{"id":7089,"date":"2022-08-29T07:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2022-08-29T07:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:45:21","slug":"home-remedies-and-otc-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/home-remedies-and-otc-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Remedies and OTC Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Home remedies run the gamut. People have put castor oil on warts, or a crushed paste of\u00a0vitamin C. Among the most ludicrous treatment that Stephen Webster, MD, a dermatologist at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, Wis., has heard: rub the wart with a potato and then bury the potato, keeping its location a secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other at-home treatments have research to back them up, say Webster and other experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"091e9c5e8033a915-3-9\">Removing Warts With Duct Tape<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, covering the wart with duct tape has been shown to work as well as drugstore wart removers, but it takes perseverance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Place duct tape over the wart and leave it on for about six days. Then remove the tape and soak the wart in water. Gently debride the wart with an Emery board. Repeat the whole process until the wart is gone. It may take a couple of months to completely remove the wart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that sounds like too much work, consider over-the-counter wart removers available at any drugstore. (First, check with your doctor or pharmacist to make sure the growth is really a wart. Sometimes corns and\u00a0calluses\u00a0are mistaken for warts.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"091e9c5e8033a915-3-10\">Using OTC Wart Removers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Common wart removers available at any drugstore include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Adhesive pads or solutions with\u00a0salicylic acid. Clean the area around the wart, apply the solution as directed, and later remove the dead skin with an Emery board or pumice stone. The success rate is about 75%, but the process may take six to 12 weeks, says Silverberg.<\/li><li>Solutions with propane or Freon that \u201cfreeze\u201d the wart. The success rate is about 75% after two or three treatments, Silverberg says.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Silverberg cautions: Don\u2019t use over-the-counter wart treatments on any wart on a child\u2019s face or lips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"091e9c5e8033a915-3-11\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home remedies run the gamut. People have put castor oil on warts, or a crushed paste of\u00a0vitamin C. Among the most ludicrous treatment that Stephen Webster, MD, a dermatologist at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, Wis., has heard: rub the wart with a potato and then bury the potato, keeping its location a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[820],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}