Tricetachloric acid for verruca treatment?

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Has anybody used Tricetachloric acid to treat lesions? One of my clients referenced an NHS site that mentioned the use of this acid. I have had no luck finding the product or anything related to it's use and am interested in case there is a product more effective than those I am currently employing (Salicyclic acid and N2O). Thanks.

 

Be very careful with using such chemicals. OK, yes, I have never used it, but the reaction to it can be unpredictable apparently.

Did you know that verruca treatments are one of the most litigated areas of work!

If you do use this stuff, make sure that your customer signs a consent form and you give them an info leaflet! Even if you are doing things correctly, in the event of things going wrong, it is much easier for your legal defence team to defend wrt both a court and the HCPC!

If I am wrong on this, I am only too happy to be corrected, but due to side effects of such treatments, and the poor success rate of treatments anyway, that's why a lot of chiropodists do not treat VPs.

 

Hi Simon,
Appreciate the words of advice; the absence of info on the use of this acid is in itself telling.

 

i used monochlor and trichlor solution a lot on vp's . they are very strong and the treatment can be very painful. the safest way to use them is on the end of a silver nitrate stck which mitigates the strength and forms a black scab under which the vp is destoyed over 2 or 3 treatments.

 

Thanks for the info plevanszx1; I am assuming that the quantities you need to use are very small if they are being applied on silver nitrate stick?

 

you vary the amount of solution by the amount of time spent using the 'loaded' stick . use for longer on heel but minimally on non wt/bearing surfaces and i/d. eventually you get a 'feel ' for amount of time. if you have not applied it for long enough you will simply carry out more treatments . so err on
side of caution with this nasty but effective material