wart on finger?

bombidol

theres something on my finger that looks like a small wart. Is there stuff you can buy in the chemist to lash onto it?

*Sassy*

You can get an acid-type liquid which burns it off, but there's another product called Wartner that freezes it off and is supposed to be better. It's slightly more expensive than the acid.

ETA: You will have to use either one for a while, it doesn't come off after one use. Plus you should get the pharmacist to have a look to mke sure it is a wart.

Einstein

yeah cant remember the name of it, but its freezes the little bugger over 6-10 days i think...works too!

28064212

Go to your GP, he can freeze it off with liquid nitrogen. Stings a bit, but you olny need to go once, it'll be gone in a few days

Sarky

Cut it o- Whoops, wrong forum...


I've found the burny stuff (damned if I can remember the actual name) to be the most effective, actually. It'll kill the skin it's put on, so after a week or two you end up with a dead wart that just falls out. I seem to remember the cold treatments as taking longer. I imagine it's more expensive than a wee bottle of over-the-counter solution that'll deal with any other warts you get in the future, to boot.

johnnyc

ok i aint a herbalist are anything but i know this plant that grows in pebbley ground that removed all my warts i can post u a pick of it if you want it. this aint a joke

Dagon

Just get a dandelion, and use the creamy milky stuff from the stem. My mother swears by it

*Page*

go to your chemist and ask for some lemon essential oil! this will get rid of the wart and should cause no bleeding (bleeding is how they spread)

Goodshape

Cut a spud in half and wipe the juices on the wart. Forget about it and it should be gone in a few weeks. Did the job for me anyway - something about the starch-content.

vibe666

according to my g/f she says that for any illness present in the family (warts, stutters epilepsy etc.) there is someone in the family has 'the cure' for it. not sure exactly how to tell or what they do, but she's convinced. silly mare!

anyways, the only way to be sure is a hacksaw. from the elbow should do it just to be safe.

failing that, you've got plenty of other ideas to go on here.

iMax

Whatever you do, you wouldn't want to be masturbating for the next couple of weeks...

LegacyUser

go to the chemist and show it to them, they'll give ye something for a few yoyos you can apply to get rid of it, but it may reappear again.

check out www.warts.ie for info.

Beruthiel

quit with yer crap suggestions please
B

imax
read this forums charter

fattax

salactac or salactol or something is quite good.

otherwise its off to the doc to get it freezed off. i had a fairly sizeable one frozen off my hand about 8 yrs ago, still have the scar. effective though, they never come back!

28064212

fattax wrote:

otherwise its off to the doc to get it freezed off. i had a fairly sizeable one frozen off my hand about 8 yrs ago, still have the scar

Scar? I've had a couple of fairly large ones frozen off, but never left a permanent mark. Skin goes black for a while when the wart dies, but always goes in a week or two. How big are we talking?

fattax

28064212 wrote:

How big are we talking?

about a half cm diameter, on the back of my hand between the little finger and my wrist. i had two or three done at that stage, of which that one was the biggest, and they have all left scars. nothing too noticable, but they're there.

bennyc

I had about 13 of them a couple of years back my GF bought them for twenty cent you keep the twenty cent and never spend
Told her she was nuts when doing this.
Whatdaya know forgot about them for a couple of weeks and they just seemed to dissapear overnight

I did try a few things from the chemist nothing ever worked

marshmallow

salactol is more for veruccas afaik.. wartner is a freezer you can buy in the chemist. it works after a few applications, worked for me a few years ago anyway..

Oryx

Spend a few quid going to the doc. It amazed me how quick the docs treatment got rid of them. And you will be sure it is a wart you are dealing with. The chemist cures dont work all the time, you have to be reallly good about reapplying it and not getting it on normal skin.

Magic Monkey

marshmallow wrote:

salactol is more for veruccas afaik.. wartner is a freezer you can buy in the chemist. it works after a few applications, worked for me a few years ago anyway..

Salactol is for both warts and verucas.

Canis Lupus

Back when I was a kid I had one on my finger and it didnt go anywhere after ages of chemical use. So I just took a stanley knife to it. It got rid of the wart and it didn't take all that long to learn how to adapt to having 9 fingers afterwards either........

decob

about a year or so i had a couple of warts on my hands, tried loads of things from the chemist and none of them did anything, was all set to go and see about getting them frozen off. Went googling the process and stumbled across something that actually worked. Duck Tape. Small strip of tape wrapped around the wart 24 7. 2weeks later wart was dead. repeated process for another 3, all gone within a month

Rabies

I had two warts before.
One I removed when I was messing with my brother and scrapped my hand off a stone wall and ripped the wart away from my thumb. Part of it was hanging on with some skin. Pulled it off.
The second wart I removed myself over a period of a week or two. Used a rough nail file to smooth the edges a little each day and sniped bits from it with a sissors. Would bleed a little most times but would try not to cut too deep each day. Wasn't long before I had it cut out.

LegacyUser

snail, rosebush, thorn.

rub snail on wart, put snail on thorn.

its an old wives tail but apparently works.
I dont know if snail slime has any properties that actually cures warts,
perhaps it does. If so maybe you dont need to harm the snail.

This is the poor mans option, obviously.
Just walk into a chemist....

CaptainPeacock

Get Duofilm from the chemist. You use an emory board or sandpaper on the wart to wear it down and apply the Duofilm as often as you can. Leave it (the Duofilm) somewhere you'll remember to use it often.

The stem of a dandelion does work, too. Split it over the wart. You'd have to do it repeatedly, though, just like with the stuff from the chemist.

gsand

Just go to the doctor for the nitrogen treatment-easier than 1/234082384398 products which may or may not work...

I wont lie, it hurts a bit and often you get a blister but usually within a week itll be sorted.

Capt'n Midnight

IIRC warts are caused by viruses that stay outside the body to avoid the immune system. Used to have one ages ago, eventually it went away.

Hugh Hefner

As far as I know, warts are benign tumours.

Creamy Goodness

atm i've a wart too on the palm of my hand.

I'm using salactol and after 2 applications (once a day) the wart is definelately retreating and i'd reccommend this salactol, it's about €6.95 and worth every penny

Pet

Hugh Hefner wrote:

As far as I know, warts are benign tumours.

You don't know very far then...

Victor

Pet wrote:

You don't know very far then...

Please keep us in suspense!

Google. Some warts / similar infections do appear to become malignant (cancerous). http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/mmi/jmoodie/hpv.html#Mucosal%20HPV%20lesions

Hugh Hefner

You tell him Victor! *does hoochie mama finger click*

And from that same link:-

These viruses cause warts (benign tumours) of keratinised squamous epithelium, ie. skin.

So it would seem Capt'n Midnight and I are both correct.

Easily_Irritated

ewwwwwwwwww

*Page*

the only thing that did anything for me was the lemon oil. my mam is big into alternative remidies. i used the essential oil for about 4 weeks and my 3 warts on my hand died and fell off.(with a little help from me i used to stick heated pins through it since i couldnt feel anything.)