PH Doctor advice....
Discussion
....I just need a little advice. It's not life threatening or anything hence just the advice I'm after!!!
I've got a wart on the base of my thumb and I've been treating it many ways to remove it. I've tried using a home freeze kit which was a lot of crap and then I had the sodding thing cut out....and then it came back!
So now I'm using salicylic acid to remove them. It hurts like hell at times and I've been using it now for 4 weeks at the end of this week.
I've been religious about the the acid treatment removing the dead skin every couple of days when it comes loose with some tweezers and I make sure I disinfect them over a paraffin burner after each treatment to make sure I don't bring back the same infection from before. I also wrap the wart up in a plaster constantly to avoid infecting other parts of me and others.....
My question is how do I know the wart is gone and how long should I continue treatment with the salicylic acid?
Some websites say 4 weeks; others say 2 months!
What would any PH doctors recommend (or previous PH'ers who've done this treatment).
Ta,
BB
I've got a wart on the base of my thumb and I've been treating it many ways to remove it. I've tried using a home freeze kit which was a lot of crap and then I had the sodding thing cut out....and then it came back!
So now I'm using salicylic acid to remove them. It hurts like hell at times and I've been using it now for 4 weeks at the end of this week.
I've been religious about the the acid treatment removing the dead skin every couple of days when it comes loose with some tweezers and I make sure I disinfect them over a paraffin burner after each treatment to make sure I don't bring back the same infection from before. I also wrap the wart up in a plaster constantly to avoid infecting other parts of me and others.....
My question is how do I know the wart is gone and how long should I continue treatment with the salicylic acid?
Some websites say 4 weeks; others say 2 months!
What would any PH doctors recommend (or previous PH'ers who've done this treatment).
Ta,
BB
The most effective treatment is also the most painless - DUCT TAPE!
Stick a piece of duct tape over the wart every day, leave it on all the time, (change it regularly, obviously) and the wart will soften and break down as the tape retains moisture in the dead skin. Eventually (6-8 weeks) the wart should have broken down sufficiently to allow the immune system to recognise the wart virus, and munch it up.
All other treatments, whilst effective, are not significantly better.
Stick a piece of duct tape over the wart every day, leave it on all the time, (change it regularly, obviously) and the wart will soften and break down as the tape retains moisture in the dead skin. Eventually (6-8 weeks) the wart should have broken down sufficiently to allow the immune system to recognise the wart virus, and munch it up.
All other treatments, whilst effective, are not significantly better.
When you dig out the old dead skin, does it look like ordinary skin underneath? I had a big thing under my big toe and i'd ben treating it for months and months. Everytime I thought it had gone, it came back.
I had to continue with treatment until I was burning normal skin at the bottom of the hole. Once this was reached I made sure that it was all gone by continuing for another week. I also found a black tap root in there which hurt like hell to touch. Once this burnt out it never came back.
Keep on going at it for a while longer and it will go.
I had to continue with treatment until I was burning normal skin at the bottom of the hole. Once this was reached I made sure that it was all gone by continuing for another week. I also found a black tap root in there which hurt like hell to touch. Once this burnt out it never came back.
Keep on going at it for a while longer and it will go.
Z4monster said:
When you dig out the old dead skin, does it look like ordinary skin underneath? I had a big thing under my big toe and i'd ben treating it for months and months. Everytime I thought it had gone, it came back.
I had to continue with treatment until I was burning normal skin at the bottom of the hole. Once this was reached I made sure that it was all gone by continuing for another week. I also found a black tap root in there which hurt like hell to touch. Once this burnt out it never came back.
Keep on going at it for a while longer and it will go.
It definitely doesn't look like normal skin underneath.I had to continue with treatment until I was burning normal skin at the bottom of the hole. Once this was reached I made sure that it was all gone by continuing for another week. I also found a black tap root in there which hurt like hell to touch. Once this burnt out it never came back.
Keep on going at it for a while longer and it will go.
When I remove the dead skin, the surface below is very tender and white. I also read the "roots" don't actually carry the virus since it only lives on the surface of the skin.
http://dermatology.about.com/cs/warts/a/warts.htm
Article said:
The Wart Root Myth
Contrary to popular belief, warts do not have "roots". They only grow in the top layer of skin, the epidermis. When they grow down, they displace the second layer of skin, the dermis. They do not grow into the dermis. The underside of a wart is actually smooth.
The Appearance of Warts
Warts normally grow out of the skin in cylindrical columns. These columns do not fuse when the wart grows on thin skin such as the face. On thicker skin, the columns fuse and are packed tightly together giving the surface the typical mosaic pattern. Black dots can sometimes be seen in a wart. These are actually blood vessels that have grown rapidly and irregularly into the wart and have thombosed or clotted off.
Contrary to popular belief, warts do not have "roots". They only grow in the top layer of skin, the epidermis. When they grow down, they displace the second layer of skin, the dermis. They do not grow into the dermis. The underside of a wart is actually smooth.
The Appearance of Warts
Warts normally grow out of the skin in cylindrical columns. These columns do not fuse when the wart grows on thin skin such as the face. On thicker skin, the columns fuse and are packed tightly together giving the surface the typical mosaic pattern. Black dots can sometimes be seen in a wart. These are actually blood vessels that have grown rapidly and irregularly into the wart and have thombosed or clotted off.
My brother had a wart on his finger, Mum tried everything to get rid of it (he was 11 at the time) until someone at school recommended something called Echinacea (spelling?), it's this natural remedy stuff you normally take to boost the immune system and it apparantly also helps get rid of warts. Was quite expensive, I think she bought a bottle from Holland and Barret, but it worked really well and he hasn't had any warts since then (even though he stopped taking the stuff years ago).
This might sound a bit weird and old wifey style, but years ago i had a wart on my thumb, and had tried just about everything on the market. Then one of mums friends suggested licking it first thing in the morning, before cleaning your teeth or using mouthwash! It worked, it was gone within a month, and hasnt come back since.
Several years ago I had a couple on my fingers; I tried Bazuka, the home freezing kits and a scalpel blade (I even put local anaesthetic in my finger and had a good go at them then, it didn't work but hurt like a b
d once the local wore off!) and none of them worked. I got a friend (who's a dermatologist) to have a go at them with the proper freezing kit and it worked a treat. The degree of freezing was several orders of magnitude greater than the puny home freezing kits could achieve and within a couple of attempts they disappeared within a few weeks. I'm well chuffed and haven't had any since.
I'd recommend speaking to your GP to see if they have the proper kit (some do!) or if they can refer you to a dermatology clinic who can have a pop at them. I'm a doc and can vouch for the fact that this is a perfectly reasonable reason to be referred to a dermatologist (just make sure the story you tell the GP includes things like 'affecting my work/sleep/sex life' or that it's causing you lots of stress - they love that kind of st! 
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Failing that just rub a potato on it and then bury the potato by the light of a full moon, that's supposed to work too!
d once the local wore off!) and none of them worked. I got a friend (who's a dermatologist) to have a go at them with the proper freezing kit and it worked a treat. The degree of freezing was several orders of magnitude greater than the puny home freezing kits could achieve and within a couple of attempts they disappeared within a few weeks. I'm well chuffed and haven't had any since.I'd recommend speaking to your GP to see if they have the proper kit (some do!) or if they can refer you to a dermatology clinic who can have a pop at them. I'm a doc and can vouch for the fact that this is a perfectly reasonable reason to be referred to a dermatologist (just make sure the story you tell the GP includes things like 'affecting my work/sleep/sex life' or that it's causing you lots of stress - they love that kind of s
t! )Failing that just rub a potato on it and then bury the potato by the light of a full moon, that's supposed to work too!
SiH said:
Failing that just rub a potato on it and then bury the potato by the light of a full moon, that's supposed to work too!
Bl00dy alternative therapists - take some half-baked theory and fill in the blanks. What SiH suggested will never work.You've got to bury the potato in the roots of an Oak tree.
kidding
A sycamore really
kidding again
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