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verruca HELP!

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rey · 03/01/2006 11:35

Anyone know of any way in which you can help dd with a painful verrucca (wart on foot)? She has had it for two months now and it looks worse than ever. Tried Buzucca ("...that verruca") but it doesn't claim to help it heal/clear and so seems pointless using plaster to keep it infecting anyone else. Trouble is at times it is painful to walk on. Now back at school and so problem is worse than ever. Can anyone out there help? Wondering about a chiropodist but the books say it will go on it's own and no-one else seems to be bothered by theirs, wondered about doctors but hate going to them and they are bound to say it will just go but how much longer must dd suffer?!

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uwila · 03/01/2006 11:40

I think you can get some gel made by Scholl that is supposed to kill them off. Look in the fot care section at the chemist. Alternativey, I think a chiropodist can help. But, pprobably cheaper to try the Scholl products first.

AuntyQuated · 03/01/2006 11:41

i could have written your post but would have added "we have also tried Wartner" which freezes it off (not). I think that we are going to ring a chiropodist as it is so painful for DD that she is walking on the ball of her foot or limping badly which cannot be good for her posture. since we began treating it i have found out that you are much better off doing nothing and they go on thier own. DDs is LOADS worse since we began interfereing. we have also tried filing it. for the past 2-3 weeks we have left it alone and it isn't any better.
this has prompted me to ring a chirop...i will let you know what happens.

AuntyQuated · 03/01/2006 11:44

oh, forgot to add that we have been to the GP too. first one said that our LHA no longer treat them as they go on their own so there was nothing he could do. we went and saw a diff GP a few weeks later saying that it was affecting her walking and he said exaclty the same

titchy · 03/01/2006 11:45

Go to the GPs and ask fro it to be frozen off. Normally they go away by themselves (after several months sometimes) but if it is painful to walk on then GP should be happy to freeze (and far more effective than over the counter remedies imo).

Be warned though might take several freezing sessions (dd's had hers frozen 3 times over a 6 week period).

zephyrcat · 03/01/2006 11:52

The nurse at the docs where my Mum works told my Mum that you have to cut a piece of banana skin and put the 'wet' side onto the verucca - hold it on with a bit of bandage - best to sleep with it on. It takes about a week but will completely get rid of it!

(My Mum made my sister do it and it worked!)

katetee · 03/01/2006 14:16

hiya
we found painting nail varnish over the top actually cleared them up when all else failed.
It hasn't worked with warts though and my poor dd has had them for 5 years now and GP won't do a thing, trouble is she is at secondary school now (all girls) and Im waiting for the nastiness to start. Anyway good luck, try the nail varnish, you've nothing to lose.

WigWamBam · 03/01/2006 14:21

OK, this is where you start to think I'm mad, but my sister (who is a pharmacist, by the way, not some mad old woman) reckons that the best thing to use is a bit of banana skin. Stick it onto the verucca, with the inside piece to the foot, and keep it there with a plaster. Change it every 24 hours, and the verucca will have gone within about a week. I haven't tried it myself but she has done it with all three of her children, and swears by it.

Don't rely on them going on their own; I had one when I was a child and it lasted for 8 or 9 years - and that was with treatment by a chiropodist.

harpsichordcarrier · 03/01/2006 14:25

sorry this is going to be gross but the only way I got rid of my crop of verrucas was soaking it in formulyn (SP? like formaldehyde but in weak soluntion, bought it fromt he chemists) and then getting dh (dp then) to scrape off the daed stuff every night urgh I know.
reallt NOTHING else worked. I had liquid nitrogen over and over, buckets of bazooka etc. The next step was to have it cut out but it was enormous by this time

AuntyQuated · 03/01/2006 14:43

we have bought the bananas.
watch this space.

emmatom · 03/01/2006 14:51

I used bazooka that verucca thingy cream for a few nights which seemed to deaded the immediate skin around it and then gently used a pair of nail scissors and dug out the offending verucca. Worked well.

MistletAero · 03/01/2006 14:56

banana skins working well for us.

AuntyQuated · 03/01/2006 15:13

MistletAero - how long have you been doing it? is it on all day and night? just put it on dd now and she is whinging a bit - feels squichy!! she's 9 btw

sheepgomeep · 03/01/2006 16:02

I'm sure I reas somewhere that the reason why banana skin works so well is because it contains salicylic acid which is the active ingredient in most of the overcounter treatments used to treat veruccas.

I've had one verucca for 10 years. 5 years later they spread to the rest of the surrounding area of my foot and I had more than 15 on my foot both tiny and big.

I couldn't get rid of them. I tried everything and in the end I was referred to a dermatologist at the hospital and I got some super strength stuff which has worked because they are slowly going. It's taken me a year and a half of treatment to get this far and I found the best thing (for me) was to paint the stuff on, leave it for a couple of days until the skin on the verucca died then cut it away carefully, then rub and rub with a pumice stone and do this religiously.

I must admit I never even thought about trying the banana skin, I'm going to try one on my other foot as I've got a couple on there now as well

biglips · 03/01/2006 16:04

try Tea tree oil and put couple of drops on it per day and see if it worked as i had vercuccas (about 10) on one foot which i had them for 4 yrs, strangely the day i went out to get tea tree oil, they disappeared!!

Docs said the laser doesnt always work but ive never heard of banana skin!

let me know if its works anyone!

QueenVictoria · 03/01/2006 16:11

Ok - this is another wierd one but i found that whilst using proactiv - an acne/spot treatment my warts on my hands disappeared. So i started applying it on my veruccas and they too disappeared.

Proactive has benzoate peroxide (sp?) in it. Thats as much as i know. Definitely worked for me after using bazooka, wartner AND having them burnt off THREE times at the docs. One of them was 1cm across.

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rey · 03/01/2006 16:15

immediate action for now is the banana skin so let me know how you get on with it and I'll do the same! Just as well I love bananas, my dd hates them! Thanks everyone for your time, fingers crossed.

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MistletAero · 03/01/2006 16:19

We tried the bazooka thing, but dd just won't let me touch the verucca to cut away the dead bits - too painful. Also, I often forgot to apply it. Someone on here told me about banana skins and I've been doing it for just over a week now. Twice a day over the holiday, but will only be once now that they're back to school. It seems to act as a poultice - drawing the black stuff to the top and I've just been wiping it away with a baby wipe. The difference is amazing and it was a very huge and nasty verucca! I just cut enough banana skin to fit over it and stick on with a couple of plasters, then repeat the next night.
I also did it with ds1 a while ago and his monstrous thing is virtually gone now (I forgot about it for a while), but am also treating him again now the same way, so I guess it will disappear altogether very soon. Dd's will probably take another few weeks as was so deep rooted.

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rey · 03/01/2006 16:19

Also if banana doesn't work I'll switch to nail varnish! But will give the banana a week or so, so fingers crossed. Then if neither work I'll go to GP with your experiences and demand help!!!

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rey · 03/01/2006 16:22

mistletAero - we were busy typing at the same time so I missed your bit, dd has now run off to tell her bro, feeling very positive, so thanks.

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HellyBelly · 03/01/2006 16:38

OMG, just popped on and happened to see this and am soo pleased I did! Had spread of them for years and last year I had them burnt/frozen (whatever it was) through a specialist at Bupa. He went really deep (although this made me go into surgical shock) so that it was more likely to work. The healing was awful with 8 holes in my foot (got lovely pics!! ) - couldn't walk on my whole foot for a month which wasn't easy with a toddler and toys all over the place. Anyway, sad to say they are now exactly as they were before - no help whatsoever. The specialist said to try and do it again (he would, you should see how much he was paid for it all ) - NO WAY will I ever go through that pain again!!

I'm in pain from the hard bits round them and have been desperate to find something that works (a lot of stuff can't be used on broken skin and mine's very broken).

I WILL TRY THE BANANA SKIN!!!! What can I loose eh?

AuntyQuated · 04/01/2006 09:02

major breakthrough

with banana skin in place it no longer hurts!!!

getbakainyourjimjams · 04/01/2006 09:09

Timely- I have a huge one on my foot- been there for 9 years - decided to have a go at it again last ngiht and was going to go to a chiropodist if nothing worked (I treated it before- didn't work, was told it would go by itself- obviously hasn't). So will try the banana skin.

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rey · 04/01/2006 09:48

Don't you just love mumsnetters! Well, how many of us are now trying the banana solution with fingers crossed? I've lost count. Better than any medical research department! Here's hoping everyone can report back with a smile on their face, in a week or so. Thinking of you all and thanks again to everyone for your replies.

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daisy1999 · 04/01/2006 10:17

we went to the doctors twice. first time they said to leave it, second time I told them it was causing pain and they gave me some acid(?) to paint on. they won't freeze it off in children as it's too painful. The acid shifted it in about 2-3 weeks. We put vaseline around the verruca applied with a cotton bud to stop the acid killing the surrounding healthy skin.

uwila · 04/01/2006 10:55

What do you mean they won't freeze it in children because it's too painful? Don't they use anaesthetic?

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