I'm using Duct tape for wart removal

[rox]

Years ago I had a Planters wart and let it go as I had never had one before and didn't knwo what it was. I jsut assumed whatever was irritating my foot would get better. Eventually it became very painful and I went to the doctor and then onto a podiatrist. He used a laser to remove it and man did that hurt during it, getting a huge shot with a needle thrown at your foot and the needle, I kid you not must have been 10" long. The doctor took a plug out about the size of a dime and about an 3/4" deep. No way could I put any weight on that area for a good 6 weeks. It was a real pain in the foot.

So now if I have an bumps on my feet I am much more attentive. Went to the doc in France about 2 years ago fearing another plantars wart, turns out it was just a corn. But now I feel certain I have a wart not a corn on my foot. Now we have the internet so I search on warts and was surprised to find that you can use duct tape to remove warts so that is the method I am going for. I'll let you know if it works or not.

 

[jdbower]

Duct tape, it fixes EVERYTHING!

 

[dmccarty]

My daughter had a really bad Planters wart. The doc froze it a couple of times and it just did not go away. She told us to try one of the over the counter wart freezers so we could hit the wart more often and cheaper than office visits. The daughter hated having this done for some reason but eventually we applied it a few times per the instructions and finally that planters wart went away.

I have hard duct tape works. Be interesting to see if it does.

Later,
Dan

 

[Blagadan]

How the heck does duct tape remove a wart???

 

[Dargo]

Hey, good luck to you Rox. That sounds painful!

I can echo dmccarty's post but for different reasons. My German Shepherd Dog kept getting warts right on the end of his nose. These things would get absolutely HUGE if I didn't do anything. The only time I didn't do anything and let one get the size of an acorn the resulting surgery was particularly nasty. The doc had to cut so much out of his nose to get all of the wart that stitches wouldn't hold the incision closed. I had to "try" to keep his nose bandaged (yeah, right!), keep it clean (again; right), and keep antibiotics on it. It took months to finally heal.

About the time it finally healed, I saw another wart sprouting up right next to where the last was. Not wanting to put the dog through that again I sought out the advice of a few physicians I know. Several suggested buying the over the counter freeze along with applying salicylic acid to the wart. Not wanting to spend the money or put the dog through surgery again, I bought some and tried applying it every 5 days for a month. Fortunately that worked great and he has not had another reappear since.

Even more similar to yours, one of my daughters had a plantars wart on the bottom of her big toe. Since she is very active in soccer she really didn't want anything done that would hurt or make her sore, I thought I'd try the same with her toe. I still had the stuff from when I did the dog's nose so I used it on her toe; every five days for a month just like was successful on the dog. I was curious if it would really work because a plantar wart is actually caused by the human papillomavirus. I had reservations if it would work since plantar warts are generally tougher to remove than regular warts. Fortunately, it again worked perfectly. Heck, since it's right downstairs, I'll just take a pic of what I used. It is pictured below.

The Duct Tape method has been around for quite a while and has debatable results. One guy that lived in my fraternity back in college who was also planning on going to med school told me that back home (for him that was Brazil) they used to tie Willow tree bark to the wart for removal. Medically, that is basically utilizing a weak form of salicylic acid; which is derived from the Willow tree bark. And, yes, asprin is basically salicylic acid and was first isolated by a French pharmacist. Good luck!

 

[dmccarty]

Dargo,

That is the same product we used. Was not cheap as I remember it but cheaper than Doc visits.

Later,
Dan

 

[rox]

dargo,
Thanks! I'll be back in Wisconsin on Tuesday and I think I'll try treating with that. It was really helpful to see the pic. I think I'll do both, hit it with the freeze product and then put duct tape over it. I jsut don't want this thing to gat any bigger, it's pretty small right now but I have had it for at least a month. I still remember that big one I got removed so I don't want to go through that again. many thanks for the info I'll pick some up.

 

[Bird]

Aaah, the things I learn on Tractorbynet. I never heard of the duct tape method, so I'll sure be interested in how well that works. And I've wondered about the over-the-counter wart freezing medications.

Rox, I was 16 years old when I had a big plantars wart right in the middle of the sole of one foot. The doctor first injected the anesthesia; two shots; one on each side of the wart. Now this boy had a hard time staying hitched when he stuck that needle in the bottom of my foot. Then he had an electric needle that he just kept punching in and out, burning the wart. That part didn't hurt, but whew! the smell of my own burning flesh was a terrible odor. And it was a big enough wart that I still have a scar there 62 years later.

And like you, it was quite some time before it healed and quit hurting. I still had to go to work in the service station every day, but I was sure limping around.

Many years later, I had a doctor freeze some small warts on the backs of my hands, but there was just almost nothing to that.

 

[Egon]

would that duct tape work on the pinched nerve in my back?

 

[4720 OWNER]

would that duct tape work on the pinched nerve in my back?

If applied correctly!!

 

[absrio]

Try a good alcohol hand sanitizer on the warts. After a few days if it starts to itch it works.

 

[RobJ]

How the heck does duct tape remove a wart???

Hides it, if you don't see it then it's not there.

 

[davitk]

As a teenager I had planters warts on my feet, then when I was 21 they spread to my hands and forearms. The college I went to had an old "war doctor" at the health services, he used an electric needle to burn enormous craters in my fingers, the palm of my hand (don't you dare go there ) and forearms, (ah, yes, the smell of burning flesh ) and it took several weeks of oozing before they healed.

Give me duct tape any day.

 

[sunspot]

Rox, you come up with the darnest subjects and make them interesting. Can I use the Camo Duct tape so I don't get laughed at while at work?

I am treating two warts on one finger with the Dr Scholls dual action freeze away. It's slow going but it is working. Film at 11.

I have also have had a plantar wart on the bottom of my foot for about 10-15 years. I'm going after that one next.

An interesting fact. About 2-3 years ago, I was injecting Interferon into myself once a week for 11 months. Interferon is an immune booster. All 3 warts went away until 6 months after finishing my HCV treatment, and then they came back. Oh well, at least the HCV is gone.

 

[rox]

How the heck does duct tape remove a wart???

The theroy is it jump starts your body's immune system to fight it. I have been duct taping for 3 days now and it is working. I have a definate tingling right ont he art that I can feel. It tingles/itches all the time. Not the surrounding but it seems like right on top of the wart. It is working.
Duct Tape, Emery Boards, and Warts - DrGreene.com
treating warts with duct tape - Google Search=

Davitk & Bird - Just by your descriptions of the burn methods I'm glad I'm not tryng that.

Bird (by the way what it your brothes name? Jsut kind of curious what your mammy and pappy named your brother(s)) When I got my needle injection right smack inside the wart in the center of my foot I was laying down on an examing table and the doctor below on one of those stools on wheels the doctor grabbed my foot with his left hand then I saw the huge long needle and watch him throw it or launch it like a javlin. As soon as it hit my foot I instinctively pulled it back which threw him off his balance on hsi stool. There were a few minutes of "Wait not yet" and "No not yet I'm not ready yet" until he tried again and that time he hit the target. And he jsut kept sticking that needle in deepr and deeper I thought it was going to go clear through my foot. I got so worked up the protective glasss I was wearing ot protect from the laser were 100% fogged up and I could not see out of them. That is how intense my body heated up with the needle in the foot routine. I will say the anistetic worked great I did not feel a thing while he cut out the wart. The doctor had said I could come back regularly for treatment of freezing it or I could go one time with the laser. He said they jsut got the laser over at the local orthapedic hospital and it sounded much more efficient to me and jsut to go once and have it done with. Wow! I'll never do that again if I can help it.

Sunspot- You msut have high tolerance of pain if you can go 10 to 15 years with a plantars wart. I went about 6 -9 months on the one I had lasered out. And it was really big wide across and very deep.

You can see in the first pic the wart is not that big as I no longer will ever let one get big again. Only on TBN do we look at pictures of warts on the bottom of a foot. Are we a crazy bunch or not. And I'm not sure who is more crazy me for takign the pic or you for looking at it I sure am going to try and accelerate this by getting some of the Freeze product Dargo posted.

I got sidracked reading another article on the internet about plantar warts and it says to duct tape a banana peel over the wart so I guess tomorrow I'll go out and buy bananas and take another picture. Potatoes, Bananas and Duct Tape - Uncovering the Facts on Childhood Warts - Nutrition and Health Articles - Preschoolers Today - page 2

 

[Bird]

Rox, my brothers are Joe and Paul. But I got named after my maternal grandfather and never did know where he got the first name of Bird. And when I had that plantars wart removed, Paul (5 years younger than I) had one removed, also. It was quite an experience. The doctor inserted the needle for the anesthetic at an angle toward the bottom of the wart. No problem on mine, except for me trying to hold still, but he did the first injection in Paul's foot, then inserted the needle on the other side of the wart and when he pushed the plunger on the syringe, the medicine squirted right back out of the hole he'd made with the first injection. And the doctor who was wheelchair bound himself, laid the needle and syringe on a small table behind himself without noticing that it stuck out from the edge of the table, so later when he started to back up, he stuck himself with that needle, and let out a little yelp as he quickly moved forward again.

 

[N80]

Warts are a fickle ailment. At least one small but well designed study, done by real dermatologists showed some benefit to duct tape.....which is pretty close to what all other studies have shown regarding all other wart remedies including freezing with liquid nitrogen, lasers, topical immune modulators, etc etc. Bottom line is, alot of things work so-so, nothing works well and in the end, most warts eventually go away on their own....but it can take many many years....I still have a plantar wart from childhood.

By the way, the warts on the bottom of the foot are 'plantar' warts, not planter's warts which is what most people call them. 'Plantar' is just an anatomical term that refers to the bottom of the foot. So a plantar wart is mostly just and indication of where it is. The vast majority of warts, including plantar warts are the same thing, the medical term for which is verucca vulgaris....lovely name for a lovely problem.

They are caused by a virus and they are contagious, but not wildly contagious. But, if you scratch one, and then scratch some where else, then you can get additional warts. A lot of dermatologist wear gloves if they touch them....but then they get to touch a lot of warts.

In some cultures, specifically Carribean and possibly Appalachian, a witch doctor or healer would 'talk' the warts away. Since many warts spontaneously resolve on their own "talking" them off was probably as effective as any other method.

As Rox mentioned, the key is the immune system. Most methods that work mostly just irritate the wart causing inflammation. The inflammatory response triggers an 'immune response' that destroys the wart. Freezing, lasers, gels, duct tape, etc do not 'kill' the wart or the virus....your body does, it just needs that inflammation to jump start things.

 

[Ductape]

Did someone call me ???

 

[shvl73]

Did someone call me ???

I was wondering why you were in France!

 

[Ductape]

I was wondering why you were in France!

For the french fries................ naturally.