tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post8200370731549061617..comments2024-02-15T13:20:14.813-06:00Comments on Gordon's Notes: Duct tape and warts: how the HECK does it work?JGFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-87490906346951851742017-10-10T00:13:32.356-05:002017-10-10T00:13:32.356-05:00My 8 year old son has several warts. One is on th...My 8 year old son has several warts. One is on the tip of his middle finger right by his nail. I've tried everything for the past 2 years. It won't go away. He also has one on another finger right on top of the cuticle that we got rid of but came right back. Also has a very small one on his thumb near the bend lines, 1 on his elbow and 1 on his knee. I started the duct tape treatment Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17219874807299454469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-22419822758931211842016-12-20T16:09:24.836-06:002016-12-20T16:09:24.836-06:00That's fascinating, Angie. Thanks for sharing ...That's fascinating, Angie. Thanks for sharing your experience. Patskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14869172964400505216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-56219968731173143552016-12-20T12:54:26.927-06:002016-12-20T12:54:26.927-06:00I've had plantar warts removed previously by b...I've had plantar warts removed previously by burning/freezing off (20 years ago). It was not fun, and hurt quite a bit! Even worse, it was temporary and they returned. Several years ago, I had another plantar wart that I removed with the duct tape method. It wasn't painful, it wasn't expensive or toxic. I couldn't believe how simple it was. I have always figured that it was some angie1938https://www.blogger.com/profile/03494457352963885204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-36146523614542816902016-10-06T10:33:02.672-05:002016-10-06T10:33:02.672-05:00Pam - My guess would be that bandaids don't wo...Pam - My guess would be that bandaids don't work because if they did, then people would have been using them all along instead of duct tape. My comment before yours said that I had good luck with nail polish clear coat. It took awhile, but my wart had been there for years and nothing else had worked. The good thing was that it is near invisible except for some possible shine. But you'd Patskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14869172964400505216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-24512046280979618692016-10-06T07:39:34.115-05:002016-10-06T07:39:34.115-05:00My daughter has two warts on her face. One betwee...My daughter has two warts on her face. One between the corner of her eye and nose, and the other one on her eye lid. I have tired tons of home remedies (apple cider, aloe, tea tree) and freezing them off at the dermatologist. The warts grow back every time. I am now cutting little round circles of bandaids and placing them directly on the warts with hopes of having the same effect of duct Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09166890879293300865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-43020847559067271482016-09-10T19:52:06.869-05:002016-09-10T19:52:06.869-05:00I have had a pencil-head eraser-size wart on my kn...I have had a pencil-head eraser-size wart on my knee for several years. Freezing it and incising it had not eliminated it and it would always grow back. I had heard about the duct tape method, but didn't want to go around with a duct tape patch on my knee, so I used a razor blade to shave the wart as close as I could. If it bled, I let that heal over first and then painted the wart and near Patskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14869172964400505216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-11484444679320844032016-08-29T08:41:33.602-05:002016-08-29T08:41:33.602-05:00Ok, so I have a wart - pretty sure on the palm of ...Ok, so I have a wart - pretty sure on the palm of my hand for two years now - friggin thing drives me nuts! I have never had warts in my life until I started cleaning as a part time (2nd job) of course I couldn't leave the stupid thing alone picked at it and now it's spread into two or three warts on palm of my hand. I do see a very tiny black dot in center of wart (s) I have tried over $Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14640331426019419497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-47967999278387518712016-08-23T14:04:39.325-05:002016-08-23T14:04:39.325-05:00I like that this thread is super old, and people s...I like that this thread is super old, and people still keep going!<br /><br />Here is my untested unscientific theory about why duct tape works. <br /><br />I will first make two observations. (1) Plantar warts don't spread to skin beyond the soles and possibly the palms. That means that the virus needs a special type of skin to live in. (2) taping corns and thick calluses will make them thinRyan Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01177175453280829969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-74223572493574902542016-07-25T12:15:58.010-05:002016-07-25T12:15:58.010-05:00I've had planters warts as a kid. My mother bo...I've had planters warts as a kid. My mother bought and tried every flipping thing out there including wrapping my foot with a turpentine soaked rag. Stunk like crazy, did nothing. I finally just stopped trying and in time they went away.<br /><br />Well fast forward and now I have a huge common wart on my big toe. It's summer and flip flops don't bother it but... omg. Put on Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03043085531216417750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-71914244076442900812016-04-20T14:56:54.802-05:002016-04-20T14:56:54.802-05:00I'm back! :)
Another 4 days of duct tape and...I'm back! :) <br /><br />Another 4 days of duct tape and medical tape on both thumb bands, followed by emery boards, and I think I might have achieved 100% eradication. I will watch it for a few more days, and I will attack again with more duct tape if I see any warty tissue reappearing. <br /><br />Meanwhile, I want to revisit the theory I proposed above. I haven't changed my position,Sheila Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889644509382119024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-70430371972012927812016-04-16T16:27:51.798-05:002016-04-16T16:27:51.798-05:00PART TWO:
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The second half of m...PART TWO: <br /><br />================<br /><br />The second half of my hypothesis/suggestion addresses the general assumption that warts tend to fly under the radar of the body's immune system. I suspect that part of the ingenuity found in a wart's ability to avoid tripping the alarms of the body's normal defenses includes the ability to get rid of cellular waste via my proposed Sheila Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889644509382119024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-65611080134630430332016-04-16T16:24:18.522-05:002016-04-16T16:24:18.522-05:00Hi, I am back again! :) I once again have a VERY ...Hi, I am back again! :) I once again have a VERY long post, so I am going to break it up into two parts. <br /><br />PART ONE: <br /><br />================<br /><br />Both warts on the bands of both thumb knuckles are easily 90% gone now. It still haven't hit the blood vessel, but I will attempt to find it this weekend. More clipping and emery board filing. It's not gone yet but it will Sheila Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889644509382119024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-72667241751807016582016-04-07T13:33:08.085-05:002016-04-07T13:33:08.085-05:00PART TWO if my post. :)
I have had this duct ta...PART TWO if my post. :) <br /><br /><br />I have had this duct tape and medical tape bandage ring on both thumbs for almost 24 hours now. I intend to leave this one on for another 5 days before attacking it again with another round of clipping and bleaching and emery board filing. I suspect that when I take it all off next week on Tuesday, I will likely find the following: <br /><br />-- I Sheila Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889644509382119024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-65714366743810298482016-04-07T13:32:43.289-05:002016-04-07T13:32:43.289-05:00Hello again! I am back to post an update from yest...Hello again! I am back to post an update from yesterday! :) This post of mine is WAY TO LONG, so I will post it in two parts. <br /><br />Yesterday afternoon, I took off the three-day-old bandage of duct tape and medical tape from my thumb knuckles. The warts found on the inner-bands of both my thumb knuckles were easily 70% smaller than last week. :) I dried them off and then immersed both Sheila Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889644509382119024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-78445892006135253782016-04-06T11:38:02.933-05:002016-04-06T11:38:02.933-05:00Hi. I am a nursing assistant and so I know a bit a...Hi. I am a nursing assistant and so I know a bit about first aid and also about the proper care and treatment of human skin. I am right now attempting duct tape to fight two warts I've had for 2 years, each one located on the inside band of the top joints of both of my thumbs. (Not completely sure but I theorize that when I bought my used car two years ago, the steering wheel was infected Sheila Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889644509382119024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-32583925807146538212016-03-17T05:50:56.180-05:002016-03-17T05:50:56.180-05:00That's the same stage with my granddaughter wh...That's the same stage with my granddaughter what happens next.. Do you knowJRintzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12379060387419215392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-3762308151102086102016-03-17T05:48:55.750-05:002016-03-17T05:48:55.750-05:00My granddaughter has a cluster of 6 Wart's on ...My granddaughter has a cluster of 6 Wart's on ball of foot we are in day 3 of duck tape and all the black seeds things are gone but the Wart's look like Creators now.. Is that the dead skin part to punish offJRintzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12379060387419215392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-5597095613388664022015-09-24T13:59:41.071-05:002015-09-24T13:59:41.071-05:00I am trying Gorilla Tape. . Will report results.I am trying Gorilla Tape. . Will report results.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18224704696007485383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-88986403465378283172015-08-28T10:33:01.647-05:002015-08-28T10:33:01.647-05:00I'm not sure what 5-FU is, but if it doesn'...I'm not sure what 5-FU is, but if it doesn't work, try the iodine method I mentioned several comments above. Iodine has gotton rid of all my warts and they did not grow back. Perhaps ti killed the virus? I'm not sure but it worked for me on several warts in several areas, mostly on my hands. Here's a write-up of what I did:<br />http://hubpages.com/hub/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-90772735141900848292015-08-28T00:07:16.182-05:002015-08-28T00:07:16.182-05:00Okay, day 6 (after the first 2 days I figured out ...Okay, day 6 (after the first 2 days I figured out how to keep the same piece of tape on) and I have removed the tape. A significant amount of dead skin came off with the tape but sadly all that has done is expose the warts, as they have grown quite deep after repeated treatments.<br /><br />Not to worry, though, that is a necessary step! I may be cheating, but I applied a couple drops of topical Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17443303554103948762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-26715690269951206032015-08-22T19:33:29.519-05:002015-08-22T19:33:29.519-05:00Two of my wart haven't returned. One returned,...Two of my wart haven't returned. One returned, so I'm going to try again.<br />Medicine and freezing have not been as effective as duct tape so far.<br /><br />ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02657680315090491677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-8394125110690738932015-08-22T11:12:33.255-05:002015-08-22T11:12:33.255-05:00Our pediatrician says that duct tape works because...Our pediatrician says that duct tape works because of the ingredient "salacylic acid" in it.<br />Sarah Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17319980467069119571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-56079043932041099932015-08-22T11:11:19.182-05:002015-08-22T11:11:19.182-05:00With duct tape being my last resort and the result...With duct tape being my last resort and the result is disappointing after weeks. I think the best thing to do with warts is not to try treating them in the first place, cause it is true that they get mightier in sizes and numbers after all the treatments. It is so true that I do not see follow ups or report after the wart fallen off. What happened to me was they got uglier than ever before. I Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10258391752849668484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-83158374950396185892015-08-21T22:42:22.680-05:002015-08-21T22:42:22.680-05:00Does anyone ever actually come back to report thei...Does anyone ever actually come back to report their progress? If they don't, does that mean it worked and they just forgot about it or it didn't work and they were too angry or disappointed to post again?<br /><br />Anyway, there's no flipping way I could keep the same piece of duct tape in place with my life, so I'm going to try the replace-every-day method. <br /><br />I have Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17443303554103948762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-60233482677525155772015-06-07T03:19:40.343-05:002015-06-07T03:19:40.343-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10258391752849668484noreply@blogger.com