Is VICKS VAPORUB a home remedy for wart removal?
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at
5:19 pm
Cus Vicks seems to work for eeeeverything. Otherwise, got any OTHER inexpensive home remedies? I have ONE on my elbow 
It needs to go. I’m open to any suggestions 
Filed under: Wart Removal
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Don’t know about Vicks, but if you cut a piece of duct tape to the size of the wart, and change it every day, it will go away.
c-ya
No-Vicks may work for lots of things, but wart removal is not one. You could try one of those OTC wart removal products, but I have never had much success with them. I recommend a dermatologist. It’s more expensive-but a permanent solution.
DUCT TAPE!
Treatments for warts abound, varying from as gentle and simple as taping a patch of banana peel on before bed, to as high-tech and powerful as superpulsed carbon-dioxide-laser vaporization. A study published in the October 2002 issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine compared having warts frozen by a doctor to having them treated by a nurse with duct tape, followed by an emery board at home. It turned out that the homespun therapy was significantly more effective. A small piece of duct tape covered the wart for 6 days in a row (if the duct tape fell off, a replacement piece was applied). After 6 days, the children soaked the wart in water and then rubbed it with an emery board or pumice stone. The next morning, fresh duct tape was applied for another 6 days. This was continued for 2 months, unless the wart disappeared earlier. I’m not surprised that this treatment worked so well. Even though both of these techniques destroy some of the wart viruses, direct destruction is only a part of the story. In the final analysis, it’s our own immune systems that are activated and engaged to eliminate the warts.
Use duct tape. ck out google for wart removal. There are several ways for wart removal, but even doctors are using this method.
Warts might disappear on their own, but it could take months, maybe years. Warts are skin infections caused by a common virus called HPV (human papillomavirus).
A study by Dr. Dean Focht, reported in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (http://archpedi.ama-assn.org), found duct tape to be more effective than treatment with cryotherapy (liquid nitrogen used to freeze warts, WHY DUCT TAPE
Two theories were proposed as to why duct tape works:
1. Debrides (removes dead skin) from the wart, thereby gradually eliminating the wart virus that resides in the skin.
2. Occluding the wart with duct tape somehow gets the patient�s immune system activated to attack the wart virus
Definitely duct tape. If you want to avoid embarassment of having duct tape on you, put a bandaid over the duct tape so it just looks like you have a cut or something.