Wart Remedies (or should I just leave well alone?)
Nik
years ago) He's had various treatments including freezing with
limited success - it got rid of the more annoying ones.
I don't get them - I did as a teenager but seem to have built up an
immunity which dh is clearly to weak to manage <bg>
Now, ds has a couple of warts - one on his wrist and one on his
bottom. Frankly, given his age (2 1/2) I would probably rather leave
them. I'm reluctant to get anything over the counter and don't
particularly want to ask the gp to freeze them off as dh assures me
this is quite painful. Given the length of time that dh has had them
and failed to build up immunity I'm concerned that ds will still have
warts when he enters senior school!
Any advice from those that know more than me?
Nik
Tim S
Hi Nik
Hmm - tricky. Not had warts problems myself, but my incliniation if my
daughter had them would be to get them frozen off sooner rather than later
*or* leave them forever *depending* on location.
Taking the case if there was a facial wart say, then my thinking goes:
a - the other kids at school *will* be vicious little wotsits and are
likely to pick up on things like this and use it to tease the victim to
the point of full blown mental torture which will be worse than the pain
of removal.
b - Fear of painful treatment is usually worse than the actual pain (I
know, I hate going to to the dentist, but somehow I always survive when I
do). My feeling is that it's better to get it done (if at all) when he's
only 2 1/2 and hopefully it will all be over and forgotton quickly.
On the other hand, one on the wrist and a botty based offender probably
aren't likely to be teasing material so if they're not getting in the way,
you could just as well leave them alone.
Are there other treatments? - I seem to remember a caustic substance being
used on a school peer once - he didn't have any complaints about it. Maybe
it wasn't the same type of blemish?
Good luck anyway deciding :-)
Cheers
Timbo
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Amy
"Nik" <nic...@adenley.f9.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi Nik
I had a foot full of warts for some fifteen years, not responding to any
treatment at all, until I consulted a homeopath about an unrelated problem.
She prescribed a homeopathic remedy to suit my "type", and within four weeks
the whole lot had disappeared!
My daughter has had a few, mainly on her knees, which we have treated with
Bazooka, but it can be painful at times. She had an unsightly cauliflower
wart on her chin, but we left that alone and it went after about six months.
She has had nothing since.
Amy
aparent
> Now, ds has a couple of warts - one on his wrist and one on his
> bottom. Frankly, given his age (2 1/2) I would probably rather
> leave them. I'm reluctant to get anything over the counter and
> don't particularly want to ask the gp to freeze them off as dh
> assures me this is quite painful.
The freezing process is absolutely painless. I had a wart on
my pointing finger, just next to the side of the nail, and had
it frozen. Fizz went the liquid nitrogen on a special cotton bud
when it was applied. I happily looked at the frozen wart, and
thought "That's got you, you blighter!". Absolutely painless!
Then, it began to thaw out, and it started to hurt. I abandoned
my attempt to talk to the receptionist (to arrange another
appointment), due to hopping up and down in pain, not wanting
to look a fool, and drove home saying/shouting "Ooooh! AAARGH
OW, OW, OW!!!" and other such words.... it felt as though I'd
squashed the end of my finger with something *very* heavy.
> Given the length of time that dh has had them and failed to
> build up immunity I'm concerned that ds will still have warts
> when he enters senior school!
Quite possible. You can help warts on their way by keeping
them covered up and greased with copious quantities of
vaseline. Another way would be to have them charmed, but
that depends on the person doing it.
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Sarah Vaughan
<nic...@adenley.f9.co.uk> writes
Leaving well alone sounds like an excellent idea to me. I really doubt
that your GP would be willing to freeze warts in a child that young - I
know that at the practice where I work, they don't like freezing warts
in a child younger than 10. (They'll sometimes do it for a younger
child who seems sensible enough to stay still for it, but no way would
they do it in a child of your son's age!)
You could try one of the many preparations, but that means daily
application for what is likely to be at least weeks and quite possibly
months. Sounds to me like far more trouble than it's worth, since I
suspect the warts themselves aren't bothering him in the slightest.
Also, with a child that young I presume there's a risk he could suck at
the plaster and ingest some of the stuff. (An adult from another ng I
read managed to do this recently by accident, and didn't find it very
pleasant at all.)
Chances are that these ones will have dropped off anyway by the time he
starts school, so, if that's your only worry, treating them sounds like
a futile effort. Of course, if he's prone to warts he'll probably have
others by then, but then that'll probably happen whether or not you
treat these. So I would say you're much better off leaving these be.
You can always start treatment when he gets close to school age if you
think there's a problem then.
All the best,
Sarah
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