veruca - vinegar experts what next ??.

[Rosa]

DD6 has a veruca on her heel. We have been apple cider vinegar packing every night for a week and it now looks like a crater with a black centre . What do I do now ? Keep going and will it 'fall out"? Or do I need to file it or something . Thank god this is working as she doesn't do doctors , nurses very well....thanks !

BUMP

I came on here to say "Take her to a doctor and have it properly treated" but not sure what to say now if her aversion to doctors and nurses is a priority for you.

NHS doctors and nurses won't treat veruccas any more as treatments have a patchy success rate.

I've never tried the vinegar cure but with most veruccas cures you're trying to irritate the verruca to kill it off so I'd try a bit of either filing, or very careful paring away with a chiropodists knife (you can buy them in most chemists) to expose the root.

My DS had one on the ball of his foot. I just bought some bazuka gel and applied daily. The verucca went black, then white and started coming away from his foot. After a couple of weeks, it fell off!

I tried the vinegar on my own at the start of last year, I had a little cluster and a few of them were drawn out and I managed to get them off but a few smaller ones didn't seem to do anything so I stopped - about 2 months later I looked and they had all gone so I think the vinegar was doing it's job it just took time. They haven't come back either.

Doubt very much Drs will do anything when I went to GPs about DS it flags up red on system meaning they not allow to prescribe or do anything.

Every time DS got out the bath I got tweezers to pull and the black roots as much as he would allow then used a nail file to sand them down and to get rid of old skin.

He had them on his big toe and the inside of other toes which was painful for him to walk on. They just one day disappeared, I never tried vinegar thou

"it flags up red on system meaning they not allow to prescribe or do anything."

That is shocking. NHS sounds great on many levels, but I don't know how this sort of attitude in healthcare is considered acceptable.

It is an infection. It needs to be treated, not just for the sake of the patient but also to limit the spread of the virus to others.

There seems to be a laissez-faire attitude to Molloscum in the UK, too, which is similarly shocking imho.

Try duct tape. You apply it like a plaster and leave it there (changing as necessary). The verrucas will go within one to two weeks.

Go and see a chiropodist and get it treated, not all chiropodist will treat them ( they are very contagious/infectious viruses)

Avoid getting the foot wet, so use a verruca sock for bathing or showering and keep covered. As verruca survive and grow on damp and wet areas.

September is a ripe time for verruca as dc go back to school after the summer spent in and around pools and they spread quickly at school in changing rooms.

Oh, I just started a post about Verrucas. Will try some of these tips on mine.

Cote - Its not a priority for me - she just goes to a complete meltdown if you say the doctor needs to take a look or - lets go to the dentist. I add as well she has had no traumatic experiences with either profession ( unless you count vaccinations ...) and no amount of explaining that nothing will hurt and its all just trying to help her etc.
I started using apple cider vinegar and it has since gone blackinside 100% and feels really hard - well the skin was hard anyway. We are actually going to a spa this weekend to celebrate DH birthday and I have got her beach shoes to wear with rubber soles as when I went into the chemist here ( Italy ) to ask for a verucca sock I got a look !!!
Well it will have a break from the vinegar for a couple of days and will see what happens. I started to try to get rid of it as it is right on the main part of her heel and it was starting to annoy her when she walked.

DS2 and DH both got rid of theirs using vinegar (bog standard malt). Just keep going with what you are doing and it will suddenly drop off or start to come away at the edges and you'll be able to pull it out.

I was prone to then for a while. I used the OTC cream (seal and heal I think it was called). Apply it in the morning, pick it off the next day and apply a new layer. It works really well at removing them and because it seals the infected area it stops them spreading and you an still go swimming etc.