Hi all -
Sharing this here because things got so desperate in my house that I would have LOVED to have found this thread.
My five year old daughter got warts on her feet, likely from the pool. Big planters warts with the little black seed in them. Started with 3 or 4 per foot and within a week they had bloomed to about a dozen. It was insane.
So I first tried the Bazuka creams, and diligently tried filing her skin with a nail file and then applying the cream. She hated it, and frankly after 3 weeks things only seemed worse - as with that treatment it became painful for her to walk. It was so dramatic with just the nail file that I didn't dare bring her in to get them frozen off.
Finally I told her that I'd spoken to a doctor and she qualified for a new medicine being trialled, that she was a particularly difficult case and would get access to this state of the art medicine. Then on amazon I bought a black light/UV light for like 8 pounds, and put some petroleum jelly/vaseline into a small jar. With a paintbrush I painted the "magic medicine" (vaseline) onto the warts of her feet and shined the blacklight on it for a minute each. Under blacklight, vaseline glows a golden color and looks pretty fancy.
That was it. Put her in socks, and sent her to bed. The next day the warts started dying, I kid you not. And now, two weeks later, her feet are 100% clear. Not a single wart, not a single piece of dead skin remains.
How did I know this would work? Because when I was about 8 yrs old myself, I had warts on my fingers. I went to the doctor THREE times to get them frozen, and after that horribly painful process, they came back. Finally the doctor told me I'd qualified for a trial, painted something pink on them, shone a blacklight - and the next week they were gone. My parents confessed years later it was nothing but Pepto Bismol and a light bulb.
Warts are largely mental. You can get hypnosis to help get rid of them. Or, spend less than 10 pounds and do what I did. You may have to go thru a bit of the normal cream remover process to convince your kid they've got a "special case" but then believe me - and my daughter - it WORKS.