Childhood Warts

Warts


Our son has a number of warts on his hands and knees. They look very ugly and he wants to get rid of them. I have heard of many different cures from friends but my doctor says there is no cure. Is there anything that can be done?

Common warts as you have described are a viral infection of the skin. Your doctor is correct to say there is no cure. They can be cut out or burnt off but will come back. This approach is reserved for those warts in an inconvenient place, for instance a wart on a finger that is interfering with writing.
As with other viral infections such as a cold, one has to wait until the body’s defence system destroys the virus. In the cas of the cold this takes a few days but with warts it takes months or years. So after having the warts for a long time, our body kills the virus and the warts disappear overnight.
The sudden disappearance of a long-standing condition, id the reason there are so many miracle cures such as burying a dead cat by moonlight – taking glucose rather than sucrose was the one I chose as a child and after many months it worked, the warts suddenly disappeared. Unfortunately my mother was still putting sucrose in her cooking. Recent medical studies have suggested that hastens the departure of warts is to cover them with duct tape. If this is true, you need to go to the hardware store – not your doctor.