***Vile I know...but How Do you Get rid of Verrucas? ******

[VoodooChickenhead]

I have had them about 10 years

I have tried a chiropodist, just cost £100, hurt a lot and didnt work.

Are there any herbal/non medical answers?

Thanks

you Bazooka them - obv!

Don't know if it actually works but banana skin is supposed to help - you cut a little square and stick it over the verrucca with a band-aid

bazooka is not very good.
banana skin eh...which way up?

Stick some 'Sleek' tape (Smith and Nephew) over them and they'll eventually drop off onto the tape.

Try neat lavender essential oil pressed into the skin with a cotton bud or matchstick. Worked with DD's vile warts which not even Wartner (freezing) would dispense with.

However, Warner did work on her verruca... Odd.

I would try lavender oil, and if no improvement after about 10 days then try the Wartner.

Yes - banana skins. Inside of skin to verucca. Looks gross and goes black (banana skin that is). Needs to be changed daily. Takes a few weeks, perhaps longer if it's a big one. It definitely works though - my kids have the verucca free feet to prove it. HTH

Get preggers
Only thing that got rid of mine,had them for 11 years and they were pretty spectacular and very painful to walk on.Woke up one day when i was about 20 weeks pregnant and they had vanished.

I had lots on my toes and some on my fingers.

Was referred to the dermatological clinic at the hospital where they froze them every month for over a year and they didn't go.

The consultant told me the virus which causes them will eventually be got rid of by your body and they will go only when that happens.

My freezing treatment stopped and after about another 3 months, they were ll gone!

Inside of the banana skin touching your skin I think. DD had verruccas and they just disappeared all of a sudden - but we had tried the banana thing briefly not long before so don't know if it helped or not....

hmmmmmmmmm
never heard of the sleek ape, or lavender oil...

thanks for all those ideas,

being pregnant didnt make mine drop off!!! just made my feet hurt worse!

in the mean time I have a banana downstairs, and I suppose it is recycling in a way!

sleek APE!!

obv. meant 'tape'

the zookeepers would be proud

wartner.

It took 1 application and 10 days later the two veruccas dropped out

ha voodoo, am contemplating going to the gp about mine - have had them 15 years and 3.5 pregnancies - not budged!!

wartner is £10 and I tried it last year, to no avail, and I pressed it on for over the time limit (risking nerve damage!??)

miaou......the gp hurts. a lot.
I have one big and three small on my right foot, along the fleshy bit where the toes link to the foot IYKWIM
and one small on the left foot, kind of on the end of the same area.
A chiropodist did not help, he froze them all twice for £50 a time, but said as I had had them for years the treatment may not work anyway.......he was right.

are they big? My DD1 had a crop of seriously awful ones when she was about 14... we tried absolutely everything and nothing would shift them.

We eventually went to a private clinic... an expert advised that they were too bad to be frozen off. Next bit sounds revolting... but he basically cut the top bits off of them and gave her some very strong liquid that she had to paint on regularly. In between visits, she had to use a file thing (what you use for hard skin on feet) and file them down twice a day. We had three visits and they went for good.

It was only painful the first time because they were big and he cut a lot off. But it worked and she is now verrucca free and has been for 4 years, so it worked!

Good luck

apparantly the only live for 3 years, so ive heard.

i did have a crop on my foot for around 2-3 years but are now completely gone, could have been they jsut died out or could of been i used to pick at them with nail scissors! (gross i know) coz its the little bloack root things in the middle that are the problem, so i started digging those out, they cleared up about 2-3 months later.

my chirop said the little black things are the tubes the verrucas build into your bloodstream to drink your blood!!??! They are the bits to remove.

My brill ideas was to just leave them, but that hasnt worked.

The expert with the paint sounds good too, wonder if theres one round here..

does the gp ... [shudder] ... dig them out, then? uh-uh-uh-uh...... Not doing that! I had loads of verrucas as a teen and my mum was told to dig them out - it was agony and not an experience I wish to repeat! I went for the old "they will die themselves in time" but I think 15 years is a long enough life for these buggers - they need helping out

My DD had one - and I did nothing with them. She wore socks all the time and swim socks in the shower or bath so as not to pass it to her siblings. It went of its own accord after about 3 months.

There was something in the Times this week, saying that Duct tape is better than bazuka etc. You stick a piece on, remove it after a week and wash/file the area, then repeat as long as necessary.

You might find the article if you search online.

Bazuka worked for me, combined with DIY "trimming"- when nice and soft I took a pair of nail scissors to them!

When DD had them DS followed her into the shower every day and did not get any.

If you have several just concentrate on one and the antibodies it produces will get rid of the rest while you are at it - lot less painful

Just before you get into bed, get a bit of banana skin, put it with the inside bit against your verruca, then put a sock on to keep it in place. Leave on overnight. You might find that your verruca goes black after 1 or 2 nights of this - but it took less than a fortnight to clear a couple of verrucas from my feet using this method. Not a very sexy look, admittedly.