Plantar warts..........?
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I am taking a foot reflexology certification course, and learned of a natural way to deal with plantar warts:
Mix some Epsom salts with a few drops of tea tree oil to make a paste. Apply this to the warts and cover with gauze and/or a bandage of some sort. If possible, reapply several times during the day. If not, it's best to apply it at night before going to sleep and then again in the morning.
I haven't tried this personally, but another lady in the class who had plantar warts had success with this method.
Hope this helps! :)
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How Warts Are Removed
In general, the treatment for a wart depends on the type of wart a person has. It's a good idea to have a doctor look at a wart before trying to treat it, especially if it is on the bottom of your foot. Corns, calluses, and plantar warts all can form areas of thick, hard skin on feet, and it isn't always easy to tell them apart.
For some kinds of warts, the doctor may even suggest that you don't need medicines to make them go away. In time, these warts will disappear on their own. Warts can be hard to get rid of because the thick layers of skin make it hard for medicine to reach the virus that causes them. There are many ways to treat warts, but treatments can sometimes be tricky. After a wart seems to be removed, it might come right back.
Sometimes, a wart can be treated with medicine you can buy at the drugstore. These medicines contain mild acid that removes the dead skin cells on the wart. A grownup applies the medicine or you just wear a little medicine patch in that spot. Over time, the wart crumbles away from the healthy skin.
In other cases, you need a doctor to help you get rid of a wart. Here are some common ways to get rid of warts:
Prescription medicine, which your doctor can give you. You and a parent would apply it nightly for a few weeks.
Cryosurgery (say: kry-o-sur-juh-ree), in which the doctor uses a special chemical (sometimes containing liquid nitrogen) to freeze the wart, and a scab usually forms as the skin heals. This treatment is usually repeated every 1 to 3 weeks for a few months to fully kill the virus that causes the wart.
Laser treatment may be used for warts that are stubborn and haven't gone away with other kinds of treatment. A tiny laser can be used to zap a plantar wart or other wart. It may need to be repeated a few times to get rid of deep plantar warts.
Surgery is sometimes used to remove a wart. It's not a doctor's first choice because it can leave scar.
With any of the treatments above, the doctor will take steps to prevent you from feeling pain while the wart is being removed. And after it's all over, you can wave good-bye to your wart!
The warts more than likely need to be surgically excised, after four rounds of cryrotherapy I would be telling DOCTOR FREEZE to get a clue, second opinions anyone!
My granddaughter had her's removed in surgery today, they were on both feet. She's doing ok...some pain, but you have to expect that from any surgery...Good luck to you.
OUCH! Anyway they go it hurts!
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