Reply #21: Buy High-strength Salicylic Acid plasters at the pharmacy counter

[Kolesar]

(I may have some old ones leftover that I can mail you).

I had one freezing nitrogen treatment and will never do another.

You can ask for plasters that are ~25%, not the weak 5% like Compound W.

1. Soak your foot in the hottest water you can tolerate for about 10 minutes. Towel dry, let it finish air drying.

2. Cut a plaster to the shape of the wart and stick it on. Tape over it with medical tape. Leave it on for 24 hours.

3. Peel off the plaster

4. Soak your foot in hot water again.

5. Using an emery board and/or an X-acto knife, cut away the newly-dead skin & wart.

6. Apply another plaster, wait 24 hours and repeat the cycle

Keep this up for about five days, you may wish to take a few days off for your foot to recover.

My dermatologist would have me put a cream called Efudex on the wart during the off days. Efudex is a medication to inhibit regrowth of skin cancer for cancer patients.

Since you cannot buy Efudex w/o a prescription, I would say try the plasters for 5 or 10 weeks and see how you like the results.

The real trick here is the high strength plasters and the hot water that kills the virus.

Notes: Warts do not have deep roots--it just seems that surgery leaves deep looking wounds, so people think they have deep roots. Good luck. If your dermatologist wants to compare notes with my dermatologist about Efudex, I can get a number. It is in my address book. Good luck!