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Quick Health Advice – Warts and Verrucas
At any given time, about 10% of the UK population have warts, which costs the NHS a staggering £40m a year in treatment. In this exclusive guide, Dr McKenna discusses the various types of wart – from the common wart to the genital wart – and advises on both preventative measures and treatment options available, to ensure that these little blighters will blight you no more.
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hey Im 16 years old and on the pill. i have sex with my boyfriend evry weekend i never use a condom because its VERY uncomftable and becomes very painfull. Do i have an STI because recently iv found a few cysts down below, could this be a STI ? and how can this be treated? how do i go about it ? im too scared to talk to my mum or anyone about this. the only way i can see my GP is if my mum will take me. PLEASE HELP ASAP Thanks x
I have a large deep rooted verucca on my left food i have had it cut out and taken down and frozen and even tried herbal treatments. it causes me great pain and i have given everything ago vinegar . tea tree im beginning to eel i would have it forever and im now developing another one
hi i have a massive wart on my hand at the bottom of my index finger and it is so embarrasing and i dont want to hold hands with my boyfriend in case i give it to him of he feels it. ive frozen it 8 times using wartner but it isnt going! HELP!
Hi.I found this remedy quite by accident but it worked a treat on the warts on my hands and it may work on your verrucas. Soak your hands/feet in hot water with biological washing powder. When the dead skin is soft, scrape off as much as you can with a foot file or similar (I used a fruit knife – just sharp enough to SCRAPE not cut) Repeat each day. Eventually, you get down to the core and it just seems to die off. I discovered this some years ago when I went camping for 2 weeks and was hand-washing clothes each day. The warts had gone by the time I came back home.They've never come back so I must have killed them off. Hope it works. Good luck!
i have had a veruca on the bottom of my foot for about 2 years now and it wont go. i have used wartner and it wont work it gets smaller but doesnt to anything else. help please ?
I suffered with veruccas for 15 years and what I ever I did they would not go away. It was only once I was diagnoised with a form of anemia which led to regular B12 injections that they went. The same thing happend to my brother. It could be a coincidence but I thought it might be worth mentioning.
my eight year old daughter has 2 warts one on the side of her foot and the other on her big toe she says its verey painful for her to walk on we have tried everything to get rid but they dont seen to be going shes had these for a year our gp has been freezing it also give us some salactol but she wont flie it down has she says it hurts too much please help
Im 15 years old and have 5 verrucas on both feet for about 7 years and ive tried freezing it myself and my doctor frozze it for me but they have never went away and just in the past year they have managed to spread to my fingers but i frozze them and they finnaly went away but im worried in case the verrucas come back on my feet and do u know what i could do to get rite of the ones i have right now because it is very embaressing and i have to wear socks to bed when im staying over at friends. any advice please ?
My 8 year old daughter has 16 warts on her feet and one hand, and they are spreading. I have tried all the creams, freezing, tape, banana skin nothing works. Please help what can we try? Also watched the programme with the little girl who had warts on her feet and it turned out she had a low immune system, how do you get this checked?
I've had trouble with verrucas and small round areas of rough skin on both my feet for about 5 years now. the cluster of verrucas are on the 'pad' just under my big toe on both feet. Recently i tried using a silver nitrate stick to get rid of them, as it worked on a large one i had a few years ago. It's worked on one of the large areas (about the size of a 20p piece) but not the other and i'm not sure what to do next as nothing seems to work.