Re: A wart or something else?

Brian wrote:
> Speaking of cryosurgery....isn't that basically what that freeze off
> stuff is? I mean, I know it isn't exactly the same thing as liquid
> nitrogen. It's butane, I think (that's what it smells like anyway) but it
> gets plenty cold (cold enough to sizzle on contact). I wouldn't think
> liquid nitrogen would be any more effective than that and I'd have a
> medical bill to boot.

If you're talking about canned "freeze mist", don't bother. Liquid
nitrogen is MUCH colder, and the canned freeze won't do squat to your
wart or whatever. It's usually one of the freons; a can I have here
says difluoroethane, which is Freon 152.

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