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?

Mine never hurt - only slightly towards the end when they spread beyond the ball of my foot onto the side.

Hi, thought you might like to know that my ds had four large verruca's on the bottom of his feet, when I say large I mean the size of a 10p. Did the usual things went to the doctor who said they did'nt freeze them any more as they normally go on their own, and that it would be cruel to freeze them on a child with sn (my ds is 12yrs and has asd) as he would'nt understand what was happening. So I thought about using 100% tea tree oil on them which I did, just covered the whole area, did this twice a day for a week, and two weeks later they had fallen off, I was amazed. Give it a try it won't do any harm, would advise 100% tea tree oil as its alot stronger, got mine from boots. Good luck.

I read about just covering them with duct tape and thought "how can that possibly work?" I bought some little patches (meant for warts) which had some kind of medication in them and then you cover it over with a plaster, they were gone within a couple of weeks. Previously with the salicylic acid it has taken months to get rid, so I'm sure the 'covering them up' thing helped, which would explain why tape works too.

If you must leave them at least make sure they're covered for PE/swimming etc as its so disheartening to get rid of one only to find they have caught a new one a couple of weeks later!

My gp said to leave them unless the cause pain

I am defo going to get some tea tree oil - thanks for that. Also I will cover it too though I still can't get my head around duct tape. ;-)

One advantage of duct tape would be that it covers the "infectious" verruca - and would stay on in water if/when they go swimming.

DS got a verruca on his left foot and within a few days it had multiplied into 12 and 5 more had appeared on his right foot too!

What I did to get rid of them was to file down the hard skin (to expose the infected bits) every night after his bath, so when then skin was soft. Then apply a drop of bazuka to each one, leave to dry, then spray his feet with this spray plaster stuff to stop them spreading or infecting anyone else.

With my Ds's I filed his foot every night until the verucca bled and then applied bazooka. Gone in a couple of weeks.

nail varnish!! or duck tape! nail varnish has worked for both DS and DD2. We spent £££ on trying to get shut of DD2's! it was massive and very painful, 2 weeks coating with nail varnish its was gone!

anxious we already have and they've never come back. GP said its all rubbish about trying to avoid catching them off floors, swimming pools etc, they are everywhere according to him so you can't avoid them. So the only way not to get them is to get immunity, the only way to get immunity is to expose them so the body can cure them.

popsy I got my dd to file them herself, that way she knew when it hurt. She just did a little bit every day. Initially it doesn't hurt that much as there is so much hard skin. Then they turn black and drop off. Appreciate that sometimes the area they're in makes it harder to get at.

I had one for ten years! I finally got rid of it with expensive laser treatment, nothing else worked.