budget remedy for plantar warts

[tinaninea]

Thanks for the vinegar update! I'm going to try it. I have one on my middle toe. Actually it's on the spot right between my toe and my foot & I'm having a lot of trouble taping it, I think I'll just wrap my whole foot.

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

I'm so grossed out and simultaneously fascinated by this thread.

Yah on the contagious part-that was how we caught them, at the community pool. I'm a biiiig fan of water shoes now. We had ours lasered off, and it HUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRTTTTTT!

I got mine in the locker room in high school. My mother told me to always wear flip flops and I didn't listen

I'm completely psycho about water shoes also. My 2 y.o. is about to start swim lessons, and I told DH that if they don't let her wear water shoes before, during, and after the lessons then we're going to go someplace else. I've had this wart for like 2 decades now, and I've tried EVERYTHING under the sun to get rid of it. I don't want my child to end up with the same problem.

 

[Saratoga Souris]

ANother vote for the tape.

 

[ado121]

i got a wart on my foot when i took a prenatal yoga class.

BIG MISTAKE!

i tried duct tape, otc medicines, zapped by the dr. and finally resorted to getting it cut out and zapped at the same time by same dr.

PAINFUL!

limped for a week, couldn't work out for a month (couldn't wear shoes for at least 6 weeks) wore sandals all thru the winter. big ugly scab grew.

and a week ago, IT CAME BACK!

i am so mad. so frustrated. then i read on the internet (not always true so i hope there is a solution) that when you get warts in pregnancy, they NEVER go away!

so now i have this ugly thing on my foot (black root showing now) AND an ugly scar from the cutting of it.

 

[Dopey420]

My Doctor also recommended Duct tape when cryotherapy doesn't work.

As reported by the Mayo Clinic:

"In a well-publicized 2002 study, duct tape wiped out more warts than freezing (cryotherapy) did. Study participants who used "duct tape therapy" covered their warts in duct tape for six days, then soaked their warts in water, and gently rubbed warts with an emery board or pumice stone. They repeated this process for up to two months or until their warts went away. Researchers hypothesize that this unconventional therapy may work by irritating warts and the surrounding skin, prompting the body's immune system to attack. Today, duct tape is commonly used to treat warts, especially for children who may find freezing painful or scary. It's often combined with salicylic acid."

There is another study refuting the efficiency of duct tape for plantar warts. I used to get them all the time from martial arts mats. Duct tape, banana peel, etc did not work for me. The only good way to get rid of them is to have the Podiatrist remove them with the salicylic acid. My doctor said children are very suggestible. He said telling them that duct tape can get rid of warts rather than burning them off causes the children's immune system to kick in on their owm (psychosomatically).

 

[mommapoppins]

My DH had a wart (not sure if it was a plantar wart, bc it wasn't black just skin colored) on his hand, and we couldn't get it to go away. But one day he was working on the car and his hands were all greasy and the only thing we could find was powdered laundry soap that would get the grease off. Well anyway he said it really burned where the wart was, and the next day he noticed the wart was completely gone. So I have no idea if it would help anyone but laundry soap helped hime. (it was Arm and hammer powdered laundry soap.)

 

[LeslieG]

To those who have used the apple cider vinegar remedy, did it affect the skin around your wart? It seems to be doing something to the wart, but the skin around it is all red and peeling, seems pretty sore.

 

[bradyloganmom]

To those who have used the apple cider vinegar remedy, did it affect the skin around your wart? It seems to be doing something to the wart, but the skin around it is all red and peeling, seems pretty sore.

I'd like to know the same. After trying this method about 4 days, I was starting to notice to good changes in the wart BUT the skin around was red, peeling and so painful I was walking with a bit of a limp!!

 

[jennifer293]

I'd like to know the same. After trying this method about 4 days, I was starting to notice to good changes in the wart BUT the skin around was red, peeling and so painful I was walking with a bit of a limp!!

Mine was more painful during the days of using the vinegar, but it will eventually just dry out and fall off.

 

[budbeerlady]

DD's turned red and peely, she said it didnt really hurt. We used rice vinegar as that was all I had in the house. We put it on right after her bath at night when the skin was softer, took it off in the am and she worn nothing but socks during the day.

This last one is really close to being out, its all scabby looking and ughhh, but atleast this works. I let her soak in the tub for a while each night to soften the skin.

 

[islandbabe]

Ok, what if your wart has sort of calloused skin built up over it? Did you all cut any outer layers of skin off before putting on the vinegar cotton ball or should I just go for it?

 

[LeslieG]

So it looks like what the vinegar does is kind of pull the wart to the surface? Is that what everyone else's is looking like?

 

[trishamo3]

Has anyone ever heard of Molluskum Warts? My son( 13 ) has them on the side of his chest, and on his chest. They are flesh colored warts, they have like a shiny appearance to them. The Pediatrician told us to go see a Dermotologist. After 3 sessions of him spraying the freeze stuff on them, which my son screamed about, they are only a couple gone. I am going to try this duct tape, vinegar, or anything else. The Dr said it could take like 3 years for them to go away. Summer is coming, my son wants to swim , without looking like he has some funky disease. The Dr's said these are very common among children. So, if anyone has any other method I would appreciate it.

 

[budbeerlady]

Ok, what if your wart has sort of calloused skin built up over it? Did you all cut any outer layers of skin off before putting on the vinegar cotton ball or should I just go for it?

Some people take a pumice stone to it after a shower, I didnt with DD, I had to be able to not scare her for life about these things. We just kept putting the vinegar soaked papertowel taped to the wart over night on it. (Bad Mom confession, it was a cluster of 4 warts together so it had been there for a while. I didnt know I had to look at DD's foot bottom, I had no idea untill she said it hurt. )

 

[eh24fan]

My duct tape won't stay put!! I want this wart gone! It has been there for like 4 years and nothing else has worked. So, I want to do the vinegar/ duct tape method. But I can't get the stupid tape to stay during the day, even with no vinegar and cotton ball!

 

[MickeyP]

If you're not fully grossed out by the warts yet, how about a cheap home remedy for hemmorhoids?

 

[JackJack08]

My mom just had success using Compound W. I didn't think it would work on plantar warts but she just had a little pea sized "bump" pop right out of the middle of the wart. It is now not painful and is healing over.

 

[jennifer293]

My duct tape won't stay put!! I want this wart gone! It has been there for like 4 years and nothing else has worked. So, I want to do the vinegar/ duct tape method. But I can't get the stupid tape to stay during the day, even with no vinegar and cotton ball!

I used medical tape..the white kind and wrapped it all around my toe with the vinegar soaked cotton.

 

[jennifer293]

Ok, what if your wart has sort of calloused skin built up over it? Did you all cut any outer layers of skin off before putting on the vinegar cotton ball or should I just go for it?

You can scrape it off with a pumice stone

 

[michellekl]

those of you not into the duct tape, i had luck with using moleskin. place the moleskin on the wart, then every few days the wart will have moved closer to the surface & part of the wart will be removed. if you have a stubborn wart that doesn't stick to the moleskin, scrape off the raised part with a glass foot file. i wouldn't suggest using a pumice, because you're probably just reinfecting the pumice with the wart virus. & they are super hard to clean because they're so porous.