Super Cold Spray - for wart removal?

My doctor did mine with liquid nitrogen. I showed her the thing and she stepped out and came back a minute later with a styrafoam cup with some LN2 in it. She dabbed it with a q-tip 5 or 6 times, froze it solid plus maybe 0.1" extra all around. Single treatment, worked great.

If you use freeze spray, I'd be careful to limit the freeze region from getting too big. The LN2 is much colder and can be more specific.

A decent stainless coffee thermos will hold LN2, and you can get it in various places.

John

They're a symptom of a virus, likely caused by walking around outside barefoot.

John

There's a $9.95 drugstore item that is just this. Probably worth the cost as they have calibrated it somewhat. I used it on my son's foot wart and it did go away.

I did almost exactly this to remove a mole on my abdomen. I shaved the surrounding area, stuck down gauze with bandage adhesive tape, froze the area of interest then cut it off with sharp, flamed scissors. Freaked my wife out. I needed to wear a "spot" type Band-Aid for a few weeks. A few years later, the spot is still mole-colored, of course, since the mole wasn't totally excised, but the protruding portion is gone and hasn't grown back.

Dr. Gott himself recommends it. Vicks Vaporub for fungus toes, too. And a bar of soap under the sheets for leg cramps. (!!!, but apparently it works!)

Tim

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I'm told duct tape will do 'em in too. Apparently they don't like the moist-hot environment. Dunno, the last time I had a wart on my hand "Compound-W" took care of it, though I had to use it much longer than the bottle indicated.

It didn't change, it had been the same since as far back as I could remember. I merely got tired of it.

I'd much rather die of something than visit a doctor. I'm allergic to all members of the medical professions, having grown up with two dentists for parents. The last time I went to a doctor was at gunpoint (INS medical) and the next time will be something similar.

Same here. This is melanoma land-of-the sun. Take a close look at Senator McCain's face sometime... he's had multiple melanoma removed.

...Jim Thompson

If a mole has changed much, I'd just go to my doctor and get it removed (and a biopsy done to make sure it wasn't malignant). That's what I did last time I had one.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I actually just briefly (3-4 seconds) sprayed the area a couple of times using the little tube attached to the spray button and after about 2 weeks the wart had basically worn off. You need to be careful not to get frostbite and damaging the sorrounding tissues.

I haven't done it with freeze spray, but I've physically dug one out. I got a pack of corn pads, and stacked two of them, with the hole over the plantar wart. After a few days or a week or so, the wart was just sticking right up there, so I went at it. I sliced the protruding top part off with a razor blade (yes, it hurt like a bastard), and pulled the core out of my foot with various tweezers and pliers. It gave up, but its little buddy showed up just a few years ago (it had been close to 40 years since I got rid of the last one). Some guy told me to cover it with adhesive tape - that white stuff from the pharmacy - and that it would go away. Duct tape might work there. What happened with mine (the new one - the old one that I ripped out by the roots never came back) was that when I checked under the tape, the main wart had diminished, but there were about 20 incipient little baby warts all around it. So I took the tape off and decided to try to heal it by Will Power, which seems to be working so far. :-)

According to Louise L. Hay, plantar warts are a symptom of anger at the foundation of your understanding - what the 'Hay', it worked for me!

Good Luck! Rich

There's a Mississippi folk remedy for warts: get a needle and jab it hard a bunch of times. It apparently wakes up a body's immune system to the presence of the anomoly, and then it cleans it up.

John

Acetic acid has a higher success rate and is safer. Apply a ring of grease around it, 2 drops of glacial acetic, letting them soak in, and thats it done.

NT

My doctor has "frozen" a couple of wart-like things around my neck using the medical equivalent of electronic cold spray -- that is, liquid nitrogen in a dewar with a spray tip. He sprayed the liquid nitrogen onto the wart at point-blank range for several seconds, actually. The wart itself became frozen solid, and the surrounding (healthy) tissue got rash-red. It took about week before the wart flaked off and the surrounding tissue healed fully. IIRC it wasn't painful, just irritating.

Recently the same type of thing has become available over-the-counter. The product is a can of cold-spray with a Q-tip thing at the end of the spray nozzle. I would trust that this product is effective if used according to the directions.

I have also had a wart on my finger removed by a doctor using an eximer LASER. The procedure is quick and effective, but it hurts like a SOB!

Good luck, Tom

Mine had been around a while, and was making my morning hike very unpleasant, and if I don't get my exercize my brain quits. And I think she (my wonderful dyke MD) enjoys playing with her "witches brew."

John

That was just your brain responding to all that far-right-wing propaganda you feed it. :-0

I like women doctors. I had a cyst on the back of my head that had gone big-time infected.

Our family doctor was afraid to touch it.

Went to a dermatologist last Wednesday.

She took one look and told the nurse assisting her to put on her goggles.

Then she whipped out a scalpel and ZIP... blood and yellow gunk everywhere ;-)

Then a bunch of painful squeezing and scraping... no anesthesia :-(

But it's fixed.

Of course I'm on Augmentin for 2 weeks.

...Jim Thompson

I had two done this way, when I was a kid. One was on the back of my hand, and it just dried up and fell off. The other was on a knuckle, and it turned into a big callus that I've now had for 30 years. I'd have been much better off just waiting for it to go away, which they eventually do.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

No, it was listening to Teddy last week that made me ill ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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