Give me your wart cures!

[Wartsandalll]

I have a very stubborn wart. It's on the end of my finger, and it appears to be very attached to it. I have been using high strength Bazuka for months, and it won't budge. I tried having it frozen off at the GP... It's still here. Taunting me.

It's in a very annoying place and I just want it gone. Please, please, tell me your wart cures!

GP told me to keep filing it until it bled and then put Bazuka on it. It was sore but it worked.

My son used to suffer with warts on his hands. Salicylic acid got rid. But it may have been a coincidence as they are self-limiting.

i had warts for years as a child and had them frozen regularly then one day they all just disappeared. doc said it's a virus that your immune system has to fight off

As above: attack consistently and aggressively with a file and either Bazooka or those stickers you can keep on for a day, possibly more than advised on the packet.

I used to have weekly freezing at Dr surgery, having tried every OTC remedy. Was even given a cautery pencil to try and burn them out.
Multiple warts on my fingers.Had to wear gloves to do personal care at work.
Then someone queitly said" tea tree oil"
Pure tea tree oil, drip onto a cotton bud, apply to warts. Daily.
Completely gone in under a week.

Apple cider vinegar. I had a stubborn wart that I couldn't rid of even freeze by the doctor without any success. The apple cider vinegar apply on a cotton and taped to the wart changed daily worked a treat.

Had one on my finger for years. Nothing worked. Just had to wait it out.

Wartner, but applied messily so that it damages the skin next to the wart too. Did absolutely nothing by months of careful application but was gone in days after an (admittedly painful) mistake.

The only thing that has ever worked for me is slicing it completely off with a scalpel and then holding a cotton bud with hydrogen peroxide against the wound to cauterise it. It has worked several times for me, but not for the faint hearted, and I'm not medical.

I had been referred to plastic surgery for one on my face (without me realising). By the time the telephone appointment had come through I had dispatched it using this method about 6 months before. When I told the consultant she was impressed and said that that was more or less what they would have been doing in clinic, but using a different agent to cauterise.

In fact I'm planning to do one on my forehead tomorrow.

Salicylic acid. I had several warts and after taking SA for a couple of weeks noticed they'd started absorbing. Disappeared shortly afterwards.

My Nan wrapped banana skin round mine once and it went away. May have been a coincidence!

She also wrapped it in meat and then buried it in the garden. I have just googled both and they are old wives tale anecdotal cures! I thought she made it all up.

This. Literally nothing but time worked. It took 5 years in my case

How do you take it?

And what are you planning to do at the weekend ?

I got a home freezing thing for one on DS's hand, it was a big one and has taken 5 goes so far but it's finally getting smaller.

According to my book of Old Wives' Tales you should rub it with a cut onion and then stroke a donkey. Don't wash your hands for a week but repeat the process if the wart hasn't gone.

Apparently.

Oh. And if you've got grey hair, rub coal into it on a full moon and it will cure you of greyness.

This?

My DD has a few. GP wouldn't do anything so we've been using th home freezing thing. The big one does seem to be going and another one she had went away on its own but she still has quite a few. Will they just go away? She's had them about five years I'd say

We were told by a dermatologist to use banana peel and garlic! Dc ended up with infected warts before we could try this, but they sweared by it

As a pp said, apple cider vinegar.

I took some cotton from the end of a q-tip, dipped it in the vinegar, placed the cotton directly onto the wart, then taped a plaster over it. Don't let the vinegar soaked cotton sit on healthy surrounding skin, as it will burn.

I did this every night for about three nights. It will then turn black and scabby and after another few days to a week, it will drop off. Don't be tempted to rush it by picking it off - I did that with one of mine and it left a scar.

Vicks vaporub every night and cover with cotton gloves or bandage, takes 2 weeks

Wow thank you everyone, I have started using garlic and if not will move on to tea tree oil and apple cider vinegar. Will report back if anything works!

Did anything work!?