ds and his verruca...

[lucykate]

ds has a verruca (well he has 3 but this one in particular is a problem), it's not quite ready to fall off and has got in a bit of a mess over the last few days since he knocked it and made it bleed. he won't let me near it but we're going camping next weekend, beach etc, so really need it to come off and start healing asap, what would you do?

1. he's asleep, go in and just yank in off.
2. keep trying with the bazzuka and hope for the best.
3. try some of the alternative remedies, duct tape, banana skin etc (do they really work?)

We had similar recently, DD is a complete drama queen and wouldn't let me anywhere near it apart from bazooka-ing it, the combination of sand and seawater seems to have done the trick though, so it might just work out!

Leave it. It will go on it's own............eventually.

shall i just leave it then?, am worried it'll get infected. it's a real mess, although i know from dd, that once the root is out they heal quickly.

sorry if tmi, but it's weeping a bit too. fecking horrid things. can't decide what's worse, nits, worms or verrucas. ds has had them all.

I'd try duct tape, its meant to be good.

There is a treatment called dry needling that costs about £40, thats meant to work well.

ds did hear me mention duct tape earlier and asked why putting sellotape with pictures of ducks on it would help.

Boots, Scholl and Bazuka all do a freezing treatment like the one the doctor uses. So long as he is over 4 years old you can use it, it generally takes only one treatment, but you can repeat every 2 weeks for up to 3 applications for really persistent verrucas.

OK...the method I use:

1. 1-2 weeks of Bazooka or similar as per instructions
2. Switch to banana skin. fleshy side down, change after 24 hrs. After a couple of weeks the verucca will literally seperate from the surrounding skin.
3. When the verucca is seperating on all sides go for a long bath/swim (covred of course). The verucca will literally fall off when you remove plaster.

Duct tape didn't work here

the verruca has already separated from the surrounding skin. it's like a little mushroom (or as ds described it, a lady wearing a hat!), but still quite well attached by the root which is bleeding every time it gets knocked.

I would be attempted to bananna it in that case for 3-4 days, then long bath and see if the last stalk dissolves.

DS has a few in a cluster. Dr gave him some paint on job by which said may or may not work and if it doesn't to try the duct tape.

Stuff in the bottle not worked at all, but the duct tape is!!

am going under his duvet with a torch to have a closer look at it.

good grief, not done that since the threadworms incident!