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

[TheAngryBatBot]

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.

My dd had a similar problem. One wart that got bigger, then she got tons- around 50 in total, about 15 big ones and loads of tiny ones. I put bazooka gel on the big ones for a few weeks and noticed an improvement. Then all of a sudden they seemed to fight themselves off and even the untreated ones have gone. Was around 2.5 years she had them. She only has the original one left which is growing again possibly as she gets very run down over winter.

Ds was 6 years old and had 17 warts on one hand - yes 17! We saw a dermatologist. No they don’t freeze them off on young children, it’s too painful. He did advise using one of those scholl pedicure sort of shaving thing that files the skin. It’s a battery thing. We did that every night, then taped them - his whole hand was pretty much taped up. It took about 4 weeks and eventually they began to go.

Firstly op you need to calm down. Your dd has a wart on her face not 3 heads. I doubt her or her friends care a jot about it. The way you are going on is more likely to upset your dd than any wart.

I’m not recommending you file the wart on her face though, that would be too tricky and not advisable! I think you are going to have to wait this out tbh.

You really need to sit it out and calm down.

Getting angry at the GP will not make the wart go away!

Its the virus that is making it spread not the GP. Your daughter's immune system will eventually fight the virus - it may take quite some time but there really is nothing you can do about it. If you have it removed the virus will still be in her body and she may get another somewhere else.

I know this because, I was you. DD1 had a wart right in the middle of her forehead, it was there right through primary school.

Our GP is trained to do the frozen ice treatment but he wouldn't touch it because of the risk of scaring. Yes, it was horrible, yes DD was upset at times but she learned to not be phased by it and grew a fringe. One day - it dropped off. Gone. Presumably when she was asleep - she woke up one morning and it was gone. No scars thank God.

DD3 had a verruca on her foot. It was there all through primary school. Nothing would get rid of it - we tried everything. And then just the same as her sister it simply fell out. It left a bloody big hole but at least it was gone and the hole is slowly closing.

I had a wart removed from my face 40 years ago. I had it for a year before they would remove it, so this is nothing new. And it was because they were concerned about causing a permanent scar. But I was a teenager and after crying at an appointment, got it frozen off.

You get them because you are a bit run down so the virus takes hold, but it does not mean there is anything wrong.

I’m a GP.

My own daughter had a wart beside her eye for 2 years - we just waited for it to go away by itself.

I know it’s upsetting, but any attempt to remove it could result in worse scarring than just leaving it to disappear by itself.

You and all the posters moaning that the GP should have at least done ‘something’ (sometimes there isn’t always an option to do anything!) need to get a bloody grip

This thread has made me feel a lot better. The anecdotes are giving me hope and even the ones derided me for not understanding warts or overacting are making me feel like it was unavoidable and perhaps, not that big a deal. I will try some of the suggestions, I might even try some of the crazy ones!

The GP appointment tomorrow was for me to discuss all my concerns about DD’s health - eczema, constant bugs and viruses, constant itching (not sure if rash is viral or part of eczema), pale, loose poos, fatigue. And now also the warts kicking off. She seems so under-the weather, but she has a good diet, gets plenty of exercise (when she’s not poorly) and gets 12 hours sleep a night. If anyone has any tips to boost her immune system I’d love to hear them, I am worried about her and feel like I’m failing because I don’t know what to do with her.

As an adult I developed a wart on my hand, felt self conscious about it for ages. Then I got another and they kept popping up, just my hands nowhere else. I also had really bad dermatitis on my hands and was using hydrocortisone on them. Eventually I had a biopsy taken (wouldn’t recommend for a child was very painful) with follow up in a few weeks. Before the follow up they all disappeared, it was bizarre,so I didn’t waste the GP’s time just left a message to say they had all gone. It wasn’t until a couple of years later that I wondered if the steroid I was using for the skin problem was encouraging more warts to develop. I have no medical knowledge and I could be talking absolute rubbish, in fact I probably I am but thought I would share!

deriding and over reacting

I did exactly that op when my gp at the time kept dismissing me when my son was ill. He turned out to have bacterial meningitis and spent 8 weeks in hospital and 2 years recovering/learning to walk/talk/ etc.

When we got out of hospital I made an appt and told him exactly what I thought . I was early 20s and I know they judged me as a silly young panicky first time mother. It nearly cost my son his life .
I felt better for it. And my gp was pretty sheepish and did at least apologise.

A bit of advice....my dd had a really big verucca on her foot when she was 3. It turned nasty and she couldn’t walk properly. GP wasn’t interested so I approached a very helpful podiatrist tutor. She said kids get warts and veruccas when there immune system is low. Her advice was plenty of blueberries every day and get her on a good quality daily high dose multi vitamin. It worked a treat and was gone within weeks. Worth a try maybe?

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OP does she get plenty of sunshine?

Hopefully your GP will order a blood test for your dd. I’d be concerned about her immune system and white blood cell count.

The warts could be a symptom of a larger problem rather than a problem in themselves.

Clear nail polish can work as well.

I had a wart on my hand as a teen that all of a sudden was gone one day.

I had hundreds of verrucas on my feet. The heel on one foot was just covered and I had enormous ones on there. They just spread and spread. I had them frozen off and it took two or three goes. One day - all gone. Every single one.

It hurt like a mofo though and I was 15 at the time. I wouldn’t have wanted that as a wee one.

Duct tape is also something I’ve heard of (and seen them advise on GPs behind closed doors)

they just tried to get us out of the room as quickly as possible by prescribing antibiotics or another cream for her eczema.

Any idea what the Antibotices were prescribed for at all?.

Just curious.

There is an old folk remedy, called wart charming, of cutting a raw potato in half and rubbing the wart with the cut side. One piece per wart. Leave the potato juice to dry naturally. Bury the potato/s somewhere not on your property and as the potato rots the warts go. I tried it years ago on a friend son who had had the wart for a long time and I promise it worked. I can only assume that there is something in the potato juice (enzymes?) that does something to the warts. They did tease me about it for quite a while afterwards.

I can verify that a cut potato and or a banana skin will make warts clear up a lot quicker. Google both, I'm not making it up, and I've used both. I didn't do any burying of the potato anywhere though, just put it in the bin.

@TheAngryBatBot dont panic.
My son had some warts on his hands-we cured them literally over the course of week with marigold oil. It sounds ridiculous and i didnt think it can possibly work but figured i have nothing to lose.
So we bought the oil you see in pic and in the evening i would cut a square piece out of my make up removing pads (size- enough to cover the wart area). Then i would soak the square in oil and put on the warts with the plaster on top (so it stays in place). The wart on his hand was literally gone within a week or two.
Try it. It worked for us, no need for harsh treatments etc. Best of luck.

The GP appointment tomorrow was for me to discuss all my concerns about DD’s health

I know this is something that you hear a lot about lately, but this is the time that vitamin D is low - you run out of summer reserves and it will not be sunny enough until the end of March, so it is worth discussing supplements with your doctor. Vitamin D is useful for making sure the immune system is working properly and a proper dose won't do any harm.

DS1 had contagious warts all over his torso when he was about 3, doc said nothing could be done, let it run its course. When I was bathing DS2 a couple of weeks later I found 1 wart high on his back - I covered it with a small plaster to stop it spreading, it worked. DS1 is now 19, you can still see the marks on his body.