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.

I second the plasters try Amazon

Stick them on and leave well alone then reapply - best thing we tried.

Same thing happened with my DD who had absolutely loads of them for a few years. It isn’t the vaccine that cures them (they’re different strains of HPV), it’s just that it’s finally something that triggers your body to fight them itself. Pretty much the same with all of these magic cures people claim worked. Duct tape didn’t cure your verruca for example, it just happened to be the thing you were using when your body finally got its act together and do its job in fighting the virus.

Got rid of my daughter’s verrucas by making a paste with baking soda and Castor oil.

applied in the Morning and at night and cover it with a plaster. Didn’t take more than 2 weeks.

Gone and never came back (which they did with pharmacy verruca stuff)

Caprylic acid capsules. I took them for candida but a positive side effect was it also got rid of my verucas too.

Apple cider vinegar with a firm holding plaster. Keep changing dressing and re-applying. Gone in two weeks. Utterly amazing.

Another one for apple cider vinegar, google it, it works amazingly well, you see the verucca turn dark black then it falls off leaving a crater where it used to be

Thank you all so much for your posts, I really appreciate it!

Any update @Jokat, I really did enjoy watching my verruca turn black and fall off with apple cider vinegar 😂

Hi, I have literally just treated both my girls' feet (the older one also has a couple, though they're only very small) for the first time tonight with apple cider vinegar. The chaos of the school holidays has prevented me from doing this earlier, but we're now back on track with some sort of routine, so we started tonight. I'm planning on keeping the cider-soaked bits of cotton pad taped on 24/7 and replace every evening.
@Feelingtiredallthetime , how long did it take for your verruca to fall off?

I tried everything OP. My DS had verrucas for 6 years so similar situation.

Didn't work: bazooka, duct tape, tea tree oil, Amazon plasters, wartner freeze treatment, regular filing.

Eventually I mentioned it to the GP when we were there about something else. She prescribed a cream called Verrugon. You use it like bazooka, apparently it's a stronger salicylic acid. Amazingly, it worked. It took a few weeks, I'd say maybe 6-8, but you just keep applying it every night with a plaster and one of those corn rings and eventually the whole lot just drops off. Incredible.

I got it on prescription but it's available over the counter.

www.chemistcounterdirect.co.uk/verrugon-complete-verruca-treatment-6g.html

Thank you for this! If the apple cider doesn't work, I'll try this next!

@Jokat so I did the same as you a tiny dab of cotton wool/end of a Q tip soaked in ACV, then taped over with a plaster/some tape every day. Daily I would take off the tape, file it a little with a nail file then repeat. It took about 4 days - one week for the black to really start showing, then it fell off in about 3 weeks.

Thank you!

Any improvements yet? 🤞

Somebody on another thread gave a glowing report about the wartabator (https://wartabater.com/)

I have bought one and DS tried it and we're just waiting to see if it works. DS felt nothing at all with it, and he is ultra-sensitive.

I used Salicylic acid to get rid of both mine and my 4yo verrucas. For me I used a corn knife to cut the top off the verruca cos it was covered with skin and then used the salicylic acid every second day til it came off. For my 4yo I filled the top of it with a nail file every second and then put salicylic acid on. It was gone within a month.

My kids had them for years and we tried every thing then one day they just disappeared- on both of them - very weird but we looked and they just weren't there anymore. Mentioned it to GP who experienced same when he had warts on hands as a medical student - cannot explain how both children got rid of them at the same time ( they were aged 14 and 8 at the time )

I had them from about age 7 to 19 - doctors said if the immune response didn’t kick in by age 12 then it probably never would. At that point they were so prolific they couldn’t cut them out without impacting my ability to walk. Doctor recommended Thuja tincture - started using daily and they’d completely gone within a few months.

Thank you so much for all the advice!

@BSky, The apple cider vinegar didn't have much impact in the first three weeks, and by then the plasters started making the top of their feet so sore (we wrapped them all the way around, so they didn't come off within hours) that we gave up. We are now on extra strength bazuka and will see how that goes. A couple have gone down a lot (almost look gone). The worst one is my younger dd's mosaic verruca, it is a huge cluster and will no doubt take forever.

@Runnyyolkplease how did you apply the tincture? With a cotton wool bud? And did you put it on once a day?

The bottle I had came with a pipette and I applied it directly to my foot where the verrucas were - slowly letting it absorb. I think if you use cotton wool it won’t absorb as well. Yes - daily with some shorts breaks if it got too painful as the verruca covered my whole heel as it cracked it did get quite sore.

Oh, so you had a mosaic one (one of my dd's is also covering a huge area), and it still went away?! That is encouraging...

If you had needled the mosaic verruca when you posted on this thread she’d have had a sore foot for 24 hours and all of her verrucae would’ve gone by now.

You need to speak to her about something that is actually effective instead of messing about with old wives remedies giving her a sore foot for weeks on end. Mosaic verrucae are tricky

Yes, I’d had it over 10 years I think and it gradually got bigger and bigger. I don’t really remember what happened but it seemed like once it started to go it all went away very quickly!

https://www.superdrug.com/health/foot-care/verruca-and-wart-treatment/scholl-wart-and-verucca-removel-pen/p/775890
This is painful but it works. I thought I had tried everything too.