finest way to remove warts

From: Archimedes Plutonium (a_plutonium_at_iw.net)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:17:26 -0600

I have been battling warts for years now, about 10 of them. I have 4
remaining; 2 on hands and 2 on foot. I believe I got them when I lived
on the East Coast and using rubber gloves and using rubber massage
sandals.

If not for the cost of a medical doctor to cut off a wart that is the
best means of getting rid of a wart but who wants to pay $200.-$300. per
wart. The cost makes this a nuisance.

Then there is the salicylic acid method. Trouble with it is that it
takes years for it to do anything and the wart seems to manage to grow
back after you peel off or accidentally rub off the white coating.
Perhaps the acid is just not strong enough. And I feel that the
companies that make this acid treatment just do not have an effective
treatment to be worth selling in the first place. I think the FDA should
take all of the salicylic acid treatments off the market as ineffectual
and a gross waste of time and money.

Then there is the recent new freezing method packaged in a cannister
with pads that spray dimethyl ether + propane. I found it very much more
expensive , almost nine times the cost of salicylic acid and less
effective than the acid. Neither the acid nor the freezing removed any
of my last 4 warts and I have used them for years now. I think the FDA
ought to remove both the acid and freeze treatments from the marketplace
as ineffectual and a waste of time and money.

I read about a duct-tape method and never bothered to try it because the
modus operandi is not the tape, for the tape only conditions the wart
but the filing down or the scrapping of the wart once the tape is
removed that eventually destroys the wart. I find that a hot bath
conditions a wart much better than lugging around some tape on the wart.
So it is not the tape that works but the filing away or scrapping of the
wart once it is in a softened condition. So a better technique is to
place the wart in a hot water or even a hot salt water bathe to soften
it and then take the filing tool or scrapping tool to whittle away the
wart and after several such filings the wart is made to disappear.

I tried burning off warts and it works but very painful and it leaves a
damaged larger area than the wart itself.

I tried cutting a wart much like a doctor would only I do not have the
anaesthesia that the doctor has. So this is painful also and then there
is blood to consider.

So I disfavor both burning and cutting.

So I finally have arrived at my personal favorite method. It is quick
and almost absent of pain although there is some pain. Unlike acid or
freezing which takes years and a high cost and then the wart still is
there, this method costs nothing and works in a matter of days or weeks.

What I do is get a sewing needle and disinfect the tip with alcohol and
disinfect large fingernail clippers both the curved edge and
straightedge type.
So I have 3 instruments: needle, 2 fingernail clippers. So I take the
wart and I pierce it as deep as I can with the disinfected needle and I
pry that loose skin upwards. I jab the needle all over the wart and
loosen up as much of the wart as possible, then I take the fingernail
clippers and clip off that loosened skin. I do not force the needle or
fingernail clippers with any pain, for I stop short of pain. Sometimes I
do get a spot of blood from the needle but that is a good sign because
the wart is deep. Warts are deep and that is why the acid and freezing
methods are never effective.

I remember one wart that grew to 4 times its size after applying acid
for about 2 years.

So the needle is the abrasion and the digging deep enough to get at the
full wart and the fingernail clippers sterilized in alcohol removes all
the abraded wart.

I have used this method on 2 of my last 4 warts and will see how fast I
can get rid of them. Once I do I will trashcan the remaining bottles of
acid and the freeze cannisters as -- modern day snakeoil quack
treatments.

The FDA helped remove Vioxx, why not remove these wart treatments as
ineffective time wasting and money losing medicines also. They will not
kill you like Vioxx potential but they will waste your time and money.

Archimedes Plutonium
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