To make appointments with these GPs purely to tell them it’s their fault?

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5yo DD has had a wart on her hand for the last two years. To begin with I thought it would go away. It didn’t and it grew. I have never had warts and neither has any of the rest of the family - I have no experience of them. Googled, but as she was under 4 to start with, a lot of the treatments weren’t suitable.

When I showed the GP and asked what to do, she pulled a face and asked why I wanted to do anything with it. I muttered about being worried she might get teased, but the GP looked at me like I was made, so I accepted her response that I should do nothing. I felt pretty mortified for even asking.

Despite feeling like a complete tosser for wanting to sort out the bloody wart, I took her to the pharmacist when she was 4 and he gave us a gel thing to put on. This didn’t work, and a friend who had had warts suggested going back to the GP and getting them frozen off. So, I thought maybe I’d just had a strange experience and another GP might actually help. Well I got the same fucking response - a sideways, judgmental look and the feeling that he thought me a neurotic mother were all I got from this GP too. It’ll go away on its own he told me.

DD has had a bad spell of health lately, she has ricocheted from virus to virus and also unfortunately developed eczema on her face. Between the blocked, runny noses and the eczema she has touched her face a lot. Tonight I have discovered a fucking wart on her beautiful face. On closer inspection, she now also has 3 other smaller warts on her hand, along with the very large original wart. I am so upset. With myself for accepting what the areshole judgmental doctors said, but also with them. I don’t have a degree in medicine and didn’t know they could spread like that. Why didn’t they help me with the original wart? Why did they not consider the fact that they could spread?

I am a teacher and if I rolled my eyes and dismissed a concern raised by a parent which then escalated, I would have my arse handed to me, not only by that parent but also my line manager. I’ve got an appointment with another GP tomorrow who I really hope will actually help us properly with this (I’ve been told he is very good). But AIBU to want to make appointments with the previous two GPs, show them DD’s face and tell them that I hold them personally responsible for this?

Disclaimer: I would never waste GP time by actually doing this. But AIBU to want to? As I said, in my job I’d be hauled over the coals.

It’s a wart. Please don’t waste the time of your GP to tell him he/she was wrong. Warts are best left alone.
I thought this was going to be about s Dr failing to diagnose a serious illness 🥺

What happens if they spread all over her face? Who wants to go about with warts all over their face? I’ve never seen someone, never mind a child, with warts all over the face. Are we really going to be told to just suck that up?

The wart on her hand is 2 years old and it is growing. Am I honestly supposed to accept that the wart on the end of her nose should just be left for the next two years plus? If it grows as much as the one on her hand has it will actually change the shape of her nose.

DD had warts on her knee, eventually frozen off when they kept catching and got a referral to dermatology.

Look up Apple Cider vinegar with mother in it, if you put this on her warts every night with a plaster they should disappear within a week.

Yes I am a gp
Ccg is clinical commissioning group.. Basically local area team who decide what will or won't be funded.
They effectively set rules for GPS.
Cryo needs special equipment and delivery of dry ice.. Or liquid nitrogen. All has risk and is costly and the benefits to the patients do not outweigh the risks.
Your gp may suggest duct tape method or trying salicylic acid gel. But any treatment has about 50% success and over time if left warts will die off naturally.
I do understand why your upset about a wart on her face but you really cannot blame the gp

Is it this? My daughter has had it for almost a year. Not pleasant but unfortunately, not much we can do.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molluscum_contagiosum

It's not that the wart spread because the existing wart touched her nose. Her nose was irritated and the virus was able to establish itself in that weakened spot.

The stories of them going and various remedies are reassuring, thank you to those posting them.

Sugarformyhoney please note the disclaimer at the end of my OP. I did also consider putting one in about being grateful that this is not a life threatening medical condition, but I decided not to because it is still the sort of issue GPs deal with on a day-to-day basis. These warts still impact on DD and I am concerned that as she gets older they will impact more. If GPs only helped with serious, life threatening conditions a lot of us would be living our lives in a great deal of discomfort.

When ds was 3 or 4 he had a huge wart on his baby toe! Various gels didn't work and he screamed when I tried to file it

Loads of people told me to get a dandelion and break the steam and rub the white "steam juice" on it it will turn black and fall off!

I did and I did it two times a day for a few days and it went black and fell off!! It left a small looking creator I put germoline on and it cleared up and you'd never know he had one..
pretty sure I have pictures somewhere of it on my phone 😂

I'm sorry it happened to your daughter. I would be pissed off too if a wart appeared on my child's face. I'd also want it off for the reason you said: that she is not being teased. I'd get quite assertive though if a gp "gave me a look" and said something at the time. Maybe along the lines of "I don't want any warts on my child. Any way you could help? If no, a "sorry" is enough but no need to look at me like this or imply I'm wasting your time and being neurotic". They should have at least explained their reasoning behind the refusal. The worst is that, despite fact that we all contribute to NHS by our taxes, some people (including medical profession) act as if we are being "vain" for wanting something like what you described, like "it's only a wart, stop making a fuss", and pit "truly deserving" vs "vain time-wasters".

In the past they treated adult warts in surgeries. I had a sun spot on my face developing and the gp (not mine) refused to treat it, saying "ah it's cosmetic, and we don't do it on nhs". Clearly a blast from her can is so much to ask. I did write a complaint and my gp contacted me and treated this spot.

So yeah, I'd go and have a word with these gps. But please be polite and calm

I am sorry the GP showed no sympathy op. I hope you get a better GP. Try asking for a referral to dermatology

I didn’t know it wasn’t normal practice for gps to deal with them now.
I’m in the uk and my 4 year old had 2 warts frozen off at the gp last sept.
She had had them for a couple of years, and she was catching them on her clothes so they booked her into freezing clinic no problems. The little one fell off within 2 days and the big one took a week. No sign of them coming back yet. It said it hurt a bit but she didn’t cry while they were doing it.

I would be upset too, OP

I think you are massively overreacting. The gp won’t help because it’s not a medical issue. Warts are common in childhood, don’t most kids get them? They also usually disappear. I appreciate its and unfortunate place to get one though. I had one in pregnancy recently, literally vanished overnight once baby had been born, so strange. My grandma ‘cured’ my brothers stubborn one on his knee with some ‘magic cream’ (just plain old moisturiser). The placebo worked and they were gone within the week. Maybe worth a try?

Wart removal is not usually funded, particularly for children as it's painful and the wart will likely appear elsewhere anyway. Some beauty salons offer cryotherapy but I'm not sure you'd find one that'd do it on such a young child.

Never had one that could withstand bazuka!
Please see a dermatologist for eczema asap - we struggled a couple of years with our well meaning and generally excellent GP and she had it almost gone within a fortnight

If you want them off, ask for them off. It’s still not a mid diagnosis in the first place though and not the fault of your GP.
Ime some children are prone to multiple warts and the quicker one goes, the next appears. Can be linked to stress or surpressed anger if you put any weight in homeopathic medicine.
It might also be molloscum I think it’s called, which is a virus which just needs to run it’s course.

OK, as more people post about how warts work I am feeling less angry at the GP. I guess it’s just bad luck, goodness knows she has had a fair bit of that with her health lately! Thanks everyone, this has helped.

Even if they got rid of one on her hand she still may have got more.

I second the Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar. I thought it sounded a ridiculous idea but it took about 3 weeks of morning and nightly applications to notice a difference. In 6 weeks it was gone. Painted it on with a cotton bud and stuck micropore tape over it so it didn't hurt when it was pulled off.

We're both doctors, several of our children have, and have had warts, they all disappear in the end.

When they go by themselves, they've left no trace. I've seen plenty of people with scars from cryotherapy and surgery.

If GPs only helped with serious, life threatening conditions a lot of us would be living our lives in a great deal of discomfort

yep, that. Like in the "good old days" before painkillers. It's not the people like OP causing problems for NHS with their non-life threatening conditions, it's the tax avoiding wealthy bastards who steal from everyone and who are the real problem for NHS. Let's not suck up to that agenda of saving on us.

Maybe they will freeze it off then AFOL Obviously I don’t want DD to hurt, but the salicylic acid the pharmacist gave us hurt anyway.

I had them all over my hands as a child. Too many to freezer or cut off. I had about 20. They all disappeared after a few years but I still occasionally get them on my hands and feet.

I've tried the acv, bazuka, banana peel, gaffa tape, pickles ointment, salactol...everything under the sun. It doesn't touch them. Every couple of years one will disappear, then sometimes another appears.

I've given up.

I think your DD will probably feel awful about her wart if you take her and point at it while complaining to the Dr! Is she even bothered about it? If you have to waste their time (rather than writing a letter) I wouldn't do it with her there.