Warts on my hand

[mar]

I'm surprised no one has this, peel the bark of a hazel tree and rub the inside of the bark, the bit with the sap on it on the wart, it worked for me after trying a whole lot of other things. You would need to be careful with this method as some people are allergic to hazel trees.
Has anyone else ever heard of this method

 

[lim x]

I'm surprised no one has this, peel the bark of a hazel tree and rub the inside of the bark, the bit with the sap on it on the wart, it worked for me after trying a whole lot of other things. You would need to be careful with this method as some people are allergic to hazel trees.
Has anyone else ever heard of this method

No not heard that one...but a similar one is to rub a bit of steak on wart and then bury the steak and as it rots so does the wart, the person with the wart should not see where its buried.

@milkloss Have you got rid of them yet ??

 

[milkloss]

No not heard that one...but a similar one is to rub a bit of steak on wart and then bury the steak and as it rots so does the wart, the person with the wart should not see where its buried.

@milkloss Have you got rid of them yet ??

Silently watching the ideas posted here. Have been doing draining work which seems to cut my hands to shreds so they are too scabby to treat!

I’m not sure which effort to go for just yet.

 

[mar]

No not heard that one...but a similar one is to rub a bit of steak on wart and then bury the steak and as it rots so does the wart, the person with the wart should not see where its buried.

@milkloss Have you got rid of them yet ??

I done the same but instead of steak it was bacon fat, it didn't work

 

[DrWazzock]

+1 for duct tape.

Leave it on/replace it for a week or two. The wart will go, even if the tape is removed before the wart has finally gone.

Don't know why it works but it did for me.

 

[davidroberts30]

Starves the wart of oxygen

 

[Y Fan Wen]

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I had a big one on the ball of my right thumb. Several weeks of the above saw it off. The last few days when the root was dying off the pain was excruciating. I didn't go to bed one night 'cos i knew it would be no use. I asked the doc' if he would cut it out using a local but he refused.

 

[ollie989898]

It's a virus, or rather dozens of differing strains of viruses. As I understand it once the warts are cleared you are infected with the virus forever but it rarely manifests itself again and isn't infectious to anyone else. I've had a verruca many years ago on the underside of my big toe, I basically cut it out with a penknife in the bath one day. I also had a couple of warts on my fingers that stayed for ages, certainly a year or more until one day I went at them using the method below.

Get a nail file and use it to carefully file off the crust or hard white bit of the wart until you get to the 'live' pink fleshy bit underneath- by doing this you have removed the uppermost layers of skin which are in effect already dead anyway so can't be killed by freezing. Apply the wartner by following the instructions on the can. It hurts like absolute hades because there are nerves under there but after the required time the tissue beneath the wart will be well and truly unhappy and blister. Within a few days the skin underneath the blister will be reforming and the layers of tissue the wart has infected will be sloughed off.

If you aren't confident enough to do it, I suspect a kindly nurse practitioner will do it for you at a GP surgery or community hospital, ring them and ask.

As strange as I am this kind of thing is fascinating to me and one of the reasons I can't wait to get my hands on real life people in my third year at med school. Embarrassing bodies has nothing on me.
Lastly, do NOT use the above method on warts or moles or whatever on the face or anywhere sensitive like the genitals. Get a professional to look at those.

I never had much luck with salicyclic acid, I think it is pants. If a wart gets worse or won't clear up despite multiple attempts, get a doctor to look at it, they can be removed surgically which will probably be less painful than the freezing method to be fair.

 

[milkloss]

I can't wait to get my hands on real life people in my third year at med school.

, well done, got a laugh out of that bit!

Seriously though, I’ve got respect for your career change.

 

[Angus]

My hands were covered in warts, well not covered but I probably had a dozen or more. I found them embarassing, particularly as I was courting my wife to be at the time. Nothing seemed to work, I was even referred to the local hospital to see about having them surgically removed

Well, one evening I somehow managed to catch one (read clumsy) and it was bleeding and wobbling a bit. So, out with the Stanley knife and a pair of pliers and off it came. Alcohol was involved. Shortly after they all seemed to melt away, coincidence?

It was painful, but the alcohol induced logic, " I've started so I'll finish" drove me on. I hope you get yours sorted, Angus.

 

[ollie989898]

There really is no reason to be embarrassed by them, it is a virus or collection of viruses and readily picked up for the ride, I am not sure of exactly how the transmit, I assume by breaks in the skin which is normally a very good barrier to these things. They can be quite painful to live with as obviously the hands, fingers and toes etc are well supplied with nerves.

 

[Bruce Almighty]

I had warts on the backs of my fingers as a teenager, I used to bite them off. Eventually they all went.
I then got a nasty wart on the web between my thumb & forefinger on the palm side which was nasty
The vet tried to freeze it & failed.
I had a go with calf de-horning paste & failed as it stung too much
Then I had another go with caustic de-horsing paste & it worked, but the scar is till there

 

[abitdaft]

Steep in hot water and gradually work your way around the softened wart easing up the edges, you can then ease the whole thing out, roots and all. I have also used sandpaper and formalin on a verucca.

 

[Pond digger]

My dad peed on his, and yes, it did work.

 

[Jakem]

Duct tape.

Worked for me aswell, had
1 on my finger and wrapped it tight with duct tape and was gone pretty quick, god knows how it works!

 

[JD-Kid]

anywhere sensitive like the genitals. Get a professional to look at those.

ummmm might be how the warts. got there in the first place that the prob with hiring things the last user may of buggered it

 

[Arceye]

I had a pal who had been in the RAF and invalided out with a faulty heart . He told me he was in the sick bay for tests on his heart functions , and was attended by a rather small built swarthy Welsh doctor . After the examination , the doc said " I see you have a lot of warts on your hands , have you had them long ? ". All my life says he . He said the doctor took his hands in his own , and looked him in the eye very mysteriously and said " Your warts will go , airman ! . A short time afterwards they just went ! He absolutely assured me of the truth of this , and said he'd heard of "celtic wart charmers" but didn't believe the stories until then .

In years gone by people with special powers would charm them, and ringworm in cattle, but you couldn't let on the spell or it would be broken.

I got chatting to a chap who used to be a butcher and had a van delivery service in deepest darkest West Devon. One day he was at his serving hatch and an old lady came along for meat and asked him why his hands were bandaged, he said he'd had a bit of trouble with warts. She held his hands and told him he would have no more trouble from them. In a short while the warts were gone.
Not wanting to get on the wrong side of the dark arts he always made sure that old lady had the best cuts of meat from then on.

 

[Old Boar]

@mar - willow bark contains salicin, the basis of Asprin. Salicylic acid is a known to penetrates pores and dissolves the bonds between surface skin cells. It is also anti bacterial, so would probably work.

My mother used to rub warts with the inside fur of broad beans - worked a treat!

 

[ollie989898]

None of this stuff works; use that freezy stuff. Seriously, it works.

 

[jellybean]

Virkon antec worked for me on the only occasion I had a wart.