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To ask your ultimate verruca treatment?!

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SoAngryArghh · 01/04/2017 13:56

Exactly that!! Eldest DC has a very painful verruca on large toe underneath - is affecting walking and everyday activities!!

So we're trying salactol now and I've ordered duct tape.

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Littlefiendsusan · 01/04/2017 23:23

Braggs Apple cider vinegar is on Amazon. Just bought some for this very reason!

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SoAngryArghh · 01/04/2017 23:24

Littlefiend some have said it has no mother - hence watered down?!

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feeona123 · 01/04/2017 23:32

I had my frozen off st docs - worked a treat after a few sessions!

Littlefiendsusan · 01/04/2017 23:32

Mine says 'with the 'Mother' on the front.
Has to be Braggs.

mrsglowglow · 01/04/2017 23:32

Duct tape - worked both times when daughter had one. She was superb in keeping it covered at all times and they cleared up within 3 weeks. Very cheap and harmless treatment.

GoodDayToYou · 01/04/2017 23:33

Mine were dreadfully painful - shockingly so. Using Salactol was agony and didn't work for me. Putting ACV on them also didn't work for me but taking it as a drink (recipe above) did. (I also went through a lot of duct tape to the extent that I developed a tape allergy.)

SunshineOutdoors · 01/04/2017 23:40

Sorry, can we just rewind to the post where someone mentioned eating a bit of it? Shock

whatstheplanphil · 01/04/2017 23:40

I had a massive one on ball of foot every time I stepped in it it felt le I was stepping on a pin - I was hobbling like I hurt my foot . It has finally stopped hurting after fIling and freezing everyday for about 2 weeks . It still not home but it has turned black so I hoping its deAd . This was my first ever verruca and it was a total fucker . I'm acyually walking pain free for the first time in ages .

AllMyBestFriendsAreMetalheads · 01/04/2017 23:48

Placemarking because I have to try some of these. As satisfying as it is picking at a verucca with an implement I'm fed up of it (them? I'm not sure if there are more veruccas or the skin on my feet is just disgusting).

Loving the get pregnant 'solution'. I might save that one until I've tried everything else though.

gingerscot · 02/04/2017 00:36

I had them on both feet for years (at least 10-15), huge clusters of them and tried loads to get rid of them. Eventually i sterilised a sharp pair of nail scissors and set about the biggest. Managed to get blades around the head and pulled it out. Huge "root" came with it, leaving a crater (gone now.) Hurt like a bastard and bled profusely. But they all cleared up within a week of that, on both feet, and touch wood nothing since. Not sure I'd try it on a child, but I'd do it again on myself. Nothing else worked, including a year of private chiropadist treatment.

Wayfarersonbaby · 02/04/2017 00:50

I had a (painless, medium sized) one for ages and a chiropodist recommended cheap high strength corn plasters which were the thing that finally worked. They were bloody painful - the acid was pretty strong and killed a big patch of skin - but the thing then eventually came out a couple of weeks later and left the aforementioned crater. It seems to have healed up nicely now.

calli335 · 02/04/2017 07:48

Duct tape/black tape! Worked an absolute treat. We changed the strip every day. After a couple of weeks it turned black and flaky and by three weeks it had fallen off. No pain. No stress (after horrendous experience with Bazooka).

Nicotina · 02/04/2017 08:33

I'll say it again. Pay to go to a podiatrist if you have to wait ages for an NHS referral. My dh was in pain for nearly a year until the podiatrist sorted it. Yes we paid because we were desperate. It was worth it.

Satishouse · 02/04/2017 08:45

Yes, a podiatrist will sort them out for you, they are the experts!

BirdInTheRoom · 02/04/2017 08:46

Wartner has worked brilliantly for my kids verrucas

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SoAngryArghh · 02/04/2017 09:08

Yes we will go to a podiatrist. I want an expert though if I'm paying for it so am going to find one in our area that's good

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TalkingofMichaelAngel0 · 03/04/2017 00:29

What did your podiatrists do? Mine just did cryo for a year and that hasnt worked.

FreeNiki · 03/04/2017 00:43

The only thing that worked is the scholls verucca plasters with 40% salicylic acid. Everything else was too weak. Salactol was shit so was bazuka.

They made my skin peel and was very sore but you just have to persist with them. Use proper plasters to secure them as the provided ones are rubbish.

CoffeeChocolateWine · 03/04/2017 00:47

My DS recently had a big cluster of veruccas...about 9 on one foot and 3 on the other foot. It was originally misdiagnosed as a corn and after neglecting it for 3 weeks while we were on holiday we discovered that it had spread massively. We tried loads of different things, most of which have already been mentioned here - duct tape, banana skin, bazuka gel, filing and using an acid prescribed by doc - but they just kept spreading. In the end I took him to a chiropodist and she froze them there and then. He had to have 2 freezes but they all went and nothing since.

Nicotina · 03/04/2017 08:10

As mentioned in a pp, our podiatrist tried a fairly new treatment where, having used local anaesthetic on foot, pushed the verruca back into the foot. Kept it dressed and protected for a couple of weeks and the bastard had gone! Apparently a 60 per cent chance of success on first go. May need further attempts. Worked first time and ended a year of misery. This was on an adult, btw.

Nicotina · 03/04/2017 08:11

The push back in thing works like vaccination. The "virus" will always be there.

Pigface1 · 03/04/2017 08:28

A vote for cryo over here. Tried every over the counter remedy going. Had to pay to see a podiatrist as NHS referral would have taken forever. It came off in after one freezing - the cost wasn't that when compared to what I'd spent on over the counter stuff that didn't work!

yomellamoHelly · 03/04/2017 08:35

With my dd, her socks got stuck to the bazooka gel. So the verruca came out when the sock came off. (Cue many tears and lots of blood. But got rid of it very effectively.)

Roomster101 · 03/04/2017 08:44

It's very hard to completely get rid of them. Every time we thought we had got rid of them they just came back. In the end we just kept them down so they weren't painful and then suddenly in the space of a few days DD's immune system cleared the lot.

WindwardCircle · 03/04/2017 08:55

I'm with people who say the only real way to get rid is to get your immune system to 'see' the verruca.

I was riddled with them for about five years, it wasn't until they spread to my fingers that I really stepped up treating them. I bought some caustic paste and basically burnt holes in my fingers with it to remove them. As my fingers were healing I suddenly noticed the verrucas on my feet were getting smaller, and within a few weeks they cleared up all together. Im convinced the virus got into my blood stream via my fingers and my immune system suddenly woke up and dealt with the problem.

Unfortunately now my DD has a crop of verrucas. I can't treat hers the way I treated mine because she screams bloody murder at the slightest hint of pain. At the moment I'm trying sharpie on them but I doubt it's going to work, I think after that I'll go for duct tape and superglue.

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