verucca help required!

[kennycat]

Help! My daughter (8) has a verucca and I feel very underqualified to deal with it. I had them as a youngster but still I have no clue what I'm talking about. We have been using bazooka for a fair few weeks now and she won't let me near it. I would love to have a right good dig around but she won't let me. She is picking the stuff off every night and soaking it and doing all that and usually gets some bits off, or out, whatever the phrase is. It still won't actually go though and it's really painful for her to walk on it so she has developed a silly walk! What treatment works before I go and waste more money on this appendage?? TIA

I can't advise you but I'm in the same boat. My daughter had two rounds of freezing at the GP just before the first lockdown (after 6 months ish of treatment at home), the veruccas were almost gone, and now we've had a year of Bazooka (obviously GP won't treat them right now) and they're still with us. They've been hanging on for about two years now. I'm so fed up of the treatment night after night. (Also tried duct tape and cider vinegar to no avail.)

DS had one when small. This worked.
www.superdrug.com/Health/Foot-Care/Verruca-and-Wart-Treatment/Superdrug-Verruca-%26-Wart-Spray-50ml/p/505935
You have to be careful not to get the freeze spray on healthy surrounding skin but his turned black then eventually fell out of his foot as a black, hard disk -it was amazing! It left a crater in his foot initially but that soon filled in normally. Don’t dig around in it, I remember DM using tweezers to pick the ‘seeds’ out of mine and a pain shot up my whole leg. They aren’t seeds, they are dried blood in the capillaries!

DS had awful verrucas on his feet. I took him to a Podiatrist who applied a strong acid to the verruca. 10 days later, the verruca simply fell off. No pain or discomfort at all.
I didn't try this myself, but my friend swears by Thuja, a homeopathic remedy.

Are you using Bazooka Extra Strength, with the emery board? So much better than the standard bazooka. Otherwise, the Superdrug spray sounds good.

Try soaking the foot in Apple cider vinegar each night for 30 minutes. My son had some stubborn ones ( had 9 + months) that just would not go, freezing etc did nothing after a couple sessions the smaller ones were gone and with in 2 months they were all gone using Apple cider vinegar method

Have a word with your pharmacist. We got a freezing treatment for a massive verruca DS2 had. It wasn't terribly comfortable for him and he used to cry after 10 or so seconds (we had to hold a freezing cold pad on it for c. 30 secs) but he was very brave, it was over quickly and nothing else was needed, such as filing. I felt very sorry for him - he's only 5 though and I think would have been better if a bit older.

On the plus side, he was chuffed to bits when it fell off during the night (I may have assisted with this while he was asleep as there was no way he was letting me and my tweezers anywhere near it) and can look back on it all with amusement (after I confessed.....).

My DD had a stubborn one last year. Bazooka did nothing. I followed a suggestion on here of applying clear nail polish to it each night to ‘suffocate ‘ it. It dropped off after a week leaving a little crater so nothing left. Has never come back. I am now evangelical about the nail polish solution.

A strict nightly regime worked for us after Bazuka failed (and made them bigger?!)

• soak in the bath
• file skin down, tweezer bits off if able (slightly painful)
• paint with dark nail polish
• next night, soak in bath, file off nail polish and pick anything else you can
• paint with dark nail polish

This worked wonderfully for DD.

We had to strictly soak in the bath and file down as much as possible every night. Bazooka did nothing but make it bigger and sore so we stopped that. It went after about 3-4 weeks of strict filing.

Current advice is to leave them alone unless their position causes pain or discomfort. “Treatments” aren’t effective and risks spreading them- it’s when the skin is abraded or damaged they take hold.

Leave it alone and let the immune system get rid of it.

I took my son to the podiatrist as he had stubborn verrucas that we had been trying to get rid of with all the usual treatments for ages. He did a treatment where they stab the verrucas with a very tiny needle to activate an immune response. Was a bit sceptical but they disappeared for good within a few weeks!! Not sure what the treatment was called but a podiatrist should know. It was expensive though- I only did it because it was covered under my family work insurance . Definitely worked though and a relief not to have to bother with gels and freeze sprays anymore!

Dandelion flowers worked for me when everything else failed. Wash them and squash them a little and place them on verruca with a gaffa tape on. Change every few hours. I had 5 stubborn ones for years....all gone in 2 weeks.

Soak with apple cider vinegar then stick duct tape over every night.
Has worked for us 3 times now.