Any other verruca treatment?

[Jokat]

Please help. My now 13 year old daughter has had verrucas on her feet since she was about 4. Amongst single ones, she's also had a cluster (I think it's called a mosaic verruca) that has got bigger and more pronounced over time. They are not hurting her, but especially this big cluster is having us worried as it is such a lump on her foot. So far, we've tried:
Bazooka; bazooka extra strength; some freezing home kit; silver nitrate; duct tape; banana skins; having a healer speak to it (we were desperate at this point); professional treatment from a local podiatrist who comes very highly recommended; she has treated it so many times now that she said the next step will be freezing or needling it, which my dd categorically refuses at this point. We have now started using hospital grade antibacterial/antiviral gel twice a day.
Can anybody recommend anything else? I'd be hugely grateful.

Other than freezing it off, no.

On a positive note, I had warts ALL OVER my fingers as a child, 30 or more of them, and we tried everything bar freezing them, which I point blank refused. One day they just vanished, literally in a matter of a couple of days. No idea what caused them to arrive or go but I was really happy when they did!

Find yourself a podiatrist that offers a zinc dehydration treatment or uses SWIFT laser.

Thank you for sharing, that gives me hope!

Thank you very much, I will look into these two things, I haven't heard of either of them before.

I have had SWIFT microwave treatment successfully after a 5 year mosaic verruca. If you go with it, make sure the podiatrist uses it exactly the way that was used in the study that produced the 80% success rate. It is an expensive and long treatment (3-5 monthly treatments, then a futher few months before it actually goes). It is moderately painful while actually being done, but in only in very short bursts.

Have you tried verruca plasters? These are painless.

They are small round plasters soaked in salicylic acid and are applied to the verruca. Every day, you remove it, soak your foot and then scrape away any infected areas before applying a new plaster. When you scrape, it is best to use a NEW Emory board nail file EACH DAY and then DISCARD it immediately. Do not use any reusable foot file EVER because infected cells then get spread each time you use it, causing more verrucas to appear or the current one to keep regenerating by reinfecting your skin.

Editing to add, I have put three discs side by side on at once to cover a mosaic verruca…you want the stick on discs to cover as much of it as you can.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scholl-Verruca-Removal-System-Plasters/dp/B00GBH32BK

How have you been using the bazooka? I found the most effective way is to just keep applying it each day. Do not remove the layer or file anything, just keep applying the gel, and eventually it will fall off in a big lump. Often leaving a large hole that will heal in a couple of days.

Thank you for all this info, I really appreciate it! I'm so relieved that we're not at the end of the road yet in terms of options!

I think my son was around the same age when he had needling for his mosaic verucca. He also had a few other ones on his feet. I know that she won’t fancy it but his foot was blocked so it wasn’t painful at all and within three weeks he had no veruccas at all. They all disappeared like magic.

I wish we’d done it years before instead of messing around with loads of other treatments

I did these for my 6 year old. Very stubborn verruca. I applied the plaster and put another normal plaster on top to keep it in place. Took 5-6 weeks but one day it just fell off.

We did do this for a long time. It fell off a few times and we thought it was clear, but it kept coming back and eventually didn't even fall off, and then we stopped as the lump became so big.

The best method I have found is duct tape.

Cover the veruca with duct tape and make sure no air is getting to it. Wear socks. Every evening change the tape. After a week the veruca will fall off

If you are not sure whether to keep going, it’s a good idea to take her foot to be checked by a GP to see if you have got it all.

I had a deep one as a child that grew inwards and that one I did have to have the rest removed in clinic by a doctor.

I would poke around in them with a needle. You need to try and get your immune cells to work their way in there. I think I got rid of mine after years by doing something similar. Try to damage it so that immune cells will infiltrate in. That’s what causes them to suddenly disappear. Also you could try vitamin c and vitamin d supplements to boost immunity.

https://www.thefootcompany.co.uk/blog/how-do-i-treat-verruca

basically try a home version of needling which isn’t so severe

Be very, very, careful with SWIFT. Yes it works but it certainly isn't pain-free. There are different power settings and the lower the power then generally you need a longer treatment (months, plus it's expensive). Mine was similar to birthing pains if I'm honest and on the final month I had an anxiety attack in the waiting room.

Yes it does work. Yes I would recommend it for very stubborn verrucas. No i wouldn't recommend it for children due to the pain. She's better off trying the other methods first imo.

We did this for several weeks, with no success.

Thank you for your insight 🙏

DS used to have them - awful bloody things. I had to soak, file, apply ointment every day. After months I thought 'bugger this - need a better treatment' and stopped - they went away.

Has she had the HPV vaccine? DS had at least ten, two of which were monsters.

NOTHING worked and I tried EVERYTHING.

He had the HPV and they vanished in one month!

Has anyone tried just numbing the area and cutting it out?
i know a (ASC) child who did this and got rid of it.
my daughter is so frustrated with one that she has she keeps asking me to just cut it off!

Go to the pharmacy & ask for some salactol. I have tried everything & this was recommended to me be a GP over two decades ago. My husband & I have both used it & now my children. You soak the area where the wart/verruca is & then paint some of the salactol on it being careful not to get it on surrounding skin. Then the next day you soak it again & file it down with an emery board before painting it again (again being careful not to get on surrounding skin). You just keep doing this until it falls off. It's easy to use, inexpensive & foolproof. And it isn't painful either.

I was plagued by them for years on both feet. I had tried literally anything and everything. I’d sleep with duct taped bananas on my feet every night. Sometimes they’d turn black but just went back to normal again after.

The thing that ended up getting rid of them all 10 years ago (and they haven’t returned) is called advanced electrolysis. I went to a clinic and a little fine pointed instrument was used. It wasn’t that pleasant but I think it was like a zap and although you leave with them still there, it kills them at the root and they just die and go away. I couldn’t believe it actually worked after everything I’d gone through to get rid of them!

My chiropodist recommended tea tree oil.

I was so desperate I tried this, regularly. Would fold over the skin and snip it away with nail scissors. I read that if you cut the area or cause it trauma, your immune system realises it’s there and needs to heal, it should activate itself to get rid of them basically. Didn’t work for me but I had 4 or 5 in total. Advanced electrolysis was the only thing that worked