Comments on: Duct Tape Good for Wart Removal

By: ELAINE

ELAINE — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:28:04 +0000

i have flat warts all over my face and body. recently read that burning them with a match stick would work. i tried it on body last night but my skin flared up and now the warts look larger than they were. does anyone know if this is normal?

By: stupidwarts

stupidwarts — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:11:56 +0000

i must have a crazy tolerance for pain because i went to my dermatologist to have my warts freezed once every 2 weeks for like almost 2 years. i had them on my fingers and on my feet. all of them eventually did go away with freezing, but like most of the people who have posted, they come back. guess i’m somewhat lucky because only the biggest one (the first one i ever got) came back recently. i was “wart-free” for a good few months so i’m not complaining. i think i’ll try the nail-polish method and duct-tape method on this one stubborn wart which won’t go away unlike the others. i’ll keep everyone posted…

By: ItsMee

ItsMee — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:19:57 +0000

HI, im 17 and when i was like… 5 ish i had a wart on my knee [of all places] and i lived with it until i was about 12 or 13. then i finally cryed untill my dad got it frozen off…lol… well like the people before me, this HURT LIKE A BITCH but it worked….. about 7 months ago i found nother wart but it was on the side of my left big toe….. and it MULTIPLIED!!!!
i was in utter shock, so i looked it up and found out it was probably a common wart and that most warts are actually CONTAGIOUS!!! can u believe it, warts are mildly contagious but i also heeard that they go away after a while… well 8 years is too long for me to wait… i like flip flops… i think i get how to do this ducktape thing…
Wish me luck =D

PS….. i also found out that most people either have an imunity to warts, or get imune to them after having one……. ITS A LIE!![for me at least]
i counted more than 11 on my big toe and now i have another on my pinky toe….. this PISSES ME OFF!!! why do i have to be an exeption to the rule, huh? w/e lol

PSS….. i have a real laugh read all those messages before me, took me a while to get through them but i managed. most of you had some interesting information aand u cheared me up a bit from my delema, THANK YOU!

By: johnn

johnn — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:56:13 +0000

funny you say that nothing “bloody” works, because that is exactly what you need to do to remove the wart: Get bloody.

Duck tape works the same as acid, freeze or nail polish. The burn off the skin to get to the roots, but they do not remove the roots. You will have to dig the roots out yourself with something sharp. There will be blood.

Of course you could keep trying stuff that doesn’t work. Would you rather have months agonizing over remedies that don’t work or five minutes of agonizing pain?

I’ve read these posts above and they’re a bunch of BS. I’ve done everything at the same time and I always arrive at the same place: The roots.

By: xchloex1

xchloex1 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:04:31 +0000

What is the nail varnish trick?? As the duct tape keeps falling of..my wart..well i have no idea wt type it is etc..but its disgusting and on the top of ma foot..i have covered it away since the end of the summer..and its starting to annoy me as i have made up so many lies about it! I have cut it of, burnt it of, been to the doctors and nothing bloody works.so now im trying all these weird method..i just put loads of nail varish..clear of course..on it..hoping this will work..the duct tape i reckon would work but i can get it to bloody stay on and i shower like twice aday so theres no chance it will stay on during them!! I might try the old irish trick..rub raw bacon on it then burry it in the garden lol!

But yeah.someone tell me more about the nail varnish thing??
Also how did the duct tape stay on your foot for such a long period of time..i cant get it to stay on for an hour!..

By: ArAssistant

ArAssistant — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:16:21 +0000

One other thing: I tried to go to the website that many people mentioned. It is the one that supposedly has pictures on it? rr22 or something? Anway, the page has been deleted and is no longer avalible. I wish it was around still because I would sure like to see pictures to make sure mine is actually healing!!! I go back to the podiatrist next week and I am not keen on invasive procedures….

By: ArAssistant

ArAssistant — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:13:50 +0000

Glad to find this site. I have a HUGE wart on my left heel. It started with what I thought was a callous. I pumiced it and picked at it and it just got bigger. Eventually, it started to hurt when I walked on it sometimes and it progressed to hurting whenever I put pressure on it. I went to the podiatrist who said it is a big planters wart and that he wants to try to shrink it before we attempt an invasive removal (?!) So he perscribes Advera cream and instructed me to rub in the cream after showering each morning and then cover it with duct tape. He said to do this everyday. I am now 3+ weeks into this treatment. I find that at times, the wart stings. I am OK with it if it means the bugger is leaving!! Anyway, I noticed that after a day or two the wart became white and looked wart-ish, unlike the way it looked before. Today, 3+ weeks into treatment, I took off the tape to shower and the wart is crater-looking with black dots all over it!!! AAUUGGHH!!! I look disgusting…thank goodness it is on my heel and it is covered. I am thinking about taking the tape off and pumicing it after reading all this thread. Maybe it will “pull” the black out, which, I am assuming, is the roots? Ew!!! This is my first experience with this and it makes me nervous.

By the way, I had problems keeping duct tape on as well, as it is on the bottom, outside edge of my left heel. What solved this for me is I bought waterproof bandage adhesive tape (the white stuff that comes in a roll next to band aids?) Anyway, I put the duct tape on the wart then I place a strip of bandage adhesive on each side of the duct tape. It holds it down and I have had no more problems of the duct tape coming off and I even wear slide shoes occasionally.

One other thing: mine still hurts like a booger whenever I put pressure on it. Since using the prescription cream, it seems to be swelling-like. I bought some shoe insoles, the ones that are just for your heel, and I cut away the part where the wart is. It REALLY helped me to be able to walk on it almost normally! That is good since I am afraid that walking on my toes on my left foot for this long will mess up my hips or something!!
I’ll let you know what happens.

By the way, my podiatrist told me that, yes, it is a virus that hides in the layers of skin and my body does not recognize it as a virus. He said that the advera cream forces my bodies immune system to recognize and attack it. He said that the duct tape merely seals off the area so that the cream stays in place and is not absorbed onto a band aid or the like. After reading this thread, I am hoping that the duct tape does more than that and I am double whamming it with the cream and duct tape!

I think that I am going to pumice it now….and I am going to soak the stone in alcohol before and after pumicing to hopefully prevent spreading the virus through the stone!

By: kenlan

kenlan — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:35:50 +0000

I bought a Wartabater. It’s an electronic wart remover. It removed all mine in one go. It was completely successful.

(bought it at http://www.wartabater.com)

By: meme

meme — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:54:33 +0000

I have an awful seed wart on my foot. Since i do ballet i have blisters all the time so like a normal blister i tried to pop it but it just bled every ware. finally I found out that it was a seed wart (It hurts really bad in point shoes). I have been trying to remove it ever since using a ‘wart stick’ but it hasn’t seemed to work.

Now i think i will try the nail polish with some duck tape on the top. (if there are any ideas why this wouldn’t work or if i didn’t need to do both, I would love to hear from about it)

By: dieselmaster

dieselmaster — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:44:43 +0000

I recently got cryosurgery for a wart on my right knuckle that’s been there for 3+ years (if more). It was pretty deep so the doc sprayed alot of liquid nitro onto it, and a HUGE blister (diameter slightly over 1 inch) formed and kept growing after a week so I had to get it drained.

It took another week to completely dry up, and two weeks for the dead skin to fall off… except that the wart’s still barely there. The entire ordeal lasted well over a month and I’m trying the duct tape now that I see the wart returning.

I vaguely recall having a planar wart on the bottom of my right foot when I was very young and being an adventurous kid, I took a tweezer and firmly yanked the wart, root included, right out of the socket… sounds nasty but it was really satisfying. There was a huge hole there that took some time to fill up. I remember putting transparent tape over it to cover the hole. I also helped my brother get rid of his wart the same way, but he did have some bleeding. This may work for some individuals with warts on the palms of their hand feet, hope this helps.

By: paelana1

paelana1 — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:34:28 +0000

I’m a fairly impatient man. After reading several posts, I,ve decided to have a go at cutting out the wart on the palm of my hand with a pair of clean, sharp, fingernail clippers. I just couldnt bear the thought of waiting weeks for results. It’s been a bit of a bloody mess, but I feel good about cutting away at the thing. I,ve tried cutting away the surface of the wart in the past, but it always came back. This time I really dug deep and pulled out the roots. I’m considering another drastic move too; I may fill in the hole with super glue, That will be sure to suffocate any remains of the little bugger. I’ll post on the status of this later.

By: thecalypsogirl

thecalypsogirl — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:42:29 +0000

so basically ive had this wart on my left pointer finger for about 3 months. its right where the nail cuticle area is and ive been picking at it. now it’s just raw and i can see the insides of it and its not pretty. do i still use duct tape?

do you think combining duct tape and nail polish remover will be more effective?

By: bobwhite

bobwhite — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:04:07 +0000

I had a wart on one of my fingers that was really annoying as it scraped on things frequently.
I bit it off by biting it just through the crusty wart skin all around, but not through the insides of the wart, and then pulled it out with my teeth. The “root” was cone shaped like a waffle cone from Baskin-Robbins.
I flooded the hole where the wart had been with rubbing alcohol (to prevent bacterial infection – I don’t think isopropanol is effective on viruses).
I kept the hole open until it filled in from the bottom.
There is no visible scar and the wart has never reappeared.
I have bitten other warts off my hands with varying results. Most did not come back; some reappeared but gnawing them off got rid of them permanently. I have no warts except the next:
Genital warts are a real annoyance. Newton’s “Warts” seems to be making headway.
According to Social Medicine the kind of genital HPVs that produce visible warts are not associated with cancer. Some other viruses that are of the same class as HPVs but do not produce visible papillomas (warts) are associated with various cancers, including cervical (certain HPVs are closely associated with cervical cancer) and the rare penile cancers.
Visible warts can cause a lot of trouble by chafing and scratching. Penile warts can scratch the lining of the vagina, and vaginal warts can scratch the penis. No fun.
I suspect it was chafing that allowed the HPV to infect my penis in the first place. Pubic hair around her vagina got caught and pulled in, which caused the chafed place on my penis. Though HPVs (and other viruses) can penetrate the unbroken skin, irritated places make it easier for viruses to enter.

By: dre-22

dre-22 — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:02:21 +0000

I tried removing a wart with a razor but it came back with a vengeance. However, I successfully shrunk the wart on the tip of my finger by using Superglue (duct tape kept falling off so I had to try something more convenient!). I had to add more glue every 2 – 4 days because it cracked, & I razored or filed off the dry skin at the top of the wart once a week (being careful not to overdo it & leave the wart raw or bleeding) then put a new layer of glue on. The wart was gone in about 4 weeks.

By: UnDeRcOvEr AnGeL

UnDeRcOvEr AnGeL — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:26:50 +0000

yeah, i’ve had a wart on my thumb for about 9 months now. it really grosses my boyfriend out. about a week ago he told me if i put duct tape on it for a week it will fall off…so i googled it. it took me here. so i just put some duct tape on it. i hope it works. =]

By: sync

sync — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:57:38 +0000

In regards to the comment about duct tape on one wart causing all warts to dissapear, I found a reference to the ability for the immune system to be conditioned to eliminate warts throughout the body. The web page at http://www.aafp.org/afp/20050815/647.html has a section on “interlesional immunotherapy” that indicates it is possible to generate a hypersensitivity reaction that increases the bodys ability to recognize HPV. They don’t use duct tape here (actually, they use Candida skin test antigen) but it suggests a possible explanation for the effect. It doesn’t look like duct tape would be absolutely guaranteed to produce this effect but may certainly be capable of it in some people.

By: K-mAn

K-mAn — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:37:23 +0000

Hi people, as i can see were all suffering. I have this planter wart that has gone horrible. At first i thought it was a calest so i start to scrap it off, but then it bled and hurt like a B*tch. As it got bigger i didnt no what it was since u know this was my first one. My mom bought me Compound W Wart Remover and its NOT WORKING!!! I had this wart for about 2 months and as a skateboard ITS NOT GOOD. I read that duct tape works good. Im going to try it and ill get back to you guys soon. THIS PLANTER WART HAS TOO GOOO!!!!!!!

By: cal310

cal310 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:18:27 +0000

I used to get warts and I’ve tried just about everything to remove them including costly dermatologist visits where they would freeze them with liquid nitrogen or try cutting them off with a surgical knife. All to no avail. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve personally chopped the tops off my warts with nail clippers, bleeding all over thinking that maybe it will go away somehow.

Yes, there are many home remedies like salicylic acid, garlic, nailpolish, duct tape, blood root, to name a few. Sure they are cheap solutions, and are somewhat effective. But who wants to have duct tape stuck to their skin for 2 months and who wants to apply a liquid that may or may not work every day for weeks? After a while, all this can become quite time consuming or costly or perhaps both!

I decided to do some research of my own, thinking that there has got to be a better solution. Sure enough, I found a company called Pristine Herbal Touch with a claim almost too good to be true. They have an all natural product called Wart Mole Vanish developed in asia, which claims to remove most warts, moles, skin tags, and syringoma all in ONE application in 20 minutes. All you have to do is prepare the wart and apply the cream. It stings a little, apparently because it naturally cauterizes the wart. After about 20 minutes it turns black and then a scab forms a little later. The scab fell off in about a week and a half and all that was left was a slight pink spot which went away in another week.

Their website is http://www.wartmolevanish.com for those interested. I think it’s an amazing product and I recommend it to ANYBODY.

I just wanted to spare you all the time and frustration that I went through so that you could benefit from my experience. Hope this helps.

By: neom3x11

neom3x11 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:06:25 +0000

cdw832, where did you hear about the body recognizing the virus? Or can anybody else substantiate the concept of duct taping one wart causing other warts to disappear? That would be amazing, because I have some warts on my fingers and feet I can treat, but I think I also have a flat wart on my face in a prominent area that I am very, very hesitant to treat.

By: bal246

bal246 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:05:33 +0000

this method really does work. i’m a swimmer so walking around the pool deck i got warts. ive had them since i was 8 (im now 17) and ive tried everything. getting them burned (very painful) over the counter treatments (very expensive) garlic cloves, nailpolish, and just about anything else you can imagine.
this method is the easiest and cheapest and not painful at all.
just put the duct tape on the wart, leave it for a few days. take it off. rub with a pumice stone, and if it doenst all fall off, re apply the tape!
i started last week, and 4 warts are completely gone and the rest have diminished significantly in size