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Consultation: Verrucas
Verrucas can be extremely painful and amazingly difficult to get rid of, although many can clear up on their own. It’s probably not surprising to hear that there are 8 million of us suffering from them at any one time! So it’s up to Dr Pixie McKenna to sort out these two patient’s verrucas when they visit her for a consultation.
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I am 23, and like most people i have tried gels, homapathic remedies ect but the verrcuaswont budge!
However after using, this sounds weird, urine on my verruca it almost amediately fell out!
good method, if you don't mind using wee on your foot!
hi there people. i have had verrucas on both my feet for a long while, about 16 in all. there are two big ones which keep bleeding and i dont know what to do about them. it was only recently when i went to my gp and asked her about it that she said that actually i didnt have any verrucas just the mark left over. if ya wanna check to see whether you just have the remaning 'scar' just soak the foot/hand in warm water and them with tweesers or a scalpal (i got one at uni for my med degree) try and find the blood supply ( the black dot) in the fleshy bit of the verruca. if it hurts it is good cos it means that the flesh is alive and there is no verruca there. i really hope this helps . xx :D
Hi There i had a verruca for about 2 years (3years ago) got rid of it, well at least i though i had. one appeared about 8 months ago in the same place (on the heel of my foot) i treated it a few times over the last 2 months. i though it was going. i hadnt caught it or anything was just sitting reading a book, and i felt a very wet feeling beneath my foot. my verruca had just poored with blood. it wouldnt stop so i quikly got a cold compress of cotton wool and cleaned it up. raised my leg above my heart and left it there for ten meinutes but it still was gently pumping out blood, so i raised my legt for ten more minutes and that seemed to have given enough time for the plateletts time to dry.. it bled again but not as much about 15 hours later. im not sure if this is anything to worry about.. but i cannot find any information online about it.
ive had a verruca for about 8 months and ive tried to hide it. and whilst filing my feet to caught it and now it is bleeding. ive stemmed the bleeding but now im worried what to do next.
Hello.
I'm 31 and I had verucca's on my right foot as well as on my fingers for about five years. I'd been going to the wart clinic at my doctors once every four weeks as well as using Bazucca gel in between.
However recently I read somewhere (can't remember were I read it) that tea tree essential oil was suppose to be good at getting rid of them. So whenever I'd washed my hands and especially at night I dabbed some on all the verucca's.
After about three or four weeks they just disappeared. whether it was coincidence and they were disappearing anyway I don't know, but now you wouldn't even know I'd had them.
GIVE IT A GO
It worked for me!!!
Hi guys. Just thought I'd add something here. I had a wart on my finger like some of you guys and had it frozen loads of times – made no difference. I tried "Cuplex Gel" and it worked a treat! The whole thing just came off. The same with my girlfriend too – was pretty impressive. Have a deep varucca on my foot though and it wasn't so effective with that. Worth trying on the finger though. Good luck!
hi i had this problem for years until i tried some crystals called potassium permanganate, i tried bazooka gels and other stuff i painted on from the doctor, well the potassium permanganate are crystals what you dissolve in hot water, look it up on wikipedia! they turn the skin purple so be careful and after a few days i would CAREFULLY! shave them with a razor blade and repeat with the crystals again in hot water. it worked for me!
hello my name is laura im 13 and ive had a veruca since i was 11 years old ! ive tried treating them but nothing works! Its really embarrising! and there have been a couple of more verucas which have appearedjust lately! i really dont know what to do! but i really want them to go! xx
Hi, I am 13 and i have a bunch of verrucas on my left foot and i am really embarrased about them i hate taking my socks off :( Please help! i have tried the gels and they dont work ..
i have a verruca on my right foot but i have tryed to get rid of it with bazka and i have seen my doctor what can i do