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Big black verruca on my son's foot

4 replies

BeatyBeast · 04/02/2018 10:36

About the size of a 5p piece. We've been treating it with Wartner and it went from a speck to this huge monstrosity. Do I take him to the GP? A chiropodist?

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xxlala7xx · 19/03/2018 21:25

After my sons went black it fell off not long after..

Mummytron · 21/03/2018 18:28

Agree, my daughters came off not long after turning black

alwaysthepessimist · 26/03/2018 13:13

use Salacatol - you can buy it over the counter - works fantastically. Are you rubbing it each day with an emery board to wear it down too?

TaurielTest · 26/03/2018 13:21

My son had a monstrous one for months, and then he got a second one too. We used 2 different types of gel, bazuka then one prescribed by GP. Neither worked.

Podiatrist friend took a look, debrided the big one a bit for him and suggested we stop the gels and try duct tape instead. I was sceptical but they were both gone within days. Worth a try!

Incidentally she also advised us not to file it down with an emery board, danger of infection.

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