To make my daughter get rid of verrucas

[SunshineDayz1]

So my now 16 yo daughter had a verruca that I noticed a couple years ago. It’s since spread to both her feet with 5 verrucas now. They don’t bother her she said and she doesn’t want to bother trying to get rid of them she said. But I want her to because I’m afraid her siblings will catch them sooner or later. Plus I don’t want them to get any worse. I’m thinking about making her go get them treated. I thought they would have gone away on their own by now. That’s what I was hoping.

As long as she realises she cannot go barefoot anywhere, including swimming pools, hot tubs with friends, her own shower/bath at home or in hot weather and never share towels or shoes I would leave her to it. But read her the riot act first. Not everyone has a decent immune system so if someone immo-compromised caught it from her their life could end up being very miserable and painful. I could barely walk with mine and ended up having the Swift treatment which is very expensive and very painful, and I was very lucky in that it worked (doesn't always work on immo-compromised people). Quite honestly I think it's very selfish and mean of people to go barefoot knowing they have verrucas.

Just keep reapplying a new blob over the old nail varnish. Medical science says there is no reason why it shouldn’t work but I think I saw it recommended on here years ago and it’s been the only thing to cure ours.

Had one as a teenager. My mother tried everything but nothing worked. It eventually went away on its own. I did wear footwear all the time in the house and shower shoes in the shower. The only time it was painful was if something hit off it.

We had great success with Salactol paint here recently, managed to get rid of an absolute walloper (and another smaller one) on my younger DS’s foot within about 8 weeks of appearing (did the paint consistently for about a month of that) - eventually it had all died away sufficiently that I was able to just clip it out with a cuticle nipper. It’s not as onerous as Bazuka as don’t have to hang around got nearly so long waiting for it to dry.

Mine never seem too go.

About 10 or 12 years ago, I had one frozen off by a podiatrist. I'd had it for something like 10 years. The damned thing was in my heel where the skin is very thick and I needed goodness knows how many sessions with the podiatrist. Cost me an absolute fortune.

Two year ago, I went to the podiatrist again because I had a cluster of about 25 (!) verrucas. These I had also had for quite a few years. There is now a new microwave technology and I had them removed with that. It only took 3 sessions. It was very painful for about a second each time the microwave wand zapped a verrucca but there was absolutely no pain afterwards and no damage at all to healthy skin.

OP, I would get your DD down to the podiatrist if possible. You have to be very persistent with home treatments. I've heard from many people that duct tape works but it didn't for me .

Former pool lifeguard here. The advice now is to cover a wart or verruca with a plaster when swimming.

Read more here:

www.nhs.uk/conditions/warts-and-verrucas/

Many years ago my DC's one fell out when swimming

They hurt a lot more when you treat them than when you don’t. I got rid of mine by digging it out with nail scissors, but the process up to that point was agonising. I wished I’d never started.