Wart Removal

D.,
I don't know if this will help but when I was in high school I got planters warts on the bottom of my feet. I had at least 20 at a time, they were painful. Now I don't remember the pain level of the freezing but that is what I had done too. What the doctor did tell me and helped alot, was soaking in hot salt water. Now I'm not sure how that would work with a 3 year old, but it made them get smaller much faster! Add lots of salt to as hot as she can stand the water to be. And soak for 15 minutes everyday. After soaking, I'd have to scrape the dead cells off. when they are soft it's pretty easy to do. This was what I did before and in between the freezing process. I hope my suggestion helps, as I can feel her pain!

K.

Hello,

I am sorry for the pain that your daughter, and in response, you are going through. Long story short, My 7 year old caught Molluscum Contagiosum this past march. You can look it up online if you want as I won't get into details. I have to say that she had over 500 on her body initially and to this day, she has 8. They kept coming and coming and coming. Needless to say, my daughter has had to endure 9 freezing since the outbreak. When the virus lessened, and after trying everything out there, we have been prescribed retinol cream from her pediatrician. This cream is prescribed for acne. What it is doing for our daughter though, is it is applied nightly and shrinking the warts, however slow, day to day. It is a way that we are able to control these warts so as to perhaps not have to ever in our entire life have to put my poor baby through the freezing again. Molluscum sometimes takes 2-5 years to dissapate. You can understand our concerns for the trauma that she has had to endure. We tried everything else that has been suggested to us but the creme seems to be slowly removing them and keeping it under control. I understand your pain. Even talking about my daughter going through that torture for hours, and invisioning her lying naked on that table being held down and having to take her back over and over and over again, is so very upsetting. Try the retinol cream. I pray that it helps. K. P.S. We also had the numming cream, it barely touched her pain and it wore off way too soon. They say that children's skin is more sensetive, I am not sure if that is true, but that is what they told us. Im sorry for your pain and I hope that this helps.

My six year old had warts on his stomach and arms too this summer. Maybe it was a virus too like your daughters. I am surprised that they told you to get them removed. My doctor told us to use acne cream on it twice a day. I uste a cotton ball to put it on and within a few weeks they were gone. It was painless and easy. I hope this helps. Good luck.

E.

Hi, I'm so sorry for your daughter's pain - and yours. I know it sounds crazy, but I've read that coconut oil and garlic will make warts disappear. (Check out Bruce Fife's Coconut Cures or Coconut Oil Miracle) It's all natural, so it's absolutely safe for a child's skin. There was a story in one of those books about a man with warts covering his feet - he applied warmed coconut oil with crushed garlic to his feet and the warts came off in about a week.
Heck, I'd try anything before going through that again - even smelling like garlic for a while!

Hi D.,
There was a study that came out a couple years ago where they put duct tape (because it sticks for a long time) on warts. This was as effective - maybe more - than freezing them. If you google warts and duct tape you should find good instructions on how to do this. It's irritating, but not painful like freezing is. I'm surprised your pediatrician didn't suggest this first - it was pretty well publicized.

Good luck

Something to consider is that freezing doesn't actually remove the wart. It simply irritates it in attempt to kick in the body's own immune system to fight the virus that causes the wart to get rid of it. Roughing up a wart with an emery board and applying a bandaid or duct tape can be just as effective since you're simply trying to irritate the wart and stimulate the body's response.

There is also a by-prescription medication that you can apply to warts. It is not nearly as painful as the freezing.

I would absolutely seek out other methods of treatment since your daughter is so little. There is no reason for her to go through painful treatment again.

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I used waterproof medical tape to remove planters warts from my foot. It had to stay on all the time and it took approximately 6 weeks for the wart to suffacate. I will warn you, it will get very smelly. It is painless however. I am not sure if it would work on regular warts, but I would give it a try.

P.S. My brother used duct tape instead of the waterproof medical tape.

Hi D.- I am a mother of 4 ages 7,5,3, and a newborn. My oldest daught also had warts. They were also frozen with nitrous. Instead of it being sprayed the doctor took a long qtip and placed it on. I talked to here about other things during the process. When it was sprayed it was loud and scarier. Tjhe qtips didn't hurt less but the process was a little less scary. I know it is very different for a three year old but I hope this might help!

Before my daughter gets shots or blood draws (in her arm and leg) and when she had a port-a-cath (for delivery of chemotherapy), we use/used a numbing cream called Emla on her skin. It is by Rx only. It says "lidocaine and prilocaine" on the tube.

You put it on an hour before and then it numbs the area so they don't feel the needle pricks. You simply rub it on and then cover the area with Press 'n Seal (so the cream doesn't wear off on clothes). When the dr needs to access the area, take off the Press 'n Seal and then proceed with cleaning and the necessary procedure.

There is also another thing that the doctors/nurses use when you don't have an hour to wait which is referred to as "freezy spray." Unfortunately, I don't know the real name of this stuff and I don't think I've ever heard of anyone having this at home to use. It seems to be stuff they only have in the dr's offices.

I think you should most definitely talk to the drs about using either of these things...or try harder to come up with some solution!! I am not sure if the Emla would interfere with the wart removal, but it definitely is worth exploring using to ease the pain during the procedure.

Good luck & promise your daughter a really special treat for getting through the procedure. : )

You really received a lot of helpful responses and I hope one of them works for you. However, if they don't, I would ask your Dr. for a mild sedative for your daughter. When my daughter (then almost 2) had to have a catheter inserted for a procedure. I begged them to give her a sedative. I did not want her terrified for life of Dr.'s. Without too much resistance from the Dr. they agreed. She responded to it well. She was awake the whole time and didn't notice when they inserted the catheter. Again, I hope one of the other less scary and painful techniques works.

E.

Hi D.,
We had a wart problem and all we used was duct tape. It was really effective and was the only thing that helped. All we did was put a piece of the tape on top of the wart and leave it there for a couple of days remove it wash and then reapply until it is dead. I would say you should at least ry it before you go through another freezing. Just to let you know or Ped. told us about it....you can look on-line and see there are a bunch of sites that also rrecommend it.
HTH,
R.