To ask your ultimate verruca treatment?!

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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.

Re what podiatrists do, mine used acid (much stronger than the OTC stuff) and occasionally silver nitrate, which is a bit gentler. It took ages to get rid of all of them (I had loads) but my feet felt so much better even after the first visit. The last couple were really persistent little bastards but were really tiny and didn't hurt. My podiatrist still has me on his emailing list and he sent me something about a new microwave treatment that they're using, but I don't know how good that is (I presume it works well if he uses it). He wasn't a fan of cryo and didn't use it.

(This was the second podiatrist I went to, I didn't find the first one particularly helpful.)

After 12 years of verrucas and nothing helping at all, mine disappeared in about 2 weeks.

One had spread to my thumb (no doubt when I was picking my foot). Not long after I burnt my thumb very close to the verruca, and it was like my immune system could see the verrucas for the first time.

They cleared up so quickly, no craters and no recurrences.

I don't recommend burning someone on purpose though!

I've been reading about needling. Basically aneathatise the area then take a needle to push it back in for the immune system to respond to it.

Yep, needling worked for my dh. Don't know if they would use it on a junior but that's because I have no specific experience or knowledge of it. Ask a podiatrist.
By the way, our podiatrist was a run of the mill Northern practice not some kookie high end London quack- if there is such a thing.

I had one on my foot, went through 2 tubes of different verruca ointment, tried the freezing spray, nothing worked. A lot of doctors surgeries aren't sending people off to get them frozen/burnt off as they find it's not cost effective and often doesn't work.
I got fed up with it so had a go with apple cider vinegar. I filed it every day after a bath, poured vinegar on some cotton wool, put that on and taped it on. Bugger did it sting, real eye watering stinging. Two weeks later it was gone. Amazing.x

salctol, dd 4yo has had one for over a year, used this from the gp for 2 weeks and now it has gone, we had tried everything else before going to the gp

So common and so frustrating!!

Windward and others are right. I had terrible verrucas on my hands and feet when I was a teenager. I finally went to the gp every week for a few weeks to have them frozen. After a particularly painful session, one on my hand started bleeding and the doctor was very pleased - he thought it would trigger an immune response. It did, they all cleared up very rapidly afterwards. BUT I have scars on my hands and the skin on my thumb has never fully recovered. I'm 37 - it was 20 years ago.

I had a large wart on my hand for several years when I was a teenager. Had tried freezing it and it didn't work. Eventually I had a go at it with a scalpel and 40% hydrogen peroxide. It worked, although no idea how safe it would be.

In terms of needling on children, my podiatrist won't give a local anaesthetic to under 10s. Something to do with the kidneys.

Rub hand sanitizer onto the verruca and when it's dry use a Compeed blister plaster on it until the plaster and the verruca both fall off.

I know this thread is a bit old, but I was at my podiatrist yesterday getting a child's verruca sorted. I was telling him about this thread. His views, fwiw, were:

1. Dry needling - really expensive, painful, and no better than treating with salyclic acid.

1. Eating the verruca . Absolutely not. Ever. Apparently you can end up coming out in skin tags all over your body.

He reiterated his advice about thuja cream. Matchstick sized amount on the verruca, covered in duct tape. Repeat daily for 2-3 weeks.

He also recommended regular feet inspections (i.e. every week if possible) to catch them when they are small. Much easier to treat when little.

I am trying wartner gel on a wart - think my verrucca may have gone on its own accord - after 4 years and numerous treatments and dry needling which did not work and was agony

Agree with what others have said, after treating veruca with well known solution for months it was actually my own chiropodist who recommended the duct tape which worked within a couple of weeks

I had hundreds on my feet as a teen, a cluster on one heel must have had at least 100 of the buggers on. I had them frozen off at the doctors so it's interesting to read these cures here!

Once one went they all went - it was weird they just disappeared overnight and my feet were amazing again! Well not amazing but I could go barefoot without fear.

Broad bean pod. Rub the furry side on the verruca.