A 48-year-old member asked:
What is the treatment for verruca?
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Dr. Michael Fisheranswered
Dermatology 33 years experience
Warts: Each night before going to bed soak a cotton ball in apple cider vinegar, apply it to the wart and then hold it in place with a band-aid. Leave it on all night, or if you like, 24 hours a day but change the soaked cotton and band-aid each evening for a week. The wart will swell and may throb as it reacts with the vinegar and then start to turn black within the first two days and in two weeks gone.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
Verruca's, what do you do for this?
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Dr. Libby Putnamanswered
Podiatry 13 years experience
Several treatments.: You can try over the counter plantar wart removers, but be careful: i've seen them do more harm than good. Other options your doctor might offer include cryotherapy (freezing the wart), electrocautery (burning the wart), laser treatment, or several different topical chemical treatments. If the treatment is typically uncomfortable, your doctor can numb the area before proceeding.
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Last updated Feb 12, 2016
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