Seeking Advice on Getting Rid of a Wart

this will sound crazy... but it worked for me. I had 2 warts on my fingers through high school - 4 years! and when I went to college, my roomate had this book of "remedies" and we tried it, and honest to goodness, the wart was gone in 2 weeks,and I have never had one since (that was in 1987!). It's a crazy remedy, and we did it with an apple, but I just looked it up on line, and someone else did it with a potato and it worked for them. I copied their remedy, and it is very similar other than the apple/potato thing. It sounds crazy, but it really worked!!! Really!!! The key, like she says is that you have to "take" the potato (or apple). That was the hardest part for me - really had to go outside my comfort zone on that one (rightfully so), and I will never forget the moment. We had a huge apple orchard near our campus, so we drove by and I got out and took an apple from there... I should have left them a $1 or something... but anyway, hopefully I have given back to someone else along the way!! Anyway, here it is... and good luck.
INGREDIENTS: An Irish Potato, A Dish Rag ( IT HAS TO BE ONE THAT IS BEING USED AND YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT WITHOUT ANYBODY KNOWING ABOOUT IT OR TELLING ANYBODY THAT YOU TOOK IT)INSTRUCTIONS: tAKE AND WASH WARTS WITH WARM SOAPY WATER DRY, CUT POTATO IN HALF AND RUB THE FRESH CUT SIDE ON THE WARTS, THEN TAKE AND RAP IT INTO THE DISH RAG TAKE AND BURY IT IN YOUR BACK YARD (REMEMBER THE KEY IS TO STEAL ONE THAT IS BEING USED AND DON'T TELL ANYBODY OR IT WILL NOT WORK) WHEN THE DISH RAG AND THE POTATO STARTS TO ROT YOUR WARTS WILL
START DISSAPPEARING. IT HAS BEEN PROVEN TO WORK. I TRIED IT MY SELF WHEN I WAS AROUND 12 YEARS OLD AND I AM NOW 36 AND I HAVE NOT EVER HAD ANOTHER ONE.

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Hello,
A wart is a virus. Use tea tree oil. I would saturate a band aid and put it around the wart so it is constantly in contact with the oil. That should do it. Time will vary everyone will be different. You can purchase tea tree oil in a health food store with a dropper. Just don't contaminate the dropper my touching the wart with it.
have a wonderful day!
L.

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Get an Aloe plant. Cut the leaf down the side and squeeze out the gel. Put the gel on the wart and cover it with gauze. Do it once a day until its gone.

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Tea tree oil. It dries out the wart and doesn't come back. Also bust your childs immune system with a real good mutia vitamin. A wart is a bacteria that is in the body.

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warts are viral and it is in the blood stream. that is the reason it keeps coming back. if you want to look at natural ways to cure the symptoms from coming back look at a website called native remedies. diet,stress are factors that trigger certain responses in our body. you want to eliminate things can trigger the warts like things that he eats. some things that are good for viral deficiencies are lysine,zinc and watching things called arginine's which are chocolate,peanuts,seeds and other nuts. things that are high in lysine are most vegetables,legumes,fish,turkey and chicken. good luck.

My son had one and i bought compound w bandaids and it was gone in three days. his friend got one used my band aids and his was gone quickly as well.

If you've tried over the counter stuff and it keeps coming back, i would just make an appointment with a specialist and have them take care of it. I had them when i was young and they just got more painful the longer my parents waited to take me. Once they did, he took care of it in one visit and that was that!

My son had one on the palm of his hand. We did clear NAIL POLISH. Put a coat on every other day or every third day....It really worked. It took about two weeks. (we weren't as regular as we should have been,) it got dark then came off like a scab. So far he hasn't gotten another one.

This may sound strange, but use a banana peel. Just cut a small piece off and put it under a band aid. I had a wart that a dr tried to "freeze" off and it came back. Then someone told me about the banana peel and I tried it and I don't remember how long it took, but the wart went away and I haven't had any problem since. Something about the chemistry of the peel draws the skin up and the wart comes to the surface.

Hi L.,

I just went through the same thing with my 3 1/2 year old. My doctor told me just to use Compound W - over the counter wart removal. He told me to put vaseline around the outside of the wart, to protect the skin, and then put the compound W gel on top of the wart - then cover it with a bandaid. The box says to use 2 times a day however my doctor said to use only once at night before she went to bed. The wart was gone within 1 week and has not returned. The only other thing that the doc suggested if it didn't go away was freezing.
I hope that this helps!

It may not be the quickest but Dr Scholls wart remover 'bandaids' work. You use them every other night. You put the medicated disc on and then put a cover over it. Repeated use every other night does take them away.

L.,
My five year old had a planter's wart on his foot. We tried the over the counter "Freeze" and we tried Compound W - no luck. My peditrician tried freezing it with what was called the "snowball machine" ....nope, this thing was a keeper. Finally went to a foot specialist in Exton. He put some medicine on it - covered it up - I think we put some medicine on it too and 3 weeks later it was gone ---no pain. Good luck

My son had bunches on his hands...dermatologist gave him a prescription for tagamin (i think) and duct tape...in 3 mo. most were gone, in 6 mo. all were gone. This was several yrs ago. They still are gone.

My daughter had one, on her ankle. It went away on its own, after a few yrs.

Dear L.,
When my daughter had a wart on her foot that would not go away (it got to be the size of a dime), we went to a homeopathic doctor. He looked up her "constitution" and determined the deficiency that had to be rectified. It took only one treatment (two doses) and her body started to get gid of it. It started to change and within about ten days, she could pick it out. It's like the thing died. I have seen the same remedy at Wholefoods (not sure the dosage is as strong). I don't remember what it's called, but if you ask the folks that work there, they will be able to get it for you. Ask for the 30c dosage if possible. Good luck!
N

My son had one on his toe 2 years ago that wouldn't go away with over the counter meds. I brought him to the pediatrician and he froze it off. I would go to his doctor and found out what options he recommends.

I had warts on the bottom and side of my foot and they spread, causing discomfort when I walked. I had heard that garlic is an antibiotic and decided to try something. I cut a sliver of fresh garlic and placed band-aids in an X over it to keep it in and wore it for 3 days and nights: I changed the band-aids, putting a fresh sliver of garlic each night and morning. The warts were GONE and have not returned! Hope you find the right cure for yourselves.

Hi L., My oldest had one of those too. We finally found out that if you use the wart remover bandaids a couple of times it does get rid of it completely. You may have to cover the medicated bandaide with regular one though...they don't stick very well! Good luck!

I've heard nail polish works.

I've heard of the banana peel too, but, have not had warts on which to try---couldn't hurt!

Hi L.

Get yourself a bottle of iodine and put it on the wart 2-3 times a day til the wart goes away. Don't know why or how but this actually works! I've done it on a wart I've had and my husband used it to get rid of a bunch of them he had on his leg.

Good luck... it may take a week or two.

go to the pediatrician on it. my daughter had them on her feet and wouldn't go so we had them removed surgically.