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Use Duct tape to remove warts 10/14/2002 Associated Press
CHICAGO -- Duct tape, the all-purpose household fix-it with hundreds of uses, can also remove warts. Researchers say over-the-hardware-counter duct tape is a more effective, less painful alternative to liquid nitrogen, which is used to freeze warts.
The study was reported in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
In the study, patients wore duct tape over their warts for six days. Then they removed the tape, soaked the area in water and used an emery board or pumice stone to scrape the spot. The tape was reapplied the next morning. The treatment continued for a maximum of two months or until the wart went away.
The duct tape irritated the warts, and that apparently caused an immune system reaction that attacked the growths, said researcher Dr. Dean "Rick" Focht III of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
He said researchers did not test other kinds of tape, and so they cannot say whether there is anything special about the gray, heavy-duty, fabric-backed tape.
Pediatric dermatologist Dr. Anthony J. Mancini of Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago said he uses a form of duct-tape therapy for warts. He combines duct tape with a topical, over-the-counter wart remover for nightly treatments.
"The whole point of this is a non-painful approach," said Mancini, who was not involved in the study.
The study was conducted at the Madigan Army Medical Center near Tacoma, Wash. It began with 61 patients between the ages of 3 and 22, but only 51 patients completed the study.
Of the 26 patients treated with duct tape, 85 percent got rid of their warts compared with 60 percent of the 25 patients who received the freezing treatment.
Researchers did not test the duct tape on older adults and also did not study whether warts recurred.
The apparent curative powers of duct tape are no surprise to Tim Nyberg, one-half of the Duct Tape Guys, who write books and perform comedy about the adhesive's allure. Nyberg said he and his duct tape partner, Jim Berg, do a shtick that includes duct tape wart removal.
"It's the universal panacea," Nyberg said. (Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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I found I had a verucca about 15 months ago. Having just spent a painful 2 years treating the last one, I googled before I started this time. the sites I hit suggested that 50% of them clear up on their own and that of the rest, only 30% respond to any form of treatment anyway. So I decided to ignore it.
It went last month.
Claire
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In article <aojmoq$4h...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>, perd...@mcc.ac.uk says...
> I found I had a verucca about 15 months ago. Having just spent a painful 2 > years treating the last one, I googled before I started this time. the sites > I hit suggested that 50% of them clear up on their own and that of the rest, > only 30% respond to any form of treatment anyway. So I decided to ignore it.
> It went last month.
To continue the thread of healing testimonials: I had a lot of tiny veruccas on one foot, and a big one on the other foot. They all disappeared simultaneously within the space of about a week, and I have no idea why. I hadn't used duct tape, piss, liquid nitrogen, acetic acid or any combination of the above.
In article <3DADEB32.3010...@shereen.co.uk>, Shereen wrote: >Claire wrote:
>> I found I had a verucca about 15 months ago. Having just spent a painful 2 >> years treating the last one, I googled before I started this time. the sites >> I hit suggested that 50% of them clear up on their own and that of the rest, >Do you mean to say that all that suffering [1] I went through as a >child at the hands of the nurse was unnecessary?
Not at all - how do you think they train nurses ?
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>> I found I had a verucca about 15 months ago. Having just spent a >> painful 2 years treating the last one, I googled before I started >> this time. the sites I hit suggested that 50% of them clear up on >> their own and that of the rest, only 30% respond to any form of >> treatment anyway. So I decided to ignore it.
>> It went last month.
> Do you mean to say that all that suffering [1] I went through as a > child at the hands of the nurse was unnecessary?
From the point of view of you, probably. From the point of view of the Crool Nurse, not at all.
>> I found I had a verucca about 15 months ago. Having just spent a painful 2 >> years treating the last one, I googled before I started this time. the sites >> I hit suggested that 50% of them clear up on their own and that of the >> rest, only 30% respond to any form of treatment anyway. So I decided to >> ignore it. >> It went last month.
>Do you mean to say that all that suffering [1] I went through as a >child at the hands of the nurse was unnecessary?
Yes.
>[1] Involving razor blades, scrapers and nasty drops that burnt the >surrounding skin and eventually left a great big hole in my foot when >the verucca came out.
Me too.
The house where it all happened (which was a chiropodists then) is on a main road in Warrington and has a black door and I still remember the experience most times I drive past.
Claire
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In article <aols4j$1sf...@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>, Claire wrote: >The house where it all happened (which was a chiropodists then) is on a main >road in Warrington and has a black door and I still remember the experience >most times I drive past.
Stan Cartwright ?
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