Persistent child's verucca

**kittikins** · 11-06-2012, 08:49pm

Eve has 2 really deep veruccas and has had them for around 6 months. We have tried assorted bazuccas, the freeze treatment twice and nothing seems to be shifting them. There was a third small one which had disappeared, but has now returned. She says it's hurting her to walk (they are on the heel and near the toes) and when she has no shoes on she can't put her foot down.

Have read on the internet that the doc won't freeze them on a child of this age (6) but we really need to do something. She has school swimming lessons in a few weeks, and I am worried they won't let her join in.

Anyone any advice?

TIA.

**cheeky_biscuit** · 11-06-2012, 08:55pm

Can she wear verruca socks for her swimming lessons?
NHS direct has these recommendaitons; duct tape might be worth a go?
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Warts/Pages/Treatment.aspx

**scatterbrain** · 11-06-2012, 08:56pm

A friend of Elena's had her verruca's removed last year (when she was 7) as they were hurting when she walked.

E has had some persistent ones, & generally we have to blitz them with verucca stuff and freeze them then pick out all the dead skin or they come back.

For swimming you can get rubber socks. Some pools/schools are ok so long as you have treated them (bazucca for example tens to give it a protective coating), but some don't. When E's school wouldn't let her go swimming because she had a verucca we had to buy her a rubber sock.

**Faith** · 11-06-2012, 08:59pm

http://www.swimming.org/britishswimm...ding-verrucas/

I wouldn't worry about them from a swimming point of view, for the reasons in the above link. If school do get stressy about them, a waterproof plaster is enough. Verrucca socks are a waste of time.

If the verucca's aren't bothering her, ignore them. However, if they're causing pain it's worth a trip to to the docs. IME with warts and verucca's though, they only got painful when my mum started messing around with all those horrible treatments

The only thing that will treat a verruca is the immune system. Everything else is pointless.

**Chell** · 11-06-2012, 10:32pm

We tried allsorts from the chemist on DS and DDs feet, nothing worked.

The doctor prescribed Compound W which I'd tried on warts as a child and was useless.

However, we found that where it touches the healthy skin around the verrucca it makes it go hard/dry/peels. Do it for a few days and eventually this skin will pick off without being painful. I poked it off with the end of a pair of pointed nail scissors. This leaves the black centre exposed and the hole thing will poke/pull put.

Both DD and DS let me do this. DD once vomited when I removed a splinter in her hand but let me do this to her feet.

I did it when the foot had been soaked in the bath for a while.

**Chocolate Lips** · 11-06-2012, 10:44pm

We've got this problem too, a really persistant one we've treated 3-4 times with Bazooka and 3 times with the freezey stuff, which is the most we can do with it apparently.

Mine go swimming twice a week with school and the school say as long as they've been Bazookered etc then they're okay. Nothing works though and she says it hurts so I'm going to go to the dr and ask for a referral to a chiropodist (as there's a clinic at our surgery). She's also started to develop two more on the same foot.

I've only had one in my life and it was a painful bugger so I know how she feels.

**Amelya** · 11-06-2012, 11:09pm

I've had a verucca for 7 years which had spread during attempted treatments and filing to warts on my fingers. Tried everything - nothing worked. Then saw cider vinegar treatment online (google it) and to my surprise it's worked - both verucca and warts now almost gone though was quite painful to begin with - more on fingers than foot. Not just fluke either as conducted my own randomised controlled trial by treating one wart and leaving others at first - treated one went - others stayed.