duct tape on warts does work!

[rosemay2]

WARTS - I HAVE A CURE AND IT WORKS!!!
Both my husband and I have had a lot of warts and I was really upset when my baby daughter had one on her finger almost from birth. It didn't go and over the last 3 years they kept spreading. Doctors said to leave them and they'd go but recently lots of tiny new ones appeared, mainly on hands and fingers but also on her face and round her mouth.
A new Doctor came to our surgery who told me to try 'duct tape'. She'd used it on her 3 boys and it worked. It has to be the silver tape. You put it on just 1 wart, leave the tape on for about 5 days and then either just nights or on a few days, off a few days. You have to do it for about 3 weeks and the one under the tape will go and then gradually the others will all start to get bigger (they sort of push out and look crusty) then they get smaller and disappear!! IT IS AMAZING! The ones on her face were the last to go but now she is wart free. The tape irritates the wart and alerts the body to its presence, it then produces antibodies - apparently! It's a miracle I think. Wasn't on Mumsnet but joined to spread the word. Good luck!

[Galena]

Hubby had loads of nasty warts on his hands - he found tea tree oil worked. Took a few weeks, but it did the job.

[Blu]

Duct tape can also pull your skin of if it is ripped off, or even removed gently.

I am amazed that a Doctor suggested this, and think it is deeply irresponsible to encourage children to see it as something that should be put on skin. It is an industrial product.

I have SEEN the shins of somone who jolily out it on their leg to see if it ripped out hair. It took off the top layers of skin - flayed her.

[Blu]

'jokily put it on their leg'

[Lulumaam]

DSs gp also recommended this and it was on a printout from the GP about treatment for warts

[cocolepew]

I used this method for veruccas

[Milliways]

Our GPs recommend this.

Duct tape finally removed a whole crop of verrucas that I had, that had grown resistant to Wartner, Strong bazzuca & anything else available.

Oh, and is it was my feet we used the black stuff!

[grumpykat25]

oh marvellous! thank you- I'm off to raid the shed to see if I can get shut of these veruccas. Thanks!

[SoupDragon]

Unfortunately, IME it doesn't work.

[SoupDragon]

[Amapoleon]

Fantastic, I have been fighting a losing battle with warts on dd's foot for about 2 years now. I am desperate enough to try it.

[Blu]

Please please please be careful using it on delicate skin. Honestly - it stripped skin off a leg like wallpaper off a wall, leaving it red raw underneath. She had to go to hospital.

[JamesAndTheGiantBanana]

I agree about there being a "mother-wart" isn't it strange! When I was about 12 I had one in the crook of my elbow, also had eczema there and I think with the scratching I must have managed to spread them, eventually I had a huge patch of teeny tiny warts all over the inside of my elbow, probably about 50+ as well as this bigger one. The doctor burnt/froze the big 'un off, and within a couple of weeks they all disappeared. So weird!