Mosaic verrucae-help with treatment

Nice thought, but I very much doubt that Prof Fraser would be remotely interested in immunisations for benign warts. As the leading immunologist and researcher in oncology and carcinogenesis associated with HPV, he has beautifully explained the aetiology and avoidance tactics of the required adaptive response in HPV infection, which has certainly helped us to understand this weak in isolation, but strong in defense mechanisms, complex virus.

It`s now up to the team of microbiologists, managers, and technical experts whose task it is to facilitate the development of these vaccines by utilising the available technology in existing HPV sub-type specific vaccines to ensure that these advances are made available to the people who need them the most. People with benign lesions are not generally regarded as urgent cases for infectious diseases vaccines.....but it will happen. The pharmaceutical companies have already invested in such developments.

 

Brilliant thread - long may it continue

 

Hey, I just wanted to tell you my story about needling (my first posts are in blindas thread about her needling study)

After my first needling procedure there were no resolution of the warts. We did a second and third attempt with about 6 weeks in between. In the third attempt the treatment was done more "aggressive". we needled the two biggest warts with about 200 punctures. After that there was a bit more than pin point bleeding (although we covered the lesions with a swap I got a blood stain in my shoe, luckily I wore old ones). We never did debridement of the eschar because I always was just a few days in my hometown were the needling were done.
About a month after the third treatmant all warts were gone But the areas that were needled looked a bit "elavated"/swollen for a few month. Now the areas are just a bit pink, they look almost like normal skin.

My little sister (15 yeras old) had/has also warts on her foot. 3 to 4 warts were neeedled on one foot in one procedure. We are not shure wether the warts resolved completely but most of them are gone, but there are a few spots that look still a little keratotic. I am going to see her in a month and then we will decide wether another needling is necessary.

Thanks for all the support done by kevin kirby and blinda :drinks

In my opinion this is a very great technique although you may need more than one needling attempt. But in my opinion this method is more than just excision/removal of the wart. This method gives you an ammunation comparable with a vaccination. For me the process of needling and thus obtaining immunation is logical and its also explainable with the current immunology knowledge. O fcourse the immunisation is just against the HPV strain you were infected with. But the fact that all warts will probably clear if the immunisation were succesfull is worth all the effort. By the way the hpv vaccination (e.g. done with gardasil) takes also two to three doses (depends on the age).

So in my opinion a great method that also makes sense in immunologic context.
Keep on going!

 

Today I looked at the feet of my little sister, looks like every wart is gone and no scarring or anything (she had multiple warts on both feet, only on one foot 3 or 4 warts were needled). Furthermore she had the luck that she needed only one needling procedure.

I just can repeat: needling is an interesting and succesfull treatment!

 

I recently added a video on Falknor's verrucae needling technique to my Facebook page for those who want a detailed look at the procedure.

https://www.facebook.com/kevinakirbydpm/videos/962555457175031/

Here it is on Youtube;

 

I had a 15 year old boy with extensive mosaic VPs on his big toe and they have cleared up after four treatments with silver nitrate and paring which caused some bleeding. I have also used the Biogun on it.