I am pretty sure Charlie has a wart on his elbow. Where would he have gotten it from and how can i get rid of it? Is it a one off thing or something that will reoccure?
Last edited by Antheia; May 31st, 2009 at 07:54 PM.
Im not sure how you get them, but I had one or two as a kid.
You can get a wart paint at the chemist, but we used to put banana skin on ours and cover with a bandaid, or put milk thistle on it.
hi sweet,
first of all don't panic you can see a dr and get it dry iced off, or do it at home from stuff u buy from pharmacy, personally i don't like that and have tried it myself with me but HATED IT! there is other product tooo, one product i used burnt a hole right through my skin not the dry ice.
what u can do and i have done is gotten clear nail polish and kept re-applying it over it to suffocate it as it breathes ya see. IT WORKS!!!!! takes a while like 2 weeks abouts or more depending on size but it works even hubbie has done it and my dd hubbie had small wart like lumps on hand and they all gone now.
My DS (3.5yrs) has a couple on his fingers...so annoying. I am paranoid he is going to infect his newborn sister It was recomended to me that we just use the acid wart paint. It works, but just takes a long time. Doc thought DS was just a bit too young for icing them off, might put him off doctors for life!
yeah think so but keep in mind nail polish is a toxic thing so maybe wait till she is older and if u choose to use it test a bit for reaction. we use clear that way ppl dont know. its good as it suffocates the wart and pretty cheap and no ones knows. but if young child u do have to be sure they arnt gonna suck on it. Thats why its best to wait till older. Do use common sence with this but i do know it has worked for us for me and dd and my husband also.
i used to have one on my wrist and as a student in school it would always get bumped on desks when passing so i did this and it worked great!
No one is entirely sure what causes warts, but one known cause are the papilloomaviruses, and they can be spread by contact. So it is possible your little one came into contact with someone with the virus and caught it.
Warts can reoccur. I had serial warts as a child on both of my hands, and in fact they became so bad that one hand is permanently scarred from their removal. There are lots of home remedies that are known to work - banana skin, covering them with a piece of duct tape is another one. You can buy wart paint from the chemist which is basically a mild acid that burns the top layer of skin and when used for a long period of time will eventually destroy the wart, but it is not always effective. Doctors will use cryotherapy to destroy a wart, where they spray it with liquid nitrogen, which freezes the tissue and kills it, but this can be painful.
I'd act on it now, though, as I can tell you (from bitter experience ) that they do have the potential to spread.
hi mumma2three - if the warts are Molluscum contagiosum then I wouldn't reccomend trying to get rid of them. My son had them and I used the wart paint to take some of them off and they scared quite bad I really should have listened to the Dr.
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you can see a dr and get it dry iced off, or do it at home from stuff u buy from pharmacy, personally i don't like that and have tried it myself with me but HATED IT! there is other product tooo, one product i used burnt a hole right through my skin not the dry ice.
It was recomended to me that we just use the acid wart paint. It works, but just takes a long time. Doc thought DS was just a bit too young for icing them off, might put him off doctors for life!
) that they do have the potential to spread.
I really should have listened to the Dr.
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