What is the best way to remove a plantar wart from an 8-yr-old's foot?
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I am not a physician, but there are over the counter cremes that you can apply to the wart that will slowly eat the core of the wart from the foot.\n\nYou can also go to a physician and he will probably use a freezing technique that will quickly kill the wart tissue.\n\nThe first choice, while lengthy in time is less painful than the other method. (in my brother's experience) The few times that I had these when I was younger, I used the creme. He elected to go the other route because it was fast.\n\nTry and determine where your eight year old is contracting the warts. Usually public gym areas and pools and showers are the easiest place to pick up these warts. Not going barefoot in these public areas will help reduce occurrences.
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Take a needle, sterlize it ( use rubbing alcohol or a lighter).  Depending on how deep the splinter is, take twezers and try to get it out.  Or you can try a needle and get under the skin,lift the skin up and tthen try to take it out.\n\nStart by washing your hands with soap and water, then washing the affected area. If one end of the splinter is sticking out of the skin, grasp it with tweezers and gently pull it out. (Remember to pull in the opposite direction from the way the object entered the skin.) Clean the area well with soap and water, and apply a bandage.\n\n\n\nIf the object is completely embedded in the skin, you'll need to enlarge the puncture in the skin through which the splinter entered, or create a small opening to reach it, using a sterilized needle or tweezers as tools. In difficult cases, you may need to visit a doctor or nurse to have this done for you. \n\nClick on the link below for more information.\n\nHappy removing!
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Alcohol on a cotton ball and scrub, scrub away. It usually works. If not then nail file and scrap the skin...EASILY and that will definitely do it! Don't wear those shoes anymore!
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Yes duct tape can work to remove warts but it is a long process. It might take about 6 months of wearing duct tape.Its probably easier to have the wart removed.
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Treatment for corns\nProperly fitting shoes of soft leather and proper shape should be worn. Spongelike materials that absorb energy and thus prevent friction are available for lining shoes or bandaging the area of the foot being abraded. Local application of a keratolytic agent is effective for removal of the corn. Corn pads are used to relieve pressure. A podiatrist may remove corns with a scalpel. Patients with diabetes or a circulatory condition who have corns need special care to prevent foot infections.\n\nIt may take a while for the patch to work.  Turning white is a sign it is working.  If you do not feel that the patch is working properly go see your doctor.
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Go to the doctor, he/she will freeze them.  Or...they now sell at the drug store a kit so you can freeze them yourself.\nBeing that it is on your foot it is probably a plantars wart.  They have deep roots and cutting them off doesn't work.
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Duct tape man..\n\nI just had 2, a plantar wart and one on my finger. I used the band-aids with the medicne on them. Compound W works for a while. Then the really inexpensive ones work really well if they are almost gone. Try the OTC kinds of medicnes.\n\n:)\nteddybearthejedi
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What is the best treatment for a painful ingrown toenail?\nWhen the problem is mild, you may only need to soak your foot in warm water for 15 to 20 minutes and place dry cotton, such as part of a cotton ball, under the corner of the nail. Signs that the problem is getting worse include increasing pain, swelling and drainage of the area. Sometimes minor surgery is needed to remove the part of the nail that is poking into the skin.
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all i can offer is to put some antiseptic cream or dissolved salt in water on it and cover it with a strong bandage... it will heal itself... maybe get permission to wear open backed shoes for a few days.\nhope that helps... its just one of those things we cant do anything about
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Athelete's foot is tinea of foot : Acute stage : Treat with potassium permanganate soaks and gentian violet paints.  When the acute inflammations subsided use Anti fungal agents.   Shoes and socks must be sterlised with formalin vapours and  fromaldehyde,  in a closed box for 48 hours.  The shoes must be exposed to the mild sun and fresh air  for at least 2 days before being worn.  Socks sterlised by boiling for 20 minutes. Fungicidal dusting powders  help to keep feet  dry  and discourage the growth of the fungus.   In resistant cases x-ray theraphy.  Griseofulvin is usseful in chronic extensive and resistant cases. \n  Prevention:  Wear open type shoes. dry the feet properly, after bathing and use fungicidal dusting powder to the feet.
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Sometimes if it small. Large warts can actually get knocked off and not come back, a friend of mine had a big wart on his finger and we were playing basket ball, we seen his finger bleeding and he had knocked the wart off never to come back. If, it been there for 2 years it has probably Homesteaded. Many ways to approach this if you want to remove yourself. One, freeze with dry ice, be sure not to touch the ice with bare hands and holding with tweezers/etc. freeze only the wart. Two, take a teaspoon and heat over a fire (Kitchen if possible) then with the rounded side of the spoon burn the wart. Three, cut it off, may take the help of another person, how this work; use needle nose pliers or something to hold the wart and pull it up, then take a razor blade and cut, you may need to feel for where it at, but, usually if done correct you get the roots and it never come back and sometimes not leave a scar. Wart remover can work, the spray stuff do the same as dry ice.
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A wart is caused by a virus that it is in your skin.  It will continue to grow and eat your skin tissue.   Planters warts on the feet, grow inward and other skin warts grow outward and form a brownish bump.  Warts should be removed using over the counter wart treatments.  Also, if they are being difficult, warts can be removed by a dermatologist.   \n\nA mole is a skin mark caused by the pigments in the skin.  It is not the result of a virus.  Moles can vary in color, size and whether they are raised.  Most moles are benign (not harmful) and do not require treatment.  \n\nHere are some sites:\nMoles: http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/aa64413.asp\nWarts:\nhttp://www.webmd.com/hw/skin_and_beauty/hw64904.asp
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There's an easier way to deal with warts than using celandine - cover them with duct tape.  It may sound weird, but one of the chemicals in duct tape's adhesive helps remove warts.
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The warts are "Plantar" warts - the sole of your foot is called the "plantar" surface.  To treat the warts, there are over-the-counter treatments that you can buy where you apply medicated patches to the warts and they are cured over time.  These treatments use salicylic acid, and may take weeks to months to make the warts go away completely.
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In my experience I have had much better luck with the home "freeze-off" kits than the liquids and patches.  Dr. Scholl's makes a kit I have used, I think Compound W. has one too.\n\nI had them once so bad I had to go to a Podiatrist and have them cut out.  (That wasn't a pleasant experience, but it worked.)\n\nNow anytime it looks like one is starting, I freeze it and it seems to go away.  Since you've had yours awhile, you may need to freeze some more than one time.
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I had a stubborn wart on my finger for over a year that wouldn't go away with the freezing treatment. The liquid salicylic acid didn't do the job either. I finally got rid of it using the salicylic acid disks meant for corns that come with pads to hold them in place, but I just used the disks, not the pads. Corn removers have a stronger concentration of salicylic acid than wart removers. I changed the disks every other day and in between kept the disk in place with a waterproof bandage, which worked better than the corn pad things. I kept peeling away the skin, trying to get into the wart itself. It took about four weeks, but it finally went away. A podiatrist told me the real trick with warts is getting your own body to recognize that the wart is there and then your own immune system will help get rid of it. So you aren't really burning it away. You are just trying to annoy your body enough so that it recognizes it needs to do something. The wart "hides" in a protective layer of skin. You have to "out" it so your immune system will do its job. Good luck! Plantar warts are especially stubborn.
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Any dermatologist will have a number of solutions like liquid nitrogen or 'wart poison' shots, but those aren't necessarily recommended for squeamish 9-year-olds.  The stuff you get over the counter requires a lot of restraint to not pick at it for a while, but if you can get him to leave it alone for a week or two while you give him the treatment, it will work.