is it true you can use duck tape on warts, and what do you do ?
2006-11-11 03:10:32 · 13 answers · asked by darkhorse 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
My brother used it and it worked after a while. You just cut a little strip of duck tape and put it over the wart. It might take about a month. Put a fresh strip on every few days or so.
2006-11-11 03:15:56 · answer #1 · answered by Habester 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work in a Derm. office and we have told patients to do this in the past, you have a 50 percent chance of it working which isn't all that good but here's how you do it in case you wanna try it. You want to suffocate the wart so occlude the area with the duct tape making sure that it is air and water tight. Leave it on for 2 weeks at a time and when removing the tape, make sure you soak the area in water so you don't pull any skin off. It will be smelly and nasty looking and the wart may still be there so you may have to do it for another 2 weeks. Like I said, the chance of them going away with this method is 50\50 but I have seen it work. Good luck to you.
2006-11-11 04:06:13 · answer #2 · answered by Jaded 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! If you put duck tape on a wart then yank it off all it will do is hurt like a son of a b,,,h then make it uglier and rough looking.
2006-11-11 03:24:12 · answer #3 · answered by no.#1 Mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duct tape works wonders on many things. But never heard of using it to remove warts. There is an over the counter "freeze" that you can use if you dont want to go to the doctors to have them surgically removed.
2006-11-11 03:14:21 · answer #4 · answered by Squeegee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if you do use ductape people believe that it works because it is gone the roots in your skin causing the wart are not gone so it will grow back in a few months to thourly get rid of it go to the docter and ask for speical wart medicine it might sting a little bit but it will be gone in a few weeks
2016-03-19 06:25:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you get compound w and put it on your warts then you put a band aid over it and then you wrap in with duck tape. becareful it hurts pretty bad. the acid is eatting away your wart. hope i helped.oh ps. make sure you keep it covered at all time.s
2006-11-11 03:13:42 · answer #6 · answered by Shelby 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
false im afraid! doesnt work...why not buy a wart and vercucca remover i used one by schooll it was a spray that froze the wart then the wart falls of that gave u 10 applications i only had to use twice and the wart was gone...and it never came back.
2006-11-11 03:22:18 · answer #7 · answered by foxy lady 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i heard of it, tried it , and it didn't work for me.
what did eventually work (probably timing) is, i rubbed a penny on it until it bled and threw the penny in the woods.
the legend is that whoever finds the penny will get the wart.
this was probably made up by someone, for some reason; but it worked for me.
2006-11-11 03:20:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't be daft - warts should be dealt with by an expert if not they can spread like wildfire. Don't tamper with them. O.K.
2006-11-11 05:10:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i wouldn't recommend it, go to the doctor or by the wart remover from the store
2006-11-11 03:15:20 · answer #10 · answered by Dianna 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋