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To be annoyed friend never sorted the wart out?

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Toomuchtooyoung01 · 09/03/2020 13:45

Friends DD has wart on her finger. Has had it for ages and has never treated it. Am i being unfair to find this irritating as her DD regularly plays with/holds hands with my DD and as such puts her at risk of passing on the wart to her?

OP posts:
Roomba · 09/03/2020 19:19

My mother had one on her finger for over 20 years, possibly even longer, can't recall exactly how long.

She tried every OTC remedy posible many times. She had it frozen off at least twice by the GP. It just came back every time. Then one day it just vanished. They can be very difficult to get rid of even if you try everything!

lmcneil003 · 09/03/2020 19:22

If you sleep with a key under your tongue, you won't get warts.

LellyMcKelly · 09/03/2020 19:28

My DD has a trail of warts down her body for months. We tried everything and then gave up. One day we were out in the park and noticed blood coming through her dress. It was her warts. They’d all just dropped off - at the same time. Nothing was rubbing them or anything. It was bonkers!

hazeyjane · 09/03/2020 19:36

Don't be daft.

berryhead2013 · 09/03/2020 19:45

I had warts on my hand quite big ones I used dandelions snapped the stem and put the sap on them also managed to get the root of the dandelion and used that two they disappeared in a few weeks

Lweji · 09/03/2020 22:10

If you sleep with a key under your tongue, you won't get warts.
You might choke, though.

Housemum · 10/03/2020 17:29

I paid £150 to go private and get one removed from DD’s finger and one on her face. Both came back - waste of money!

CaptainNelson · 10/03/2020 17:37

There is really nothing wrong with warts, other than that people don't like the way they look. My DS had some on his hands for years, I and the doctor told him to leave them alone, which he didn't. He tried all the over the counter stuff, nothing worked, he overdid it and scarred himself. Then, as PPs have said, he woke up one day and they'd all gone.
They are not harmful. Warts and verrucas are both very low-level viruses which the body takes a while to recognise and respond to, but when it does, they go. I really wouldn't use any of that freezing stuff on a small child.

TickyTacky · 10/03/2020 17:45

Eldest son has issues with warts on his fingers, nothing is working except time. We tried different lotions and potions for so long his normal skin became too thin and bled.
On the other hand youngest son had a cracking verucca on his foot. 1 week of lotion and the entire thing fell out whole! Leaving a good hole in the sole of his foot. I was gagging while being rather impressed Grin

FelicisNox · 10/03/2020 17:46

I haven't read the whole thread so I'm not sure how you know she definitely hasn't treated it, either way, as others have stated, they are best left alone.

It's really not the end of the world and you're being somewhat unkind.

Let it go.

MamaFlintstone · 10/03/2020 17:48

I had warts all over my hands as a child. They were treated, including at hospital, but still took a long time to disappear. In the meantime other children didn’t want to hold my hand. As a 6 year old that was pretty upsetting. Hopefully your DD isn’t picking up your attitude.

beadyboo · 10/03/2020 17:55

Ticky what was this magical lotion? DD has had veruccas for years and nothing seems to shift them.

Oldfail · 10/03/2020 18:00

I had about 30 warts on my hands as a child. I was bullied and teased for it.

We tried everything m, burning, freezing, tablets, some sort of liquid, rubbing meat on them, lemon juice. Nothing worked.

The only thing that got rid of them was washing my hands in pure water from a well in the woods... kid you not.

About 10 years ago another one came back and has never gone. However I was not aware that I have ever passed them on to anyone

I remember knocking the top off one and it bled for ages. Was horrible.

Yabu for thinking unkindly but also they are BU if they are not trying to get it sorted

Mumtoone39 · 10/03/2020 18:01

Completely off the point of the thread, but will share my wart story. I had a persistent wart on a finger for years - tried various things with no joy. Then one day at work ( vet) , it got bitten off by a badger and has never come back. Not a recommended method of removal and I was lucky I only lost the wart!

Middersweekly · 10/03/2020 18:23

DD2 had some warts that cropped up randomly on the back of her leg/ behind her knee. The biggest one got infected after the top had been lopped off of it. I squeezed it to get the remainder/ infection out and it healed up and went away. The others I suggested applying sudocrem over and within a week they had disappeared! She’d had them for a few months before this. May have been a fluke but it’s worth suggesting to your DD’s friends mum.

glennamy · 10/03/2020 19:38

You call yourself a friend?

Inwiththenew · 10/03/2020 19:49

When I was little I had a friend whose hands were covered in knobbly warts but I never caught them. You have to remember that exposure is also good for the immune system, exposure isn’t all bad.

purplerainpitcher · 10/03/2020 19:57

YABU my daughter had a wart for a long time we tried many different over the counter treatments and they just made the skin around it sore and painful and didnt do anything to help so we stopped treatment and then one day randomly we noticed it had disappeared by itself.

Catwaving · 10/03/2020 19:57

I know a wart remedy that works like a miracle and is entirely pain free and doesn't cost a penny

My young daughter used it on a very big persistent wart on her hand. Gone entirely painlessly in 2 weeks

Just one of the incredible herbal remedies that our wild flowers provide, and a plant which most people ironically spray with harmful chemicals and freak out about on their lawns

Catwaving · 10/03/2020 20:06

Use the milky sap from a Dandelion flower stem twice a day

Gone

Catwaving · 10/03/2020 20:07

You can also eat Dandelion flowers and leaves and roots (if you don't cover them in cancer causing, wildlife killing Roundup that is!)

BayandBlonde · 10/03/2020 20:11

I grew up on a farm and used to get warts on my hands / finger from letting the cattle lick me Grin

They fell off over time and never came back. And my fingers didn't fall off!

BrandoraPaithwaite · 10/03/2020 20:26

"Bitten off by a badger" has to win the internet today! 😅

Merryweather80 · 10/03/2020 20:49

I remember my Grandad treating one I had and any verucca with potassium pomangemate. I doubt you can buy it now and it probably isn't an a recognised treatment for either.
I stung quite a bit but worked.

I wouldn't advise it though, especially on children, when in all likelihood they will disappear of their own accord.

Rockhopper81 · 10/03/2020 21:34

On the other hand youngest son had a cracking verucca on his foot. 1 week of lotion and the entire thing fell out whole! Leaving a good hole in the sole of his foot. - @TickyTacky

This happened to me with a verruca as an adult! I had a large verruca just in from the ball of my foot (I'd had a magnificent blood blister there beforehand) and tried a method of removal which involved taping banana peel over it (it sounds even more bizarre typing that than it did doing it). A week later (the peel was changed in that time!!) and it just fell out in a lump. Which left me looking at a hole and wondering what to do about it! It filled in overtime, although I am prone to hard skin in that spot.

I also had 4 warts on my hand as a teen that failed to respond to treatment - woke up one day and all 4 had just gone, but it had been over a year by then. I can't see where they were now (although I remember where), but I get eczema on my hands, so it probably covers any residual marks!

As others have said, it's a virus that your body can take a long time to respond to, but it generally does.