Verucca help - at my wits end with dd's!

[hellswelshy]

Can anyone help at all? My 12 yr old dd's has had a verucca on her heel for the best part of 18 months. We have tried it all, the gel, banana peel, the plasters - none of it has got rid of it. I rang the gp in desperation about 5 months ago, not helpful, just said they can take a while to go. The issue is as it's on her heel, she's in quite a bit of pain and walking on her ball of her foot as can't put her foot down, which in turn is making her foot ache. We are all truly fed up with it, can anyone offer any advice?

Have you tried salicylic acid from the chemist? I think amazon might sell it too. You paint it on twice a day, being careful of the skin around the area, and it kills it. How long it takes depends, DS had one that took a few weeks and with the other it took a few days until the root was exposed enough that I was able to pull it out with tweezers.

Have you tried the freeze treatment you get? Although a lot of the time they don't work until the immune system kicks in to get rid of it

This is going back a good few years now but DS went to the Chiropodist with his and came out with a bottle of Glutarol. Involved applying and filing regularly and eventually got rid of his . We had to get another bottle but that was OTC from Boots.

I would go back to the gp, we were given a very strong substance to remove it.

Salactol was the one we used.

Salicylic acid paint and duct tape. Scrape (or cut if she won’t let you scrape) the dead skin off every night, re-paint and re-tape.

Thank you all. We had some left over gel from the gp as her twin sister had one shortly before hers started. I think part of problem has been she finds the treatment hard to keep going with and will barely let us touch it - not sure if this is her pain threshold level being low, or if it's truly excruciating! If I go in with a tweezers will it be obvious what I am looking for to pull out? Sorry if that sounds silly but every time I've looked at it it just seems like white skin?!

To make her foot more comfortable to walk on, put a corn plaster around the verucca - it looks like a thick padded doughnut with a hole in the middle. All the pressure of her weight is taken by the padded ring, so the verucca itself isn’t pressing on anything.
You can buy concentrated (26%) salicylic acid gel over the counter - the commercial prep is called Bazuka extra strength. I have found that very effective for children’s veruccas in the past, in the days when it was called Bazuka forte.
If that doesn’t work you could see a podiatrist privately, who can curette out the verucca.

@hellswelshy

Thank you all. We had some left over gel from the gp as her twin sister had one shortly before hers started. I think part of problem has been she finds the treatment hard to keep going with and will barely let us touch it - not sure if this is her pain threshold level being low, or if it's truly excruciating! If I go in with a tweezers will it be obvious what I am looking for to pull out? Sorry if that sounds silly but every time I've looked at it it just seems like white skin?!

The Glutarol stained the Verruca (and any surrounding skin) brown and we only did filing-no tweezing or anything.

You need Verrugon, which contains 50% saclicyclic acid and a corn and callus razor.

Use the razor to shave as much excess skin from the verruca as you can, put a corn plaster around it and the Verrugon cream on top. Cover with a low adhesive dressing and some elastoplast tape (a plaster won't cut it). Leave for 3 days - keep it dry so foot out of the bath etc. Remove the dressing and wait.

If it's worked she'll have a nice big blister that will peel off over a week or so, the verruca will be on top & normal skin underneath. If it's not worked, you bed to leave it a week or 10 days and repeat.

It probably will hurt, quite a bit, when the dressing is on. You're causing the skin to blister so it makes sense that it does. I had to go to a chiropodist years ago to get my feet treated as they were covered. This is what he told me to do to the smaller ones at home, in between visits to him to treat the larger ones. It works, probably not the first time, but a few rounds will get rid of it.

DD17 got rid of her long standing one last year by religiously using a battery operated scholl foot dead skin thingy, followed by bazuka - every night.

DS wouldn't let me near his foot with tweezers, so I used the scissors of a small penknife and cut the white skin away. You don't need to go in with tweezers, that will hurt! If you take the top white layers off every night, it will grow out.

Clear nail varnish

We have tried everything on my dds. The best thing so far was the apple cider vinegar with a corn plaster ring around it and covered every night.
I spent £1000 on swift therapy and they became scaly but are still there so I don’t recommend doing that. Plus she said it really hurt and on the second treatment refused to let them increase the wattage so that’s probably why it didn’t work.

Many thanks all. I will read through all of these and digest all the suggestions !

DD had one a few years back that didn't respond well to commercial treatments and she was very touchy about letting me near it. She did tolerate nightly painting of the verruca with nail varnish! We picked fun colours to make the whole thing seem more palatable to her. Not sure exactly how it worked, but it did and the verruca came away by itself after a while.

Duct tape worked here, I think it’s all about depriving it of air maybe? so tape and varnish stop air flow.

I had a few about 10 years ago and I used the banana method. I cut a piece of banana skin and taped it to my foot where the verrucas were every day. I think it kills the inside of the verruca because they went black in the middle. I ruined some socks but this method drew them out so fast. Then when they were super tiny I used bazuka and a nail file to file the last bits away.

Bury a small piece of raw meat in the garden, walk round it backwards at midnight asking the verruca to go away. As the meat rots, so will the verruca.

My mum's advice, not my GP's.

That last one made me laugh! To be honest we are so fed up with it, I'm willing to try anything

Good luck! I've had one for 13 years that I cannot shift

Salactol got rid of my son's massive one! He'd had it there for so so long

Another vote for clear nail varnish, you will think it’s getting worse at first but it will fall off or just leave a small bit to treat. Also cheaper and less nasty than Verugon. I had to resort to that on one that was about the size of a penny on the ball of my foot.

I have one that lasted for nearly 15 years. I tried everything and nothing worked. One day I sat on the floor with nail scissors, tweezers and razor blades and cut into my foot to get it out. It hurt like hell but it's never come back. Would I recommend it? No but it worked 🤷🏻‍♀️

Try Vicks vaporub! We use it on everything in this house