Super Cold Spray - for wart removal?

LOL! I guess now we know Hoo Flung Poo! ;-P

Cheers! Rich

Shhh... it's one of those Darwin things.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

That was funny? Your'e a sick puppy, Jim ;-)

Phil Hobbs wrote:

Like Phil Hobbs, I've got a scar on the back of my pinky finger some

Regarding the original question, it seems Dr. Scholl's sells freeze-spray for warts as "Freeze Away Common & Plantar Wart Remover, by Dr. Scholl's":

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:mK5d4BMVwUgJ:

For the more adventurous, an electronic approach:

Warts themselves are caused by several of the 80-some known varieties of human papillomavirus. AIUI, the virus evades your immune system by confining itself to the upper layers of skin, where your immune surveillance isn't as vigilant. The trick appears to be a combination of removing the infected material, and inflaming it (thus exposing it to your immune system for attack).

Cool thing about John's needle-poking method is that it leaves a lot of healthy tissue-matrix. A family member tried it, tells me it sure hurt in the doing, but I saw it heal much faster than wholesale killing / ablation methods that wind up digging out a flesh-crater.

Reading, it seems that the salicylic acid treatment (e.g. Compound-W) is as effective or more than freezing, but takes as long as 3-4 months. OTOH, the medical literature describes freezing as a regimen to be repeated at 3-week intervals, not a one-shot cure.

Way back when--as a kid--I had a few frozen, unsuccessfully. I hated them so much I tried biting them off my knee, until my Dad (a doctor) asked "You bit them? Do you want to get 'em on your tongue?"

Hell no !

That stopped me biting them, but those particular devils soon resolved on their own.

More info:

Best, James Arthur

That's when Jim learned to sling s*it all the time and add ;-)

-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell Central Florida

Our young friend Dan told me about that one.

John

yup, it worked fine on mine :-)

I used kaptan ( spelling? ) tape, to make a mask, and sprayed it. The mask was just enough to keep the rest of my hand from burning, though it wasn't pleasant. Has to be non-wettable. whatever you use.

Repeat daily for a while, and no further problem.

David Collier

email can be sent to Dexdyne.com , under name from_usenet@

tell that to my 83-year-old dad, he's had his as long as I can remember

David Collier

email can be sent to Dexdyne.com , under name from_usenet@

My reading says Phil's right, they _usually_ go away within two years. Still, I've know a gal of like vintage to your dad who's had hers forever too, and would like to be rid of them.

That makes two people in my life with the same problem, plus my remembered childhood delight in killing mine(*), hence my interest. I may even try the Wart Zapper project I linked to earlier in the thread--I've got one volunteer lined up.

Cheers, James Arthur

(* I catch and release spiders, and tolerate just about anything that doesn't compete with me for food, but there are two things I will go out of my way to kill: fire ants**, and, it seems these days, warts.)

(**They've taken over the South. Large mounds spring up every few meters in open fields, and there's no getting rid of them. One day, on a friend's farm, just standing on the lawn, minding my own business, a swarm engulfed my foot & leg, leaving me with perhaps a hundred flaming, festering pustules. They acted not in self-defense mind you--this I would understand and abide--but I was nowhere near their mound. They were hunting, and this was casus belli.

After much experimentation, having arrived at a suitable environmentally-friendly formula, I thereupon cleared a several-acre field of a hundred or so mounds, which, by fruit of my wrath, remained clear for many years thereafter.)

My bullshit sensor jumped into the red warning zone when I read the word 'resonance' in the explanation of how it worked.

Well, in that case the wart zapper might simply be causing a local irritation, stimulating the immune system to investigate the source. The mumbo jumbo about finding the best frequencies and voltages might just be about finding the values that the human body is most sensitive to.

I wonder if it works on moles?

A friend of mine was relaxing in the garden when he noticed a large ugly mole on his knee. He told me the best way to get rid of such moles is to give them a good sharp whack with a rolled up newspaper. They invariably scamper off down the lawn.

said

I think you're supposed to hit them with a Bible.

John

No, you're thinking of Moslems.

If you really had moles in your garden you wouldn't find it amusing.

I had a situation like in a Bill Murray movie...

Flooded their burrows, the back yard collapsed

Applied gasoline and match... they were back the next day.

Finally knocked the population down by standing by the burrow with a snow shovel... whack !-)

Finished them off with bubble gum ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Some of those are quite big, and could damage your knee.

If you are vindictive, you could just stun it then bury it alive.

I certainly don't accept their explanation of the mechanism. I simply figured any effect that 'zapper' might have would be the result of concentrating a small amount of energy onto a VERY small spot, destroying the underlying tissue. Since the users reports that the damn thing hurts, I found this explanation plausible. Basically, a low-energy, controlled form of burning.

Good one!

Grins, James Arthur

Yup. I once used a soldering iron on one, and it hasn't come back. :-)

Cheers! Rich

Why must you find such expensive solutions to simple engineering problems? The bag by itself will do the trick.

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A bag tied loosely about the neck might look like an accident. Going to all the trouble to hook up a tank of argon (wouldn't helium work just as well?) removes all doubt.

Nitrogen would work just as well and is cheaper.