Yukky verrucca

[lizziedoggarden]

Well....been using the baz**ka stuff since the beginning of time...and it's still no better Went back to Docs and she STILL won't do anything. Been using this stuff ages and it's really no better.
Not sure what to do now

Shut up and put up..according to Doctor

[madmum]

Hi there!You can buy something called "tincture of thuja"for warts in good health food stores of alternative therapy shops.

[p.penn]

I have also heard banana skins are good. Not tried it though.

When I was a girl I used to have this stick thing dabbed onto them. They then went all white and foamy and eventualy went.

[lizziedoggarden]

You make me laugh Helen..." white stick thing" narrows it down a bit

[lizziedoggarden]

Hi there!You can buy something called "tincture of thuja"for warts in good health food stores of alternative therapy shops.

Hiya, thanks! will get some when I'm out tomorrow

[Mad Chick]

Izzy's verruca's have nearly gone

I bought some stuff called Cuplex Gel (Boots ordered it in for me). I was a bit sceptical because it seemed just like Baz**ka but after a couple of weeks, there was a marked improvement (and no big hard lumps that the other stuff produced). I have now blitzed them with the home freezing stuff and they seem to have gone!

Lucy x

[rhubarb93]

I used to be a pharmacist. Instead of gaffer tape, try 1" waterproof plaster strapping, the type without a dressing. Can buy from any chemist, and it sticks to skin much better than other tapes. Just cover up the verucca(s) to exclude oxygen, and keep replacing it when it comes loose until the verucca drops off.

[lizziedoggarden]

Oooo, think I'll try that Lucy..good to read of something that actually works
Will's got a fleshy colour lump on his now..have tried filing it down as it recommends but doesn't seem to do much
Not sure what to do really..but will try that stuff, and you said about a home freezing kit? didn't know you could get them?

[lizziedoggarden]

I used to be a pharmacist. Instead of gaffer tape, try 1" waterproof plaster strapping, the type without a dressing. Can buy from any chemist, and it sticks to skin much better than other tapes. Just cover up the verucca(s) to exclude oxygen, and keep replacing it when it comes loose until the verucca drops off.

Will's is deep inside the sole off his foot..will doing this bring it to the surface?

[Mad Chick]

The freezing kit was this one...
http://www.boots.com/en/Wartner-Verruca ... ons_44729/

I'd used it previously to no effect but I think combined with the cuplex it seems to have done the job. Mind you though, it's ended up costing a small fortune - why can't these things be obtained by prescription? Or why can't the surgery just freeze them off for children like they do for adults? I had some frozen off as a child and it was such a relief to be rid of them

Lucy x

[lizziedoggarden]

Good old" health and safety" marlarky...

It's also my son's "human right" to be able to have the treatment he needs..absolutely crazy.
My son's school are not allowed to put suncream on my son..but it's ok to let him burn??

Makes me so angry

[lizziedoggarden]

Welll.....a few months of using the verrucca stuff hasn't worked..and it's got sizeably bigger.. It is hurting Will now so got Doc's appt tomorrow morning..surely they will do something for him this time?..

[bluebell]

Is it just the one verruca or is it a cluster??

If only one the verruca needs to be starved of oxygen, your doctor should use liquid nitrogen to damage the verruca and it will die, shrink and hopefully disappear.

It's not right that anyone, especially a child, should have to put up with months of suffering, it must be really sore.

[lizziedoggarden]

Can't really see but looks like just the one..its a big hard lump now..poor Will cried this morning when he caught it with his boot.
Doc I'm seeing tomorrow will hopefully sort it, I won't leave till they agree to do something

Failing that I shall take him to the minor injury unit and tell them my doc refuses to treat it...