What is a home remedy for verrucas? ive heard you can use gaffer tape, is this true?

my son has about 5 in all (i know, i know). we need a free way to get rid as some treatments can cost 12 quid!!What is a home remedy for verrucas? ive heard you can use gaffer tape, is this true?
You can use anything that prevents air from reaching the warts. If gaffer tape does the job, by all means, use it! Check that air does not come in under the edges of the tape.





What I usually use is transparent nail varnish, or quite simply transparent glue for example.





The way this works is very simple: the virus which causes warts is aerobic = it needs air to live. If you prevent air from reaching it, it will die and the wart will disappear. Sometimes this happens rather quickly - one week. Persevere at least 3 weeks.





You will need to check at least once a day - maybe twice if your child is very active - that the layer of varnish/glue is not cracked and replace it if it is. The trick is to keep air from reaching the wart. That's all there is to it.





All the best to you and your son!What is a home remedy for verrucas? ive heard you can use gaffer tape, is this true?
No idea about the gaffer tape. However .................. crystals of Potassium Permanganate, available from your local chemist (ask for them - they come in a little glass jar and are purple) are inexpensive, and if your son is prone to verrucas, the little jar of crystals will keep you going for maybe years!!! You plop a crystal in a tiny amount of water and wait for it to dissolve. Then you 'paint' the purple fluid onto the verrucas with a cotton bud. It takes a few days, but they do go.
You can use banana pith - you know the white bit between the skin and the fruit? Put a little on the verruca and cover with a plaster - not sure how it works, but it gets rid of them in a couple of weeks. I've also heard that gaffer tape is good.
We found the best home treatment was a very concentrated salicylic acid. But it's been a few years since we had any, if we had another one I'd buy the freeze-off OTC stuff. Yes, kids can take it. Mine had it done by doctors, it's no big deal. Why not ask your doctor to do it? I can tell you're in the UK from your question:)
Yes it does work and it saves a lot of money. Just cover the verruca with duct tape and change it every day. After about two weeks the verruca will just fall out because it has been starved of light and oxygen. It also saves you using harmful chemicals and it does work.
They do go on their own, but it takes a while. Help it along by filing them with an emery board after every bath or shower.


However - the best thing I have found, which is cheap and doesn't hurt, is Bazuca. Don't buy the Wartner / freezing treatments - children simply can't take it.
Tea tree oil works, apply it directly once or twice a day. Also the milky stuff from dandelions is a good cure. Just squeeze it straight out of the dendelion stem onto the verruca, making sure you cover it completely, it might need replacing every day or two.
you can leave them if you're not in pain and they will go away eventually but it takes time. instead, try tea tree oil, every day, if no good, you're going to have to splash the case and get one of those things that freezes em off.
file the things after a bath or shower and then use a little neat tea tree oil on them and cover with the duct tape the tea tree will help stop them spreading and cure fungi
colloidal silver. chekc it out online. it really works.