. She has no pain tolerance whatsoever.

[crazynanna]

DD had an array of warts on her fingers when about 6/7...she was ribbed constantly
Took her to the doc,and he tried freezing,but it was so painful,she decided to stick with the warts! They left us about 18 months later.

Interestingly,my 'Grandma Elsie' in her Yorkshire wisdom,rubbed my knee warts with a raw piece of meat and buried it in the garden,proclaiming my warts would rot alongside the meat rotting.
I had the warts for ever...and the neighbour's cat got a quality piece of sirloin after major digging

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

kreecherlivesupstairs - DS was sprayed with freezing stuff. It was a big one on the knuckle of his thumb. Maybe that was the difference?

[crazycarol]

I had several warts on my hands as a child from age 7+. We tried all of the old wives remedies and the paint stuff from the dr. Sometimes it worked, but they always came back. But at the age of about 15 or 16 they all just disappeared.

[vanessasmum]

try thuja tincture, especially in early stages. Buy it at neals yard remedies.