Duct tape does not work for Warts or VP's

brendanreidy · Feb 29, 2012

Re: Duct tape does not work for VP's

Bug said: ↑

The wart fairy is a close cousin to the tooth fairy. She visits each night while you are sleeping and makes your wart smaller and smaller. When the wart is gone, she will leave a present as she is then very grateful that she doesn't have to visit any more as making warts smaller is very hard work.

On last sighting she was very ugly with purple wings and had a very large lump on her nose which may or may not have been a wart......yes I know, I work with waaaay too many young children with great imaginations but trust me, that fairy does good work.
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She's also a distant relation of the 'Washing Up Fairy', you just test her out next time you do the dishes. Instead of drying the plates and pots and pans after washing up, just leave them on the draining board and go down the pub for a few beers. When you get back I guarentee you the W.U.F. will have been and done that drying up for you..works every time.

(For married guys there's also the 'Picking Up Your Clothes From The Bedroom Floor Fairy' but I'd rather not get drawn into that one if you don't mind).

JaY · Mar 14, 2012

Re: Duct tape does not work for VP's

I had a patient today who presented with a single large VP under her left foot; however she is going on pilgrimage in 2 weeks and therefore I did not want her to be in any sort of discomfort with either sal.acid or cryo therapy. All I told her to do was to apply Friar's Balsalm (tincture of benzoin compound) to the wart, covered with a waterproof plaster every day until she returned from Mecca for me to undertake treatment of her wart.

What do you think of my line of treatment?

Janine

blinda · Mar 14, 2012

Re: Duct tape does not work for VP's

JaY said: ↑

I had a patient today who presented with a single large VP under her left foot; however she is going on pilgrimage in 2 weeks and therefore I did not want her to be in any sort of discomfort with either sal.acid or cryo therapy. All I told her to do was to apply Friar's Balsalm (tincture of benzoin compound) to the wart, covered with a waterproof plaster every day until she returned from Mecca for me to undertake treatment of her wart.

What do you think of my line of treatment?

Janine
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Howzit Janine?

Yep, I can understand your reluctance to apply a caustic/keratolytic prior to such physical activity.

Personally, I would have reduced any overlying callus for comfort and maybe apply silver nitrate (a protein precipitant, to slow down hyperkeratosis formation, again for comfort) before commencing HPV treatment upon her return.

What were you hoping to achieve with the Friars Balsam? It`s use (and abuse) is nicely outlined here.

Cheers,
Bel

NewsBot · Aug 14, 2021

Successful treatment of refractory plantar wart with duct tape
Samantha Shwe, BS et al
VOLUME 85, ISSUE 3, SUPPLEMENT , AB96, SEPTEMBER 01, 2021

Recurrent warts are often the result of a poor to absent immune response from the host and are a therapeutic challenge because no medication exists that eradicates the virus or targets its replication. We report a case of duct tape therapy achieving complete resolution of a persistent, plantar wart that was refractory to multiple treatment modalities for several years. A 22-year-old female presented for treatment of a wart on the right great toe that had been present for over 10 years and refractory to multiple treatments. The examination showed a 2.5 cm × 3.0 cm hyperkeratotic verrucous plaque extending from the base to the middle of the plantar aspect of the first metatarsal on the right foot. Duct tape was applied to the wart over the course of a year and a half, somewhat inconsistently, but with no additional treatments administered other than 2 electrodessication and curettage procedures. The wart gradually reduced in size 10 months after initiation of therapy, and within 1.5 years there was complete resolution of the wart. Four months later, there continued to be no recurrence. Despite variable evidence from recent clinical trials regarding its efficacy, our case showed that duct tape therapy was a successful, relatively easy, and painless means of treating a persistent plantar wart. Its potential to be a primary treatment for cutaneous warts will require further rigorous trials to verify its efficacy as monotherapy or in combination with other established methods.
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Duct tape does not work for Warts or VP's

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JaY Active Member

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Duct Tape therapy for Verruca Treatment

Case Discussion (reposted from "introductions")

Knee adduction moments

Neoprene Diving Boots in Reduction of Feet Injuries

Stress reduction interventions for patients with chronic diabetic foot ulcers

Abducted and Shortened Gait Stride

Toe curling exercises and the adductor hallucis oblique head

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