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.

DS1 had multiple verrucas for years. We tried everything and the GP had a go at freezing them, nothing worked. One night I read on MN about Apple cider vinegar. We applied that every night and filed them and they went within a couple of weeks.

Verrugon made the verruca turn black and fall off in one big clump. Very satisfying

A weird one - my verruca disappeared when I was pregnant.... Over the counter stuff never worked mainly because I didn't follow the instructions obviously I'm not suggesting your DD gets pregnant but if she did.....bang! No more verruca

I had one years ago the chiropodist advised that if it didn't hurt (it didn't) just leave it, don't treat let your own immune system clear it and you will then have immunity to future infections. It took about two years, as he said it would, it then went away. This was all about 25 years ago and haven't had one since.

Mostly-I knew a girl who had tons of warts on her hands, too many to treat. She broke her arm and the disappeared practically over night.

Good thread.

DS has 3, 2 are monsters, huge and black and right where his toes meet the foot and he says they are painful. At the moment we are using some paint stuff from the GP and filing them but the are really awkward to get to. One was bleeding last night and I noticed a hole there earlier when I applied the stuff. Still a huge mound of skin around the hole though so not sure why there is a hole (it's a tiny hole). He also has a large wart on his finger.

DD now has a small verruca on the side of her foot. I have 2 small ones on my foot that have been there for at least 5 years. DD gets bazuka but I can't be bothered to treat mine as they don't bother me.

If a child has verrucas on their feet soles, should you be covering them up for pe, swimming etc? And with what?

Duct tape has worked well for us to treat DC's verrucas and warts. Verrucas hurt because they are a wart that is forced inwards because you are standing on it. Apparently, it's a combination of the lack of air and the duct tape's rubber based glue slightly irritating the wart/verruca, which alerts the body's immune system to the presence of the virus and prompts it to get to work (or so a chiropodist told me).

As well as the duct tape, I used a solution containing salicylic acid - as strong as you can buy OTC. Apply it daily then use either a sandpaper, or, if you're reckless and impatient like me, use a stereilised chiropody blade to remove the top layer of skin once the solution has killed it off. Each time you do this, the verruca is pressed less deeply into the skin (a bit like a small ball emerging as you shave the side off it) until it's all gone.

You should get a sock for swimming shouldn't you? verrucas spread through direct skin contact (which is why they spread in families if one family member doesn't treat theirs) and in damp wet places such as swimming pool changing rooms and gym showers.

I have heard of a treatment called needling, where a fine needle is inserted into the verruca to stimulate the bodies immune system.

They are agonisingly painful. Different things work for different people, I,m convinced that only our own immune system gets rid of them. My dd had one recently, we used something from the chemist, but I think it was the filing that got her immune system stimulated to get rid.

We have just spent 15 months working on DDs feet. Which overlapped at the beginning with me taking 21 months to get rid of 1 on my foot.

I had 2 cryo treatments on mine, as well as salicylic acid, home cryo, nail varnish, duct tape, you name it. Even brought back a decent supply of the stronger cryo kits from the USA on hols.

DD also had 2 cryo treatments in her GP to top off the home treatments we were using on her.

Some people can get rid of them easily - others have stubborn buggers which take a LOT of effort. I mean, we were freezing every week (rules are every 2nd week) and most weeks I was doubling the "allowed" time I held the freezing stick on it (more so on mine than DD - not wanting to cause pain), painting with acid every night other than freezing night, and getting a GP cryo to kick start it all. And it still took months and months to clear both our feet.

Oh yes, filing helped too - we were pulling off the dead skin off the top nightly, then filing down, before painting the acid on.

This reminded me of how I got rid of a thumb wart some years ago. I sterilised a pair of scissors and cut around it. It bled like a motherfucker but it never came back. It didn't get infected or hurt that much. I am clearly an excellent surgeon.

Lol klayden.
Thing is with verruca socks - I haven't seen anyone wearing one in the last five/ten/twenty years. And I bet my arse loads of kids have them.

Y are there any was thinking that the other day! There was a kid swimming at our pool in what looked like one of his mum's popsocks and I thought "I hope that is not a verruca" before realizing I hadn't seen one of those rubber socks for years!
I caught 2 foot warts at a pedicure recently - the chiropodist annihilated them in 1 session. Sadly I think we are just expected to pay to see a chiropodist if the OTC stuff doesn't work. They are good value though IME.

I think it was proven that verruca socks didn't stop other kids getting verrucas so they went out of fashion.

You can get swim socks and swim shoes these days

Our GP suggested duct tape for DD2 and it really was a miracle cure. Patch on morning and night for a couple of weeks and they had turned black and fallen off. Totally pain free and didn't seem to matter if the patches fell off a bit.

How do you get the duct tape to stay on? DS's are in such an awkward place I don't know how we would get it on. They are under his toes.

Do people bother with verruca socks for swimming? Like PP have said, I've not seen one child wearing them and they must have them. A boy at DS's martial arts class has a cluster of about 10 and they do it bare feet.

I saw a child wearing a verruca sock last week, and admittedly that was the first time in ages.

I don't see the need for all the telling off the OP for daring to consider a doctor's appointment. There's quite a bit of this lately on threads about NHS treatment. No one will reassign the theoretical verruca budget to something else if OP nobly refuses treatment, and while all this is done in the name of defending a cash-strapped NHS, if we reach the point of shaming anyone who uses it for less than cancer or a heart attack, we've already lost it. Bigger thinking is needed.

Years ago I cut mine out with a paper scalpel, because nothing was working! tape, otc treatments, all was fine till my home surgery got infected somehow?! Even though I religiously bathed it in TCP .

GP gave me a telling off and some antibiotics, I'm now not allowed to "self manage" but I do. I can't be bothered with the GP surgery it's always a waste of time.

moral of the story, give anything a go first before a GP appointment all you get is a stern telling off when it goes wrong .

Found something - British Swimming 'discourages' the use of verruca socks.

www.swimming.org/britishswimming/swimming/understanding-verrucas/

Yes, that article does say putting resources into trying to eradicate veruccas is not worthwhile but also says that whilst the socks have limited value "a waterproof plaster is sufficient", indicating that they should still be covered up in the pool to stop the virus from spreading.

So they're not saying don't cover them up when you are in the pool environment they're simply saying you can do that using a plaster.

I struggled to get anything to work. Eventually it was filing nightly which worked.

DD & I had every treatment but freezing. Lots of OTC, duct tape, bananas, weekly visits which included gouging with a scalpel & acid application. Nothing worked, they got worse instead. Years and years. DD's feet were like barnacles.

One day, Dd tripped & cut her foot a bit, blood everywhere had a nurse check who was appalled by the verruccas, insisted we see GP. Sympathetic GP agreed that sometimes nothing works. We did NOTHING else & they disappeared within the next 6 weeks.

Mine finally went when I started filing the blighters down hard (nothing else).