For the past 6 months to 1 year, I have had verrucas on my left footand I now currently have 6! 2 of them are rather large and the others are small and less noticable. I have just started to use a product called 'Bazuka extra strength gel' just a couple of days ago and it has been going okay, until now! As some of you may know, at night you need to peel off the white gel from the previous evening and apply a new cover, but tonight was a different story! I don't know what happened but as I was peeling off the white layer from one of my larger verrucas, the area around it started to bleed - alot! It almost looks like I have gouged out my skin... and now my verruca is very painful and I'm unsure what to do! Please help, from Joanne 🙂
Hi Joanne are you sure they are verruca's?
It would be worth getting a doctor or a nurse to check them out.
Corns and calluses on the feet may be mistaken for verrucas, but are caused by pressure or friction rather than by a virus, and are therefore not contagious.
The most common cause of corns and calluses are poorly-fitting shoes. Once again, young children are the most vulnerable due to the rapid growth of their feet.
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Best of luck 🙂
The same thread came up yesterday.
Louisa, very interesting that the difference between a corn and a verucca is the virus. Given, therefore, that one can have the same problem without needing a virus present, and ten people can walk over the same tile in the changing room but only one gets a verucca, one has to wonder whether the virus, if present, actually has anything to do with causing it.:confused:
The same thread came up yesterday.
Louisa, very interesting that the difference between a corn and a verucca is the virus. Given, therefore, that one can have the same problem without needing a virus present, and ten people can walk over the same tile in the changing room but only one gets a verucca, one has to wonder whether the virus, if present, actually has anything to do with causing it.:confused:
I couldn't find any help on the verucca thread - and yes I am pretty sure they are verrucas lol 😛
Verrucas are, according to medical evidence, caused by a virus and the reason that so many people can walk over infected tiles and only one gets a verruca is because the virus cannot penetrate healthy skin and needs an opening such as a small cut or crack to get in. Obviously, most people's feet are healthy and well protected.
Having said that, if you do accept that it is a virus, you have to accept that it must run its course.
A bit old fashioned, I know, but placing a piece of banana skin (white side against the foot) on the verruca will help to relieve the pain and reduce it slowly, but surely. It has worked for both my daughters where everything else failed to have an effect.
I have a problem with this medical evidence because there actually isn't any. In any case, there is more than one way to look at any problem, as alternative practitioners we should be in the business of uinderstanding the other factors that make disease possible. There is much, much more to disease than our innate helplessness against any tiny malevolence that can get past our thin defences.
And it has already been pointed out that it is not easy to tell which lesions are caused by virus and which are not. How many verucca sufferers have actually had the presence of virus confirmed, let alone proven as the cause of their problem?
I would contend that no virus has been proven conclusively by trial to cause disease in humans. Pasteur said germs cause disease and there we have rested, uncritically, ever since. But even Pasteur admitted at the end of his life he may have been wrong about germs. The few trials that have been done have actually failed to demonstrate contagion by naturally occuring virus alone. Remember the cold and flu research centre, that quaint British Institution that after 40 years of research they failed even to spread a cold, let alone cure it.
Inject a virus into somebody and what actually happens? Not much, which is why vaccines require toxic adjuvants such as heavy metals to provoke the immune system into reacting.
Incidentally, an epidemiological study of influenza by two mathematicians showed that pattern of spread is not adequately explained by person to person transmission at all - the big correlates for flu are not population density but geographical location and weather conditions.
And my own experiments on my own feet (excuse this personal detail) show that warts, veruccas, athlete's foot are not spread to another part of the foot simply by determined swabbing and rubbing.
Which brings us back to the point that each germ-derived disease has a germ-free relation. And we can be carriers too, can't we? And germs mutate rapidly also, supposedly. In other words, you can have:
1) the germ but not the disease
2) the disease but not the germ
3) both
4) neither
5) something else entirely
Which in my view is grounds for questioning whether the role of the virus has been overstated, or at least misunderstood. Conservatively I would say that virus is usually the product of disease and not cause, but this is a huge subject, and more suitable for another thread really.
Of course none of this discussion helps the verucca sufferer. I would say that the places to start looking would be weight-bearing characteristics (where abrasion is greatest on the foot), and where the body prefers to dump toxins to keep them away from vital organs, as it is wont to do whenever build-up is too great for complete elimination to occur.
And I suspect the homoeopaths would have their ideas about which constitutions require veruccas, the acupuncturists about which channels might be blocked, the nutritionists which foodstuffs create the chemical conditions required also. By contrast, going straight to the virus leaves us rather helpless to deal with this problem, I would say.
Still, there is a lot in the banana-skin idea, at least empirically,and I have met people who have shed warts and veruccas upon removal of certain emptional stressors from their lives too, which means the mind therapists have an avenue also. So I can't offer a cure, all I am saying is the world is your oyster and don't settle for the medical orthodoxy as your starting point for an alternative hypothesis!
Goooodnight Verrucas 🙂
Hey,
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Hope this helps 🙂
Foot Problems with Bleeding Verucca
I would go to your GP or go to a chirpodist. Your GP may refer you for NHS treatment. If you visit a chirpodist privately you will have to pay, but it may be worth it as you could get faster treatment than waiting for NHS treatment.
Last year my son had a verruca, we tried that bazuka stuff (I was reluctant and wanted to try natural remedies first but my ex insisted)
Like you after a few days he was in so much pain when we tried to remove it 🙁 horrible stuff if you ask me.
This year dd has a wart! I now have an ex 😉 so treated it with night time tea tree oil and a plaster, and occasional calendula cream during the day. It was huge and it has since gone down a lot, and has little black dots so I'm sure it's on the way out. My daughter however has taken against plasters and become strangely attached to the wart, so I think we're stuck with it a little longer!
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For the past 6 months to 1 year, I have had verrucas on my left footand I now currently have 6! 2 of them are rather large and the others are small and less noticable. I have just started to use a product called 'Bazuka extra strength gel' just a couple of days ago and it has been going okay, until now! As some of you may know, at night you need to peel off the white gel from the previous evening and apply a new cover, but tonight was a different story! I don't know what happened but as I was peeling off the white layer from one of my larger verrucas, the area around it started to bleed - alot! It almost looks like I have gouged out my skin... and now my verruca is very painful and I'm unsure what to do! Please help, from Joanne 🙂
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