Have you ever personally killed a wart with duct tape

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What did it look like as you were doing it? Did it get smaller? Change colour? How long did it take to go?

I was having it treated professionally but obviously can't now.

Thanks :)

Quetiapina I was taken to see Mr P at his workplace on the edge of the moors to have my wart charmed. Unfortunately I knew not to tell strange men my name, so it couldn't work as he had to hear my name from me and not my mum. It dispeared without magic in due course.

No. They come out when they are ready, and whatever you're doing at the time will seem successful. I've tried everything!

I got rid of my veruca when I was a teenager by digging in really hard with sharp tweezers and pulling out the root. I swear the horrible little thing was wriggling away from me, but I finally got it out after several evenings of work.

We did DS' verrucas and it worked. He'd even been going to a Chiropodist without any success.

Two weeks of duct tape and they popped out.

i have been treating a very persistant verucca on my foot, that I have had for many years, with dab on lotions. I lost interest in it again for a few months and last week noticed it had gone!.
I am wondering if the echinacea I have been taking more regularly might have helped.....
Any way - its gone but I never did try duct tape or bananas...

I got rid of a wart on my hand years ago by wetting the tip of a match and rubbing it on the wart.
I did it twice a day and it just seemed to shrivel away and has never regrown.
I can’t say for sure that it was the match rubbing that did it, because it could have just run its natural course but it’s worth a try if you’re desperate.

Yup. Several times on the kids. GP advised us to do it.

Yes! I had verrucas for years, used Bazooka, Wartner, all sorts and nothing would get rid of the fuckers.

Then tried duct tape and literally within a few weeks they were gone.

Then when DS had one I tried the same and it worked within a couple of weeks, like magic!

No but I know for a fact that Vicks kills toenail fungus. My now beautiful big toenails are testament to that. Hope you get rid of said wart soon though.

Thanks for all the replies.

For those that said it worked, did it change colour or look smaller before it died?

I've had my verrucca since 2005. I've tried all of the methods on this thread and none have worked. In fact now the little bigger has friends.
I've given up and just coat with nail varnish in the summer to hopefully stop spreading.

They go a bit whiter

Seem to remember digging my verrucas out with a pair of compasses when I was a teenager (several and had had them for at least a couple of years), wouldn't recommend it now as seems risky but I've never had one since.

@Cissyandflora my podiatrist told me everyone has fungal nail infections and unless it’s really bad, doctors won’t give you tablets which work from the inside and topical treatments don’t work. She says just put on nail varnish like everyone else does!

@Cherrysoup thank you! I’m not sure if it’s just damaged nails from trauma but painting over and ignoring might be the way to go! I’m using nailner at the moment just to give it a try. Although with the lockdown I’m not really keeping up with much.

This thread is a year old but I wanted to comment for others. Had them as a child aged around 7, nothing until I reached 36 and was pregnant. No doubt I was exposed to it but pregnancy must have made me more vulnerable to them.

Had it frozen as a child and worked great, after calling my doctor after hoping it would go away I was told they do not freeze and to use a little piece of gaffer tape 🤷‍♀️. No piece would stay on for more than two ours, even with other good plasters. I’m pretty active. I think I must have oily feet too.

I then read about nail varnish so tried that. No idea why but I tried gaffer tape on top and it’s now been on two days and after two showers! It stuck to the polish, accidentally found a solution. I can’t yet report the results but if your trying to keep the tape on maybe try this. Happy to experiment on myself, obviously a judgement call as far as children are concerned.