7yo son has several warts/verrucas on his foot that are painful?advice please

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Son plays alot of football and has recently become aware of a painful foot when he walks on it. He had one that i treated with bazuka then 4 more have appeared but Baxuka didnt work. Took him doctors and the prescribed Salgel which stung and didnt work wther. He has 5 on one foot and very close by his little toe. They are panful and look awful. The big one is black in the middle. Never seen them before. Advice please????

Bazooka gel from the chemist, it's very good. It sounds like they must be very deep if they are painful . Try the gel, if they don't go in a couple of months then they may need freeing off.

yep bazooka is good my son has a verucca on his toe and ive started to put this on,his does'nt hurt tho . good luck with it

i have just started putting wartner on my ds11 wart on his foot it seems to be working but only started saturday.

Having tried the plasters impregnated with salyclic acid, which just kept on falling off, I ended up getting the freezing stuff to treat ds' verruca. He had a really big verruca - but it only took two application for it to go. You apply it every two weeks, so it took less than 4 weeks to disappear.

For us using bazooka gel works. It takes a while but it doesn't seem to matter that I put it on pretty randomly, ie twice a week for a couple of weeks, then forget for a month. The treatment seems to kick start the body to get rid of the verruca itself.

FWIW I had horrible verrucas when I was a child, freezing, etc etc, then aged 23? saw a French dr who just told me to get a gel and treat myself. So verrucas don't worry me now!

scholl freezy stuff is excellent and my ds1 age 7 didn't find it esp painful despite huge verrucas on toes

also reccommend taking homeopathic remedy thuja, exvellent for all warts

Searching the archives of MN came up with the unlikely choice of banana, worked a treat.

rub with banana skin (slimy side down) several times a day. or use milk thistle sap

no, seriously, they work really quickly.

wow you lot are clever mummies, thankyou

Banana skins are the best! DS1 (6.5) had a really deep one in the middle of his heel, used bazuka for about 2 months and nothing happened except he ended up with a big hole in his heel and really hard skin. GP suggested banana, and the verrucca was gone within 2 weeks. Cut a little square of skin off, put it slimy side down on the verrucca and put a plaster on the top quite tightly. Replace every day or immediately if it falls off. Skin will be lovely and smooth afterwards too!

My method is to do bazooka for a week.

Then do the banana. I have found that the banana is much more effective if you have primed the verucca with Bazooka type treatment first.

The plus is the banana is painless. No gouging out the skin. The verucca literally just falls off. Nothing seems to happen at first. Then it changes over about 3-4 days then gone.

Thanks you lot - banana eh id never of thought of that 1

Funnily enough we have just got home from seeing the doc because of a veruca of dd's. He said, "nowadays we ignore verucas, they'll go in a few months or they'll go in a couple of years." We had been using bazuka for 3 months, which dd says stings, then you have to peel the skin off before you apply the next lot etc etc. She's had this thing for months and months and as neither dh nor I have ever even seen one, we decided to get it checked out. He said we could carry on putting bazuka on it, or not, whatever we liked. We've decided not to put anything on it, but a plaster when dd is going around barefoot.

He suggested we rub it with an onion and then bury the onion at midnight on the full moon!

Having read this thread I'll suggest banana - dd will like that.

I put small slices of garlic under plasters on them at night. My DS had ten on one foot. It cleared them in about a week. But you have to be careful not to leave them on too long or the skin hurts.

for about a month we've been bazuka-ing my 5 yr olds tiny verruca which seems to have made it so much bigger its triggering terrible memories of a verruca i had aged about 9 which my mum treated with similar stuff after i while i started poking it and pulled out a montrous thing resembling the strings of pith in the middle of a tangerine...at least a centimetre long the idea of the banana skin sounds great thanks you

bazuka and the freeze stuff didnt work for DS2 and he had a clump of them on his foot. Bought a silver nitrate pencil(Avoca) and it worked brilliantly