Dd has verruca - will she really have it for two years?

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I can't believe it would survive that long! I don't remember having a verruca for two years! Have they become super powerful since the eighties? Am now fearing getting one myself! Any tips to get rid faster?

If you do nothing, they may increase in size and numbers. We used a stuff every night from the chemist and it's taken about two months for the verrucas to drop off.

Really? DS1's took a few weeks of Bazooka treatment and off it came.

DS2 has one now - almost completely gone with a week of Bazooka, but there's still a tiny bit left so still treating.

Ah that is reassuring thanks. I did the google thing and just kept reading two years.

and on the flip side - hate to piss on your chips but ive had mine 5 years and went to a podiatrist who has counted no less than 28. one is huge....most kids do go eventually though.

mine are breeding.

I had loads when i was a kid, which my dad would freeze and cut out.

Then I had a whole whean of verrucas for over 10 years (from c. 17 to c. 30). Tried treating them periodically but only made a concerted effort when I was about 30 and they started spreading to the side of my foot and hurting.

Took a while with salicylic acid and there were still 2 left ( think they were the "mummy" and "daddy" ones) when I gave up (as I was going on holiday). At that point my body decided belatedly to use its immune system to get rid of these last two.

It's taken another 20 years for 2 more to appear . Which reminds me, I've bought some Wartner.......

oh raging! I would cry! I am a total wuss!

Prettybird - your post has brought back an awful memory of getting one of mine cut out too.

My dad was a medical student when he first cut one out. Might explain why later, when new ones developed and they didn't hurt, I left them and they multiplied!

I would leave it alone. The body needs to fight it with immune system. My ds had one recently. I can't remember exactly but we never touched it and it lasted approx 6 months before suddenly darkening and coming off by itself. I think they darken when they are dying.

DS had three - the two smaller and weedier examples were gone within a week or two but the big End Of Level Boss verruca took about three months and a range of OTC treatments to kill off.

If you can get a referral onwards then they can freeze the verrca with liquid nitrogen and it will drop off within a couple of days. But even going privately you generally have to swear blind that you've spent months trying every OTC remedy there is, and even then they don't like using liquid nitrogen on children because it's painful / distressing and you have to pin them down.

DS1 had one, one treatment of something from the chemist, and I pulled it out, not a bother.

DD had one from Easter until July we had tried bazooka & freezing but nothing worked, then I was advised to put tea-tree oil & duct tape on it & blow me they were gone within 2 weeks

I was so shocked!

Funnily enough I remember my friend at school whose dad was a gp. He refused to let her have any treatment for her verrucas and I remember her wearing her socks for about four years! He said the same about building immunity - wonder if she has any now?

Apple cider vinegar! It really works.

Whatyoulookingat - pulled it out? Wow - I am impressed!

Katymac - I read the duct tape thing online too. May give it a go!

He said it didn't hurt. I couldn't believe he let me to be honest, but it was fine.

My eldest's has finally gone after years of neglect by me and random picking at it by her. Anyway, what did seem to work was the banana skin treatment. Seems to draw it out or kill it. Horrible things.

I had one for ages but extra strong Bazooka shifted it in the end.

I had one recently and went to the chemist to ask how to get rid of it - they said if it was tiny and not causing me problems (it hurt when it first appeared but had stopped by then) then there was a good chance it would disappear on its own, so they recommended not buying anything up front and giving it a chance to fix itself. (Nice as it meant they didn't make any money out of me!).

And... it did! A few weeks later I noticed the dark spot had gone, then the "hole" in the skin disappeared too.

Don't bother with any of the over the counter crap or liquid nitrogen etc. They may get rid of it but you are likely to get them back again..The body needs to build immunity to get rid of them itself and the only way to do that is to use something like this foot file every night on the verruca to file away the hard skin and expose it. Once the body realises its a virus it will kill it off and you will thereafter have immunity. Trust me it really works, takes a couple of months of perserverance but verruca free thereafter!

Trouble is dd2 is a bit of a weed and quite dramatic. She asks her sister to hold her hand when she gets her toenails clipped! I am defo not being her birth partner! So I fear filing the verruca may cause drama. Plus it is in gap between big toe and second toe so awkward to reach.

I actually agree about the immune system - even though I ended up having a whole crop of them on both feet for over 10 years. I wonder if dad cutting them out (he froze them with liquid nitrogen and then cut them out) somehow hampered my immune system "learning"to deal with them.

Interestingly, one of the times I tried to deal with them, when I saw the company doctor about something else, he said that he COULDN'T freeze them 'cos they were too extensive.

pink teddy - 'don't get rid of them!'

Firstly they are extremely painful, secondly the infection then gets spread to gym floors and swimming pools (damp sweaty floors!) and infects others, thirdly good foot hygiene is a great help to stay shot of them!
Seeing a chiropodist is the key to success and not leaving them so long they get deep roots!

Duct tape.