[Warts And Verrucas] VINEGAR, VINEGAR AND MORE VINEGAR!!! You don't need to p...

RihannaLouise try to do it 24hrs a day if possible not just at night time, thats when I noticed the biggest difference happening.

Thank you all for your feedback. My sons verrucas are on to of the worst places. One at the base of his big toe and the other on the end of his toe, so he is constantly putting pressure on them. The last time I used cream treatments, it ended up bleeding and getting very sore. The problem I have it that he will tolerate everything I throw at them apart from the filing! He moans that it hurts too much. My little girl had one when she was 3 and I managed to pick at it when she was asleep one night and I remember pulling away the black core with no issues but I guess I caught that one a lot sooner. I might have a sample go with the ACV after sports day!

Hi

I have 31 verrucas on my left foot and 4 on my right foot and I've had them for 3 years and I am fed up of them. It's the summer now and I want to be able to go to the beach and swimming with my friends without trying to hide my feet. I've tried everything from using creams and getting them frozen and stuff but nothing seems to work. I've worn masking tape(not duct tape I find it to sticky) for 3 months now and it's only got rid of a few. I tried using vinegar but I had to stop after 2 days because it hurt so much. Should I keep using the vinegar treatment or does anyone know any other affective ways of getting rid of them?

Please help

The vinegar may not work on yours as there are so many of them and it could be very painful. maybe you

should try a product called 'end wart' on them first before attempting the vinegar.

After my earlier post, I decided to pursue filing the verruca, as suggested by carol05 - whilst judging whether or not to use the ACV. We worked on the oldest one which has now had 3 treatments of freezing. It would seem that this in itself does help. By the time I had finished, I could see what I recognise from my daughters previous verruca as the little black spots so i know I have got close. Will continue tomorrow and see how much more hard skin I can remove. It does seem the more hard skin there is, the less impenetrable it is with regards to treatments.

What I have been wondering though is why use duct tape with the ACV? Can you not use ordinary plaster tape?

Hi Kristina12: i have recently treated 2 verrucas and did experience quite a lot of discomfort, maybe start with a few just to see how you get on to start with? I can imagine treating 31 will be painful. Let us know how you get on!

Mums the word: I used a patch of cotton wool, soaked in the AVC, placed that over the verruca and then taped in place (around my toe) with normal white surgical tape. I then wore a sock on that foot just to make sure there wasn't any air getting to it, and slept like this each night, for about three weeks until mine disappeared. Good luck!!

Kathrynjbuck thanks for the advice I treated some of the more obvious ones last night and I'm hoping to god that it'll work. Ill keep ye posted.

Hi everyone, well I am not one for posting on forums usually, but felt I would join in as I am also a verruca sufferer. I have had a huge 50p size cluster of verrucas on my heal for nearly 10 yrs now. I have tried everything, freezing, bazuka, wartner, duct tape but nothing seems to have worked. After seeing this post last weekend, I decided to embark on the vinegar miracle sure! I am currently using white vinegar (as this is all I had in my cupboard) I will invest in ACV if this does not work but thought it was worth a shot. I am only onto day 3 of the "treatment" but can already tell it is doing something. I have been soaking a cotton pad in vinegar and strapping it on with sticky tape (only stuff I have in the house) I keep it on overnight and now its the weekend I have had it on all day too. I cannot keep it on in the day usually because of where it is positioned it falls off in my sock throughout the day, any advice on how I could keep it in place? So far the skin all around the verrucas has gone very raised and white, I can see black heads (loads of them) where previously there was no black just mostly dead skin. I have tried to scrap away dead skin after and before any new application of vinegar. I can feel my heel throbbing slightly, but nothing too painful yet. I understand this process can take a while from reading all your posts, so I will continue with this. After 10 yrs I don't mind trying this for a few weeks or months if necessary!!

I have noticed a few people saying, the verruca or skin just peels off, when could this happen? Nothing seems to have peeled yet, I just scrap the skin which comes away a bit and I think a couple of the black bits have come out, but considering they have been there 10 yrs i think the root is very deep. Anyway, I will keep you all posted with my progress as your posts have given me hope of getting rid of this unsightly embarrassing thing!!!

Hi everyone - I've read the whole discussion and need some help!

I have a small wart on my chin, and as you can imagine I want it off!!!!

SO far, I've tried tea tree oil, and now salicylic acid, which I have been using for 2 weeks. TBH the size is still the same and I haven't seen much improvement. I apply it at night and when I wash it off in the morning it is white, so I file it away but I think it is growing back - but I could be imagining it!

After really the success off ACV, I think I might try it. Hoever, most the posts are about veruccas - has anyone tried it on a wart? And if so, what is the success rate and process?

The wart is so visible, its getting me down all suggestions welcome! Thanks!

I had verrucas when I was about 12 (I am now 48!) and they were frozen (AGONY!) and disappeared. Fast forward to age 31 and they started to return. I have tried pretty much everything since then to get rid of them, except the nitrogen freezing as that was so painful the first time round. I've tried bazucca, tea tree oil, paying a chiropodist to treat them, antibacterial gel and even a homeopathic remedy - no success at all. Apart from the embarrassment and discomfort, they are now on the move and I have some small warts on my hand and worst of all, on my nostril! So I've had them for 17 years

After reading this thread, I've been treating the two massive verrucas on my feet with overnight cotton wool and cider vinegar. They have definitely shrunk, though they are very sore in the mornings and I can hardly walk properly after first removing the stuff in the mornings. Like the other people on here, I have also been seeing the black bits appear and I have been filing the hard skin away some evenings when the skin is dry - I think that otherwise the hard skin would stop the vinegar from penetrating into the verruca. I have been doing this for two weeks now and I can't wait to wave them goodbye! However, I'm not having so much luck with my hand, as the vinegar really irritates the skin but doesn't get rid of them, and I can't keep the cotton wool on my nostril!

Has anyone got any tips about how to use vinegar to treat facial warts? Would just dabbing them with a soaked cotton bud help?

Also, thank you so much to everybody who's taken the trouble to post their experiences here. I've bee reading the posts over and over again to reassure me that there really is the prospect of a cure after all these years!!

Hi all

Like some of you here this is my first forum. I have read most of this whole thread. I got a small verruca on the ball of my foot for the first time in 20 years. I thought it was a corn but my chiropodist put me right and told me about the vinegar method, hence I discovered your blog.

Not being the most patient I went a little OTT taping a cotton wool swob to it morning and night for four days/

Nights. I also did a vinegar foot soak on night two. It was incredible painful for upto 6 hours continuously after each application. It became very sore and developed a white ring around the verruca. I went back to the chiropodist who was horrified by the state of my foot. She cleaned it up removing all the dead skin and gave me strict instructions about not getting it wet for three days and letting it heal for a week. It healed really well. I had a black spot/scab which came off leaving a tiny pin head hole of no colour. And the skin has improved.

My question is. Is that it? Has it gone? Is the tiny pinhead hole the one referred to above and will that go soon? My chiropodist says it is looking good, that was last week and I am due back there next Wednesday?

Anyone offer any reassurance?

The whole blog is fantastic and been a great help thanks!

Hi guys, hoping I can get a bit of support and help! I had several small warts appear on my hands two years ago while I was incredibly stressed out. Knowing they're contagious, I kept them covered at all times and wore latex gloves in the shower! It was a nightmare. I contacted my doctor asking about treatment for them but he brushed it off and said they'd go in a year (I'd had them about nine months at that point) and that they couldn't spread to my genitals (which is untrue! Though fortunately my precautions prevented that). After about six months and several home treatments (Wartner, I think) they did go away.

Well, I'm incredibly stressed out again, my immune system is protesting, and the b****rs are back! They popped up in about two days and I'm not prepared to take precautions for another 14 months while my body fights them off (badly).

I've been putting ACV on a cluster of 3-4 warts on my hand for the last three nights. It feels like something is happening, but today I peeled off plaster and discovered that the biggest wart has gone grey-green, not black like I was expecting. This makes me think the damn thing's infected, despite being covered in vinegar for 12 hours and wiped with alcohol gel on a regular basis. Has anyone else's wart ever gone green? Is it time for me to be visiting my useless doctor?!

I have registered on this website for the solely purpose of thanking everyone who has shared their experience on this topic, I am halway through of getting rid of my verruca -on the side of my big toe-.

I went to the podiatrist and she gave me Occlusal, it did little and after a week I stopped, then I tried Tea Tree Oil and for a week did something but nothing major, then stumbled across this forum looking for solutions and decided I had nothing to lose I gave it a try, here it what I have been doing (at the moment I am at day 6):

1.soaking the foot in water with vinegar or tea tree oil for about 20min or shower and file away with a pumice stone to get rid of excess dead skin.

2. For the first 3 days I have been soaking a small cotton bud in ACV and applied to verruca with a plaster, after that it got too painful to do it all day so during the day I have been using athletes foot powder in my shoes and socks and during the night the vinegar.

Today is day 6 and after having a shower I filed away with the pumice stone and fell off!! no pain! is still painful if I apply pressure to where it was so I will continue with the treatment until I am 200% sure its gone and the pain goes away.

Thank you eveyone for sharing your experiences and methods and for those of you getting rid of yours my biggest advice is: Patience, it will go away, but no pain no gain, and when you are filing away and see the "hole" appear is like seeing heaven

I started this treatment on both my daughters' feet Thursday night. It has been painful, but no more painful than the pain they had with the actual verruca - if that makes sense.

So, do you keep dressing every night until the black bit disappears?

I am impressed with how quick it all starts to work.....the ACV certainly does SOMETHING cos the black bit is definitely coming up.

Does white wine vinegar work just the same as apple cider vinegar?