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> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:17:36 -0500, WordSmith <word...@bellsouth.net>
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Dayum. Sorry about that.
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.)
Claire
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Just in case anyone is interested.
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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> 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.
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>Claire wrote:
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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,
>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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> 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, only 30% respond to any form of
>> treatment anyway. So I decided to ignore it.
>>
>> It went last month.
>
> 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.
Claire
>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, only 30% respond to any form of treatment anyway. So I decided to
>> ignore it.
>> It went last month.
>
>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.
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>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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