Planter Wart

[MNM95]

Hi there, My daughter has so they say a planter wart on her foot and they have had her on anti-biotics for sometime now for an infection and we got it cleared but the wart remover did not even change a thing after 1 month so that was a waste of money, now I have another doctor in a major city to get this removed in the meantime I have kept her on the anti-biotics for the reason of infection is back again, I think that the particular doctor just enjoys visits I asked her to remove by burning out and she told me that it scars the foot so she would not remove it. Can you help me?


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[helper771]

Plantar Warts are not fun, but this is what I did and it worked for me... I had never had any expierence with these warts and as such when my foot started hurting, I ignored it, but soon it became difficult to walk. I play basketball and found my foot in pain every time I played. I went to a foot doctor and was told I had a plantar wart. He told me about the different approaches (cut it out, freeze it, lazer it) but I knew all these things would precede to have a few weeks recovery time, so he said I could try Dr. Scholes (these were a joke) I found myself back to the foot doctors a few months later with a much bigger wart. So I took the next step and got it cut out (OUCH!) which is susposedely more reliable than freezing. Months went by and the hole on the bottem of my little toe finally filled in. For a few weeks I thought it had worked, but soon that same toe began hurting worse. I went back to the doctor and was astonished he said, "it came back with a fury," now I had five new warts covering the bottem of that little toe. He sent me to a specialist and she wanted to lazer them off, but told me I would be left basically with no little toe for some time. The first expierience of cutting it out was painful enough, I didn't want to go through something like that again. She then told me about the injections (ugh more pain). I was to the point I would almost do anything to be rid of them. I had to pull out of her another option, an immune responce cream. There were two steps, first cream I put on for a week, my whole toe turned white, and I peeled away all this skin (this hurts but the more you reveal the warts, the better chance you have). Then the next cream was the treatment, I was to apply this every night with duck tape (I found myself waking up in the middle of the night with my toe throbbing so bad I couldnt sleep, this means its working).I also took vitamin C,E, and beta carotine every day to booste my immune system. I did this for months and soon they shrank and turned pink and eventually dissapeared. It has been a year and no more plantar warts, the good thing about this stuff is, my body fought the warts off itself, now I have immunity to the warts as opposed to cutting, freezing, and lazering. THe key is to keep the skin off and the wart exposed to the medicine which is hard. I would find myself sitting for hours in pain as I forced myself to get rid of the skin around it. I even used a driminal tool and actually sanded at it, sometimes it bled, but this is what it takes. I hope this helps, I know how terrible those can be.

[teeje37]

i had a planter wart on the bottom of my foot.
at first i thought i had a piece of glass in my foot but as it progressed i compared it to pictures i saw of plantars warts.
heres what worked for me.
it was those small round discs that are sold with small sticky pads.
there sold in the wart remover section of the store.
you must be very diligent about keeping the disc in place.
I would put a band aid over the sticky pad that comes with the little round discs.just to make sure it stayed in place.
every shower i was very careful to remove old one and dry my foot well and apply another disc and sometimes i would put two or three on the wart.
this seemed to take forever but after about 2 months of diligence it shrunk to a small spot so i stopped the applications and the small spot went away :)
I believe the CONTINUED use is what got rid of it.
I also read that these warts can be picked up in public places such as public showers.

[MNM95]

Thanks heaps

[Vanessa Lacuesta]

Hi,

Plantar warts unlike warts in other parts of the body may "grow in" so this may be more difficult to remove and may also cause pain.

Plantar warts are usually managed by repeated application of salicylic acid and gentle debridement of the scale.If the wart does not respond to this, cryotherapy or surgical excision may be indicated.

It is important to note that plantar warts may require longer recovery and may present with more pain compared to other warts once surgical intrevention is done.Discuss your concerns with the doctor.If the wart is asymptomatic ,repeated medical treatment and gentle debridement may be the management of choice.