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

213 replies

VoodooChickenhead · 15/02/2007 22:08

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

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ruty · 20/02/2007 18:37

using tea tree oil at the moment. Is it safe to apply topically when pregnant? [not pregnant a moment, but just wondering if we ever get round to it...] am breastfeeding tho...

climbingrosie · 20/02/2007 18:39

I don't think it matters if the banana skins are not ripe, it will still work. Is the skin around your dd's verucca hard? Is the verruca raised at all? I would be worried about filing a foot on someone so young but it didn't hurt me, just do it lightly to file away the top of the verucca. TBH I didn't always file the verucca that has now disappeared, so you don't need to do it often.

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VoodooChickenhead · 20/02/2007 18:43

my biggest one is raised,
I hold the banana skin in place with dh's electrical tape! he finds it very funny, but the tape is fantastic, comfy and does not budge all day inside socks, and my feet get quite damp

the banana skin is tingling, and the verruccas have gone black so something is happening...

they dont sell duct tape at tesco, so I am sticking with bananas for the minute.

Duct tape is grey heavy-duty thick tape.

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VoodooChickenhead · 20/02/2007 18:44

I am not filing them, just trimming them off every few days with a special pair of nail scissors.

Will I reinfect my self if I do get rid of them? Do I need to bleach the bath andtiled floor to be sure? Buy new shoes???

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Olihan · 20/02/2007 18:51

Dds verruca is raised, on her heel and the skin around it is soft. So if I tape banana skin over it and file it after her bath, will that be pretty painfree for her? Or as it's raised could I just snip it off with the nail scissors? Would that hurt?

SlightlyMadScientist · 20/02/2007 19:05

You only need to file once a week with banana. If the verucca is raised thats good - as you shouldn't take away to much live skin. Just use a really fine nail file. I personally wouldn't cut it off. DTD1 found the banana thing quite painless unless I did catch her wrong with the file.

I have heard that blackened banana is best. I also don't like spotty bananas so it was never that black - but I always tried to pick hte ripest part of the skin. I also stored it in the fridge for 3-4 days before using a fresh one so I didn't have to eat bananas every day.

climbingrosie · 20/02/2007 19:52

Yep I stored my peel in the fridge too, although I never have to worry about running out as DS eats four to five bananas every day

Bobalina · 20/02/2007 19:59

Oh sod it. I'm gonna just have to do the banana thing aren't I? Sounds like the only way to go. Was really hoping there was something more dignified and speedy but hey hoe! Can everyone who manages to get rid theirs please let us know. Banana peel stuck to foot for weeks on end is some committment so think we need to keep undated for moral support. Good luck all

wheresthehamster · 20/02/2007 20:02

Can you tell me if banana skin works on warts as well?

I have them all across my knuckles like an old witch and Wartner doesn't shift them.

SlightlyMadScientist · 20/02/2007 20:54

Veruccas and warts are identical so yes...

wheresthehamster · 20/02/2007 21:17

Thanks - will try it tonight.

Jennster · 20/02/2007 22:08

I'm using t-tree on mine and I'm pregnant and breastfeeding whoever asked. Used a whole tube of wartner and didn't shift at all. Was using Bazooka which was working until I got pregnant. It gave the 'access' to the black bit and the pithy bit which I have dug out a bit am now filing it down and applying the tea tree with a cotton bud.

estatebabe · 20/02/2007 22:21

Wartner is just dry ice, so I guess that counts as natural. Its about £10 but it treats 10 of the little blighters. one application and it will be gone in a week - promise!

SlightlyMadScientist · 21/02/2007 09:41

Wartner doesn't freeze as deeply as at the docs. If it is a well established Wart/verucca it is unlikely to freeze deeply enough to treat in 1 application.

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VoodooChickenhead · 21/02/2007 16:11

Hi Jenn!!!!
Anyhoo...
another banana filled day. but I went shopping earlier and didnt want bananery uggs so I had a banana free morning...

they are as normal after a day of bananering, just black in the middles.

wonder if this will work on my stubborn ones...

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FluffyMummy123 · 21/02/2007 16:12

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ruty · 21/02/2007 16:43

Wartner is rubbish IME.

FluffyMummy123 · 21/02/2007 16:44

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Dophus · 21/02/2007 16:55

I had a couple on each foor for over ten years - they were unsightly and extremely painful. I tried absolutely everything so don't believe that any of the below-mentioned therapies will work. If they have been around that long then they are dug in. I tried every medication going with and without invasive (and painful) scraping) - they always grew back.

A couple of years ago they sudeenly got a lot worse and multiplied - a couple of months later they just upped and went on their on accord. They have never returned.

SlightlyMadScientistExperiDave · 21/02/2007 17:44

COD listen to MN - Banana, banana, banana....

ruty · 21/02/2007 17:54

tried the banana last night - tried to stick it on firmly with plasters on each side - half way through the night my dh found something cold and clammy on his foot - yep banana skin. How on earth do you lot keep it on?

charliecat · 21/02/2007 17:56

Havent read all of thread, just last post, but tape and sock And the banana thing works.

Aero · 21/02/2007 18:10

We went through rather a lot of micropore tape to keep the banana skin on. Works well.

prettybird · 21/02/2007 18:10

I also had them for years - well over 10.

Had a big crop and samll crop on the ball of oen foot and a smaller set on the other foot (I think - not sure now about whether they were on both feet).

I can remember my Dad freezing and cutting one out (before the larger crops had developed) when I was in my early teens.

Eventually, at about 30, decided I needed to get rid of them as they had started to srpead to the side of the foot and cause pain. treated them with salicylic acid - dripping the acid on to the centre of each verruca and covering with a plaster. It was agony as I was treating such a large area. At one stage, ti was like a whole thick layer of skin was lifting off the sole of my foot.

Stopped treating them when I was going to be going off skiing, to give my feet a chance to heal. At this tage, they were much reduced - only the Mummy and Daddy verricae were still quite large.

Anyway, after my skiing holiday, I noticed that they were finally disappearing. it was as if I had managed to get rid of enough of them thast my body could then deal with the rest.

And as it was my body that finally got rid of them (rather then me cutting them out), I now have full resistance to them, and have been free for over 15 years!

fruittea · 21/02/2007 18:22

We just got rid (crosses fingers) of one on the end of DD's toe. It was like a blackberry on the end of her toe (only slight exaggeration...) It was too sensitive to pick at with bazuka, so we went for a two-pronged attack - freezing at the surgery, a couple of days off, then a good filing (gently) and a bit of bazuka. She still baulked at the bazuka sessions, and I have to admit we didn't do it daily, but we had another feeezing session 3 weeks later, followed by more bazuka, filing and picking, and it finally came off.

Both DC have had quite a few this last 12 months - feel like we're finally coming through. One bit of experience to pass on is that I find the bazuka more effective if you leave it on for a few days. When you peel it then, it takes a larger amount of skin with it, exposing the verucca more effectively. Haven't tried the duct tape or banana methods, but guess it's a similar principle - soften the skin by excluding fresh air, then pick lumps out of the buggers. The filing, picking or cutting out part is essential. Perseverance, unfortunately, is the only answer.