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Verucca or something else?

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Mammaaof · 03/11/2020 20:49

Hi, I've been putting treatment on my son's foot since march, filing it, re applying treatment, but it seems to be getting bigger and bigger. Not sure whether to bother the GP about it. It's really really painful for him to walk on it now. I'm now doubting that it's even a verruca?? Thanks

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Sunnydaysstillhere · 03/11/2020 20:55

Took 6 months +to get rid of ds's.. Looked like that. Used Bazuka.. Add extra stuff on every night.. Peel off 3/4 th night after a bath. Ds got a new pair of football boots for being so good - he was 5...

dementedpixie · 03/11/2020 20:55

Looks like a verruca and its in the right place to be one too. What treatment are you using?

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Mammaaof · 03/11/2020 20:56

Sorry I should have said it's so so thick with hard skin over the top, even after filing it doesn't seem to touch it!

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Mammaaof · 03/11/2020 20:57

Ive been using bazuka for 8 months now every single night without fail, it's just getting bigger and bigger, and has now spread to 2 other places on his foot

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GreenPlum · 03/11/2020 20:59

Classic verruca. After a couple of years I took DD to a chiropodist who put stronger stuff on, filed them and they went after two visits.

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Mammaaof · 03/11/2020 21:03

Ive been using bazuka for 8 months now every single night without fail, it's just getting bigger and bigger

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Sunnydaysstillhere · 03/11/2020 21:06

Clearasmuddypuddles · 03/11/2020 21:09

My DS has one the same. It’s getting huge, really quite swollen and raised and is sore to walk on. I’ve been thinking of taking him to the GP but the last few days it seems to be retreating.

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Mammaaof · 03/11/2020 21:27

Maybe I'll ring the gp after 8 months I would expect to see some important not it getting worse and he is consistently complaining so it must be bad with him, he's 6 🙈

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Sunnydaysstillhere · 03/11/2020 21:29

Have you actually been picking at it op?
Best way ime!! Shoved a biscuit at ds and the telly on..
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Mammaaof · 03/11/2020 21:29

Yes I have and I fear that's how it has spread to other places on his foot

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NothingIsWrong · 03/11/2020 21:32

Yes, we picked a lot with DD's. She'd have a bath, I'd have a good pick at it while soft and then put the gel on. Repeated every night for a week and it fell off a few days later.

She presented it to me with much glee while I was on a Teams call. Luckily with someone I knew well...

Sunnydaysstillhere · 03/11/2020 21:40

Ds's never spread and I picked every night!! Let the gel build up for a few days. No file just pick!!

Sunnydaysstillhere · 03/11/2020 21:47

Have you actually been picking at it op?
Best way ime!! Shoved a biscuit at ds and the telly on..
..

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Mammaaof · 03/11/2020 21:47

*improvement I meant not important

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roses2 · 03/11/2020 21:48

D'S had one a few months ago. I followed mumsnet advice and painted over it with nail polish every night to starve it of oxygen. It fell off after about 5 days.

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Mammaaof · 03/11/2020 21:53

@roses2 any nail varnish??

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Haworthia · 03/11/2020 22:00

Bloody things, both of my kids have had one. One child had one with little ones circling it, and the other had one huge one on his big toe.

See the healthy skin building up around your son’s one, OP? I overdid it with the Bazuka with my son and it seeped around the edges, and that healthy skin started peeling away from the verruca, exposing it, so it looked like a little tower (totally gross). Anyway, then he caught it on something, which hurt, but that ripping caused his body to realise it was there and it died.

Same with my other child. She pulled at it and then the whole crop died. I now think there has to be some trauma to the damn things before the body realises there’s a virus it needs to kill off.

Flowerpot345 · 03/11/2020 22:02

I used the freeze spray on my kids, my sons was particularly awful, its the only stuff I found that actually worked.

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Mammaaof · 03/11/2020 22:03

@roses2 any mail varnish??

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LeaveMyDamnJam · 03/11/2020 22:08

Use a pumice on it before applying the bazuka.

whitewineandmagnums · 04/11/2020 21:55

My DD had one that just wouldn't budge. Tried bazuka; filing; etc etc etc.

Was getting so sore for her and was spreading to smaller ones.

Our lovely GP used liquid nitrogen on it - 3 treatments and it dropped off never to return.

Not all GPs offer it nowadays but if you explain you've tried everything for months and it's getting sore/spreading, they might well do it.

dancemom · 04/11/2020 22:27

Whatever you use to file it dispose of it each time, don't repeatedly use the same nail file as you just reintroduce the virus

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Mammaaof · 04/11/2020 22:32

I sent photos to GP today and he has prescribed me something on prescription he said it's strongest thing you can have and can't buy over the counter so I hope this sorts it once and for all as it has started to spread x

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Serafinaaa · 06/11/2020 18:31

Something from the GP called salactol should shift it

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