Thursday, 24 February 2011
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WART THE HECK?!: A Healthy Use for Duct Tape!
Remember when you were little and frogs/toads were awesome? Remember hopping along, ribbitting, picking one up and playing with it? Your parents telling you to put it down or else you'd get a wart?
Well they were wrong.
The common misconception about warts is that they are caused by frogs/toads. The truth is they are caused by (gasp!) the Human Papillomavirus. But not to worry, warts are only annoying and ugly... not cancerous. There are many types of warts: common warts, plantar warts, filiform warts, flat warts, periungal warts, and the most disgusting of all, genital warts.
If you suspect you have genital warts you should most definately go see a doctor; don't even try treating them at home. If you've been dealing with a difficult just-wont-die wart, it would also be good to make an appointment with the doctor.
I have had this absolutely atrocious wart on my knuckle for about 7-8 months, and it's my first wart ever. I thought I had tried about every removal method known to man until I found this one. And trust me, it will be my go to remedy if I ever get another one. It's as easy as 1,2,3. Here is what you do:
- Get some duct tape.
- Before bed, cut a piece just large enough to cover the wart, tape it, and leave on overnight.
- In the morning take tape off. If wart is dried out and rough, take a nail file* and file it until skin is smooth. Continue this routine until the wart is gone.
Cant find duct tape or don't have any on hand? Improvise! Use the tape on the sides of a band aid.
Have you ever had a wart? If so what remedies did you use? Has anyone else tried this before?
*A pumice stone may be used on the foot area, but I find that a small nail file works better for my knuckle.
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I had a couple on my knee when I was a kid... I tripped on some stairs and they were all scraped clean off... there was blood EVERYWHERE... but hey, it was a lot less scary for my 6 year old self than going to the doctor to have them FROZEN OFF. Lol
I did try duct tape, among other things, and it didn't work for me. You really must leave the tape almost 24/7.
Having them hit by liquid nitrogen, which still ranks among the most painful physical experiences of my life, followed up with wart acid stuff worked quickly and completely.
Compound-W worked for me. Had 2 or 3 warts in elementary and for many years on my hands. I guess my mother didnt know what to do or something, cant remember. I finally used Compound-W, and it worked ok, be patient maby take a week or two, but its worth it right and only put it on the wart,not the skin around the wart.
I had a horrible wart once...3 years. Huge one, on my index finger. Only wart I've ever had, by the way. I tried just about everything...the freeze stuff, the liquid chemical (which only gave me a horrible burn, because the wart grew back.) But duct tape? Worked marvelously well. Seriously, I wore it for 3 days, and the blasted thing finally disappeared.
I did have a friend with a horrid issue. There were hundreds of warts all over her hands. I assume it was a medical condition, but she would spend hours with tweezers trying to dig out the seeds. It never did help her much. I wonder what would have happened if she'd just duct-taped herself like a silver mummy?
I just used an at home freezeitoff thing. I've only ever had one wart :P
My dad used to do this, and it eventually worked, along with those freeze-off treatments. I used to have a couple warts up until 6th grade, when we did a paper mache project. The gluey stuff seemed to make my warts shrink until they were gone.
Strange.
I've never had a wart in my life. Are they painful?
I've never had a wart...thank goodness.
Aaaand that's probably my sister can't get rid of hers. Kept telling to keep it on but does she listen to me?
This is close to what worked for me. I put liquid wart remover on first, then the duct tape, and left it on for days - of course, changing the duct tape and applying more wart remover as necessary. It dries out the wart and it eventually it just falls off.
I had mine frozen off by a dermatologist since I'd tried everything for over a decade. It did not hurt at all, and it's still gone. Huzzah.
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ive had maybe 15 at once on the soles of my feet, some really small others really big. i found this gel stuff in the household medical supplies which said 'removes' warts. see liquid nitrogen just wasnt cutting it, they kept on coming back. i used this gel and they all went away except for 2 motherfuckers. . . im like gtomf.. guess ill go to doctors with those ._____________________.
never had warts but good to know! ^_^
I get warts all the time. Compound W worked for some, others went away with the nitrogen freezing. I was even on a medication usually used on genital warts(they were on my hands though). The medication made them go away. My doctor now won't prescribe it to me, so I don't know what else to try. The warts don't hurt, but the freezing is one of the most painful things I've ever had done.
Such a crock of shi*. I have tried this a bunch and it never ever ever worked.
Yes!!! I tried this remedy several years ago, and it worked perfectly. I think it was 2007, or so, I had a cluster of warts on my hand (around the knuckles.) I would scratch them off, and they would keep coming back. I read about the duct tape thing, and tried it. Basically I left it on for about 3 weeks straight, not taking it off. If it came off, I put a new piece on right away. I showered with it, slept with it, everything. Eventually they were just gone, no remnants, no scar, no nothing. And they never came back! :)
Weird coincidence about the duct tape btw... earlier this evening my parents and I had to rescue 2 geckos that were stuck on a piece of duct tape that was patching up the siding outside. Great for warts but it can be evil! lol. Just in case anyone needs to unstick duct tape, use baby oil! The geckos came loose and are fine now! (just thought I'd add my side story!)
...Now if only there was such an easy remedy for moles. I tried aloe vera but it doesn't work. D: Gonna try Vitamin A next....
just buy the stuff that burns it off. its much more effective.
I had a wart once. One of those home acid treatments worked just fine.
Had a large one inside my left palm for years, took a blade to it a bunch of times, fucker would just grow back. Then I had it frozen and cut off by a derm, didn't grow back. Probably could of just used canned air, though.
haha nice. duct tape win.
I've had several on my hands, and I used to do the whole Compound W thing to get rid of them. It worked, but it took a looong time to get rid of them that way, and my extremely insecure middle school self was mortified by having to wear band-aids every day and risking having people find out about my warts. Plus, they kept resurfacing after a year or two. I finally had them frozen off at the doctor about six years ago and haven't had one since!
Cut a small piece of a potato and secure it over the wart w/a bandaid (or duct tape, lol) overnight. It might take a couple nights but it works. My little brother has used this remedy before and told me about it when he saw I had one on my hand. Worked like a charm.
I got one a few years ago. It was on the bottom of my foot, and it had basically been squished into the sole of my foot. The doctor had to freeze it, scrape the dead skin off, freeze it again, send me home with a scalpel to cut dead wart bits off, and finally I tried the duct tape thing, which worked pretty well.
i had a ton on my knee and i tried everything... over the counter treatments, and the doctor freezing it off (holy shit, it was so painful) but the one thing that worked for me was duct tape... but i added extra. i took a piece of cotton ball and dipped it in apple cider vinegar, squeezed out the extra and placed if over the wart, then covered it with duct tape. it hurts like a bitch but honestly it worked so well.