soonermomma Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 My daughter has a bunch of small warts on her hands. I read a thread recently that suggested a medication to take by mouth to help get rid of them, but I can't find the post through a search. Does anyone remember what is was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I can't help with the oral medication, but my daughter had small warts on her toes that we couldn't get rid of until we used banana peels! We just cut off a chunk of banana peel, put it over the wart, and covered it with band-aids at bedtime. Her warts were GONE within 2 weeks and have not returned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I'm very interested in an oral med for this, too. My kiddo has a plantar wart that we've been struggling with eradicating. Banana peels - what a good idea. That one's out for us, as kiddo is allergic to banana (it's related to latex, he's also allergic to that)... I'll be watching for more tips! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I've read about the duct tape treatment - glad to hear it really works! Do you just put it on the wart, then leave it on? Nothing else? That sounds so ... easy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 If you can't use banana peel, saturate a small piece of cotton with apple cider vinegar and cover the area with duct tape. It will take a few weeks but the wart will come off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReneTL Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 After spending about $300 going to a dermatologist, Thuja pills worked wonders for us. It is a homeopathic remedy and they are little white pills that dissolve under your tongue. They don't have a bad taste at all. It might take 3 or 4 tubes before the warts go away (at about $7 a tube, that's still better than a dermatologist!) Good luck. Peace, Rene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim in Appalachia Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 You can take Tagamet (or any generic brand). It can take time, but it usually works. My ds6 took it for 2 months, but it finally got rid of the warts on his face. All of my kids have taken it at one time or another for warts (they are on a swim team). HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 In addition to duct tape and the usual salycilic acid, there's also grapefruit seed extract. I have successfully used this on warts (it helps to keep it covered with a bandaid or duct tape, but the liquid tends to make things fall off) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy in Indy Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I tried all of the above and many other things (including freezing, food grade hydrogen peroxide, apple cider vinegar, Vit A) before breaking down and asking my doc for Aldara. It's expensive but worth absolutely every penny. It never hurt and worked wonderfully. I am thankfully wart-free again! I'd try other things before Aldara but if you don't get rid of it or more show up, get treatment ASAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 This might sound weird, but duct tape works too. You just keep it on there until the wart comes off (about a week). I didn't believe it, but I tried it and it worked! I've tried this and it didn't work. I have a, to quote the dermatologist, "rare flat wart." I've had it for years and years and it will NOT go away. I've had it frozen by doctors several times. Keeps coming right back. Ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaton Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I've used the ACV before, and it takes a week or two - sometimes up to a month (I had a flat/plantar wart at the end of my thumb that looked like a callous that would NOT budge with freezing)... It works but it hurts... I'd recommend coconut oil or the grapefruit seed oil... the tricky part is keeping it on a cotton ball or something to keep the adhesive (band aid or duct tape) to stay on (the oil will keep it from sticking in many cases) - and you really do want to smother it with as little oxygen as possible. The coconut oil is what I've used on children before and it worked beautifully. It takes a little longer with coconut oil, but eventually the "root" or ball of nerves does fall out and it is pretty painless. ACV made my whole hand throb. I've heard that some people experience very little to no pain at all... but, for me (it was pretty giant) it was extremely painful. Coconut oil is a great option... I also recommend eating/taking some with it... It needs to be first/cold pressed and maybe unfiltered, though... In order for the properties to help. I've never tried the Thuja that was suggested, earlier... That might be worth checking out. Is that what you were looking for? Or have you still not found your answer? Be blessed in your endeavor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfgivas Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 what a great group of folks we have here! lots of good ideas. our last few rounds, we used duct tape after applying OTC wart medicine, and for our brand of warts, it has worked wonderfully. fwiw, ann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myra Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Our local dermatologist warned us off of duct tape - he felt that introducing the "chemicals" from the tape wasn't something he'd be willing to do to his own children and so wouldn't recommend it. Just a thought, Myra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anita in NC Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Compound W. I've used it before and it works great and it is cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datgh Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Liquid band aid worked for us here. Just keep applying it to the wart so it is always covered. Within a week the warts where on there way out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Tagamet is the otc pill. It didn't work for me, but I had a very persistent case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimtaxi234 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Liquid band aid worked for us here. Just keep applying it to the wart so it is always covered. Within a week the warts where on there way out. Thanks! I'll give that a try since I have a bottle in the cabinet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara in NH Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 My son & daughter have both had worts and used oregano oil. My daughter tried tea tree oil & I understand it works for many people, she has sensitive skin & it was too harsh. Both found that by applying 1 drop of oregeno oil to each wort worked great, neither one covered the wort. Both had more than 1 and it took 2 or 3 weeks depending on the size of the wort. Neither has had the worts return. They were very turned off by going to a dermitologist to have it frozen, or burned or cut off. The oregano oil worked great for both of them. I wish I had known about it when I was young. I went through all of the above methods w/a dermitologist before I finally got rid of them and it was painful and stressful, especially the cutting off. Sounds like you have some great ideas from the group. Blessings, Barbara in NH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 (edited) My son had a wart on his little finger. It grew and grew and grew. We used compound W on it for weeks and...it just grew and grew and grew. I didn't know any better so I took him to the doctor. Not that I don't like doctors necessarily, but I didn't know how hard it was to get rid of warts. I thought they could remove it like a mole, and it would be over in one visit. He saw the pediatrician 3 times. He saw a skin doctor 5 times. That was $160 in copays alone. Sometimes they froze it, and sometimes they put acid on it, but the wart just got bigger and bigger and bigger with each treatment. Finally, I stopped going to the doctor and did the following: Washed the hand. Put petroleum jelly on the delicate skin around the wart (delicate because of the 8 episodes of freezing and burning of good skin around the wart.) Filled a bowl full of apple cider vinegar and had him put his warty finger in it for 20 minutes. I would have preferred longer, but he's a wiggly child. Dried the hand. Doused a tiny piece of cotton in apple cider vinegar. Taped the piece of wet cotton directly onto the wart with duct tape. If the tape fell off, we'd douse some more cotton and put it back on. Every couple of days, he'd soak the hand in the vinegar again. He never had that tape off for the entire time we treated him at home. The goal was to keep the wart away from air and light for as long as possible, and for the acid in the apple cider vinegar to work it's magic. After all that money, and months and months of treatments at the doctors' office, the wart finally came off with the vinegar-duct tape treatment in about 5 weeks. All of this just finished up about 2 weeks ago. Edited November 12, 2011 by Garga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb in NZ Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Vitamin E capsules worked for DS#2 when he had warts on his fingers. I thought about trying the duct tape method, but getting duct tape to stick to tiny 7yo fingers was way too hard. I got Vitamin E (100iu) supplements & had him take one a day by mouth for a month. His warts were gone in a fortnight & have never returned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfcartmama Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 This might sound weird, but duct tape works too. You just keep it on there until the wart comes off (about a week). I didn't believe it, but I tried it and it worked! :iagree: worked on a plantars wart for us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Our ped told me that the goal in wart treatment is to alert your immune system. Basically, all of the topical treatments just cause an irritation that then clues in the immune system to an intruder. Your immune system does all of the heavy hitting of actually killing off the wart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Thuja Occidentalis pills from the health food store worked for my husband's prolific Plantar Warts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alenee Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Thank you for this thread! Dd and I both have one each on our hands and I have a plantar wart also. I'm trying the ACV on me first. Hope it really works! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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