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Lill:
 :frog:

Do you know of a child who has/had warts on his/her hands?

Has the child been teased because of the warts?

Was the child self conscious or feel bad about the warts?

Have other children (or even adults) not wanted to touch the child because of the warts?

Were the child's warts treated? By what methods? Successful?

Was cost a factor in any of the wart removal methods?  Did the child just have to live with it because there wasn't money for meds/freezing/doctor visits, etc.?

Did the child ever try any odd or folklore type wart cures?


Thank you for answers to any of the above questions as well as any 21st century childhood wart stories you are willing to share.

 :frog:

christine:
My daughter had hers frozen off in middle school. No one had teased her, but she didn't like them and wanted them off. One of the remedies Dr. recommended before getting more drastic was taking Tagamet. That did shrink some of them, but she still had a lot. The ones in the cuticle beds were extremely painful to have burned off. Our insurance covered the removal, but if you didn't have insurance it would be pricey - probably in the range of 500 dollars by the time you removed them all. We went to the dermatologist three times before they finally stopped coming back.

No folk remedies for us, but tons of people recommended Duct tape.

andracill:
I had a wart on my hand.  I definitely didn't like it...we had no money, so I just lived with it.  Then (true story, ha), I got a corn on my pinkie toe, and when we went in to have it removed, we discovered a wart beneath it...and they went ahead and froze that (had to be done, so we found the money -- I couldn't wear shoes) -- and the wart on my hand disappeared within a couple of days.

There was a boy in my elementary class who had warts, and no one would touch him.  He was definitely ostracized because of them, and he was pretty poor (poor kid ended up with lice, as well, and that didn't help).

We tried duct tape for my son's wart -- it did minimize it, and eventually, the wart went away on its own. 

lizstraw:
Never had a wart... There is this stuff on the market called Toe Juice (not kidding) - It dried up my poison ivy and it is reportedly good for getting rid of warts.  :)

olmue:
My older daughter got Dellwarzen...some kind of serial wart, I'm not sure what they're called in English--on her arms when she was in preschool. The teacher thought she had chicken pox (it spreads in the same pattern), but the doctor said no, it's just warts. He said he could dig out the centers of them, but they often just come back, so he'd prefer letting the body take care of them on its own so as not to traumatize a little kid. So I did a lot of internet research and read that they can take up to a year to go away, and that if you put duct tape on them, it can suffocate them out or something. So we did it. And they did go away fairly quickly--maybe a month or two. They were kind of unsightly, but the pediatrician said they weren't very contagious--my daughter had apparently very dry/cracky skin, so it was easier to pick them up that way. Luckily it's over and we haven't any any recurrence (going on five years), and the rest of us never got them.

I've had plantars' warts on my feet before--I tried the nasty burn it off yourself acid, and all it did was hurt. Duct tape fell off. So I painted some clear nail polish on every day, and eventually it fell off. But maybe my body was done with it, anyway, I don't know.

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