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The Efficacy of Duct Tape vs. Cryotherapy in the Treatment of Verruca
Vulgaris (the Common Wart). Focht DR,
Spicer C, and Fairchok MP. Arch Pediatr
Adolesc Med 2002; 156: 971-977.
Comment.
I know that this is
definitely not a perinatal or neonatal topic, but I just couldn’t
resist the temptation to review this study.
It seems we now have 102 Uses for Duct Tape!
In case you’re interested, the duct tape was removed every 6 days,
and the wart was soaked in water and debrided with an emery board or pumice
stone. The duct tape was then
re-applied after 12 hours. Don’t
try this on genital warts! ABK.
Date: 16 Apr 2004
Time: 15:22:08
My son had a large wart that had been under treatment for two months using
compoundW with little results. I was told about using duct tape and so that
very day I applied the duct tape and by the next day the wart was falling
apart. By the second day I can only describe it as having completely killed the
wart and moved to a healing phase. It was all healed within a week. The wart
went from a large hard pencil eraser object to what I can only describe as
shredded.
UserName: Craig Warthen
Institution: Arrow Electronics
telephone: 303.824.3613
email: cwarthen@arrow.com
Date: 26 Apr 2005
Time: 20:45:09
Comments:
As this is an experiment for someone, I couldn't help in sending my results. I
had 3 warts on my hands for months, and I even went to the doctor twice. there
were two doctors that did not want to tend to them as they were afraid of a
rather large one being on my cutical. After finally finding a doctor to tend to
them, the "freezing" process was effective, but only shrunk the warts enough for
them to grow back later in the month. My GRANDMOTHER told me of this method, as
she used it as a little girl. I tried it, and it was better than anything I had
ever tried. Much better than sitting in the waiting room for something so
simple! It works PERIOD. If the test prove positive results or negative, I have
PROVEN it a true method of curing warts. I randomly changed the tape as I felt
nessecary; being maybe twice a day. To save people the embarrasment of having
duct tape on one's hand, tell them it was a "papercut" that wouldnt stop
bleeding and duct tape was all that you had as you were out of band-aids:)
UserName: Pearson Warren
Institution: Auburn University
telephone: 256-777-7284
email: warrejp@auburn.edu
Date: 18 May 2005
Time: 09:15:39
My Human A&P teacher was talking to us about warts and we all wanted to know how
to get rid of warts. She said that someone had once told her that if you put a
small piece of duct tape<just enough to cover it>on a wart and cover the duct
tape with a bandaid, it would go away in a week. She said she tried it and it
worked. So just a few days ago, my little cousin had a wart and my aunt didn't
know what to do because all the medication that she had given her didn't work. I
told her to let me take care of it, so I went about the process as told by my
teacher and within days, the wart had fallen off when the duct tape was removed.
I believe that old people think of strange things but then again, they tells the
truth.
UserName: Laura Johnson
Institution: School
telephone: 662-673-1343
email: jadah06@yahoo.com
Date: 24 May 2005
Time: 04:01:45
I had 3 warts 2 on one foot heal and 1 one the other foot under the 2 middle toes. It felt like i was walking on rocks and had me in tears every day. Had no medical and no money. and a friend told me about duct tape and i laughed. and said i will try anything once. let me tell you it was so bad i could walk at the end at all. i put duct tape on my feet. and one week later i am pain free and wart is so little i am a believer. true and true.
UserName: Janine Varian
Institution: home maker
telephone: 419-209-0903
email:
mystery_star69@hotmail.com
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