to expect my GP to treat DD's veruccas

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DD is student 19 has 3 veruccas, called the GP today asking if she can attend the regular cryo (freezing) weds afternoon clinic to be told that she has to have used shop bought treatments first, having had them and failed miserably in the past the GP was still insistent we try again as 'things might have changed' bearing in mind she is a student the freezing bazooka treatments at £15 aren't cheap. Our GP's no longer have face to face appts now anyway, they assess over the phone before it's rare to see one, just another money saving scheme.

We got Glutarol from the Pharmacy at Boots without Prescription. It did the trick with twice daily application and much filing for DS.

Looked online at Boots, they don't sell, I'll call in to our branch thanks Sparklingbrook

I showed them the bottle the Chiropodist gave us and they ordered it in for the next day sayer.

YABU The NHS has no money. Perfectly reasonable to try OTC first.

do they need treating? are they painful? i would definitely not ever bother my gp about verrucas unless they were hurting.

Yes they are painful....will get glutarol

DS2's went really quickly with cotton wool soaked in normal malt vinegar and stuck to his foot with duct tape every night. Completely gone now.

Banana skin tightly taped to the verruca (so that inner bit of the skin is on contact with the verruca) is also a bit of a miracle cure that some GPs recommend. It cleared all my childhood verrucas and they never came back.

Verugon - great results for most people

Duct tape and salactol collodion. Put salactol cover with duct tape and leave for a week. Scrape and repeat

We tried duct tape but couldn't get it to stay on. Then someone told us to try lavender oil - OMG works a treat. DS had five on his foot that just would not shift but dab of lavender oil twice a day for about 2/3 weeks and they are all gone

A tube of bazooka or generic eequivalent is most def not £15.
The nhs is sinking, largely due to this entitled aggressive demand.
It's a verruca.
A GP appt costs significantly more than £15 and cryo a lot more with
no proven benefit over simple measures.
Cryo is no longer funded for gp's to do so any still doing it are soaking
up the cost.
Would you demand treatment if it cost £50 for an appointment and £100
for treatment? Bet you'd try the otc stuff then.

What on earth is the point of treating a virus wrapped up in keratin?.

YABU. Sorry you think the OTC stuff "isn't cheap", but if it's not cheap for you, it's not cheap for the NHS either, yet you expect them to fork out for it?

Go to the chemist like everyone else has to. Good grief.

Glutarol was a bit over £4 about three years ago.

YANBU OP. All the other PP presumably don't know how shit it is to live with them. I had 5 on my foot for 14 years. It's terribly painful and uncomfortable, it's not just cosmetic. Duct tape, freezing, nothing worked on mine. I eventually got treatment in my home country on a visit (a type of treatment not available in the UK I'm afraid).

just said to DP about this thread- he told me that he sealed the ductape on with medical tape, you know the type for dressings etc- as this stops the tape coming off and the air getting to it thus stopping it dying off.

viva100 No need to make assumptions. I've lived with chronic verrucas due to having a suppressed immune systems as a result of my medical treatment. I dealt with them myself. If one treatment clearly worked and did not cost a lot, it would be available. Why does everyone expect everything from the NHS?

Blimey, I've never had a verucca that wasn't horrendously
painful!

Do a mumsnet search for verruca. A treasure trove of info.

We are in our fourth week of duct tape on DD (6) 2 verrucas (one massive on her heel, another on her toe), and they are practically gone. We haven't bothered with bazuka or anything - there is a study which showed duct tape was more successful than freezing. It's on the NHS site.

We've used duct tape. NO EFFECT.

How did I arrive on a verruca thread when I just suggested a way to get rid of warts?

not all GPs offer cryo. Mine certainly doesn't. I ran a LNo2 clinic for years, can
honestly say that it is totally POINTLESS treating verrucas/warts with liquid nitrogen most of the time, even with curettage prior to treating. if you are going to use OTC treatments you have to be consistent with them but most of those don't work either.
Sadly, painful or not, this really is not a priority for a cash strapped NHS. We do, as health professionals, expect you to deal with minor ailments yourself.
YABU

After having seemingly unshiftable verrucas for ages, I tried the OTC freezing treatment (just under a tenner in the supermarket) and it did nothing.

However, I then decided to go back and try the more basic, cheaper treatment (Bazooka gel I think - under a fiver). I'd tried this before but it hadn't worked. However, I think in the past I was slightly haphazard in using it and following all the instructions etc if I'd had a long day and got back late - or after a while of it not seeming to be doing anything I'd give up. This time, I applied it religiously, following the instructions to the letter and just kept applying it day after day until eventually it defeated the little b*ggers.

they wouldn't treat my 2yo even though it was massively painful to walk on. weekly treatments at a chiropodist for 3 months finally got rid of it.