Verrucca -gone nasty ?

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ds had 2 verruccas which I treated with Bazuka until the dark centre went, so stopped but it has left 2 callousy areas. One then bled when knocked, and had a blackish area form under the surface now other is also dark. I had expected the surface to dry out and fall away but it is still there and seems painful. Ideas as to what we should do or is it a case of waiting

The Bazuka gives a chemical burn which kills the skin (good and bad!). The whole treated area slowly blackens and dies - lovely.

When it is really dead it goes like an old dried up blister - all flaky and peely and the skin comes off. You'll prob have a baby verruca left underneath as I have found one treatment rarely does the trick.

So once the area has healed - reapply!

think we may be at the post blister stage then ! We soaked them last night and I filed the skin a little so less flaky now.

dd had a veruca on the sole of her foot which she was reluctant for me to go near. I basically applied bazuca every night - she wouldn't allow me to peel it off as the instructions advise - and following a few months of this plus a beach holiday, it basically fell off in the sea...leaving a small, clean, healed up 'hole' where the veruca was. Skin just grew over the area and it has been normal since.

From your description, it does sound like there's another veruca underneath so I'd apply the bazuca again, once it's all healed up.

DS has two very deep painful veruccas which I treated with Bazuka and Occlusal to no avail.

I was recommeded a homeopathic remedy and was told it would take three weeks. Its called tsuja. You take a tablet and also apply tincture to verucca. You also have to file down verucca before each application of tincture. It didn't burn and wasn't painful.

We haven't looked back since. HTH

And verrucas spontaneously disappear after about 2 years so as it sometimes takes a year for them to get big enough and ugly enough to start treatment there's possibly another year to go!

I had mine treated by a hosp doc with cryosurgery - and he had a wicked glint in his eye when he said he only accepted referrals after you'd had them for 2 years...and people thought he was a miracle worker!

Gagarin, What is Cryosurgery?
I dont like the sound of that!

At our docs we see the nurse every fortnight and she freezes them off with Liquid Nitrogen? in a spray can.

missmama - that's it!

Cryo just means very cold...my doc had a bigger more technical version of the spray can and it hurt like hell once the frozen numbness wore off..ouch

Laughing thru the pain here
DS1 and I have just been to have our warty fingers frozen and mine have decided to defrost halfway through the washing up!

so , if they are kind of crusty but have dark patches (if getting smaller I think) are they still contagious or dead ?

I speak from experience when I say they do NOT always disappear after 2 years. It can take a hell of a lot longer than that!

I have a mahoosive verrucca on the ball of my foot. Its been there for 8 years and I have had it treated with caustic chemicals (burning) cryotherapy (freezing) and have also had it cauterised twice. the damn thing is still there and because I try to keep my weight off it when I walk it is now making my toes arch. I would love to be rid of it once and for all. Next step is to be referred to the hospital.

3 years here, through 2 pregnancies. It's enormous too.

The big one has dropped off !! The smaller has lots of dried flaky skin and can't really tell if there is still anything underneath yet. Whole foot seems to be peeling now - yuk - anything worth applying ?