My 11 year old complained of his foot being sore this morning. I laughed it off and said something about growing pains. He then told me it was his verrucas!!
I did not know he had any. He has 17 small slightly raised verrucas on one foot. I am shocked. He tells me they are there a while but were not sore until yesterday. He was wearing thin sole shoes and I reckon the pressure had caused them to be sore.
Am I correct in saying that as they are viral, if you kill one you kill them all? What is the best option?
Can either get them frozen off by the gp, or we've been using apple cider vinegar each night on one that my husband has had for years. The freezing hasn't been working but the apple cider vinegar has been gradually killing it off.
Hi jungdreamer,
They are part of the wart (papimollavirus) family and are very contagious so they need to be kept covered at all times. Swimming pools and sports showers/changing rooms are a real breeding ground!
17 on one foot seems a little excessive so they probably need treating by a GP or a chiropodist initially.
Meanwhile your son needs to look after himself and strengthen his immune system.
Hi, verrucae is a virus. You need to work on his immune system so the body will fight it itself. Echinacea is great for that and vitamin complex. You can also try Marigold tincture, keep them covered with tape to mascerate the skin and make it more responsive to treatment. Good luck!
It's all very well blaming a virus, the main reason for doing so is that this is what we are conditioned to do. We find a virus because our imaginations are trained to do so and not trained to see this any other way. If this is entirely the cause, why so many on one foot and none on the other? What about the rest of the family? I bet even a brief spell in the bathroom of the family house is enough to spread contamination from one foot to the other many times over - so what else is going on to create the conditions for this 'virus'? Of course this is a hypothetical question because I have not seen the case, hence any answer given here is entirely hyopthetical also.
Incidentally, every 'viral' disease has a non-viral analogue: flu/flu-like illness, polio/guillon-barre syndrome. Experiments in contagion have found it extremely difficult to cause disease in one person by contact with a virus from another. Of course, such experiments are rare in humans for obvious reasons, but what this means is that our assumptions about contagion are seldom if ever put to the test in a formal sense. But they are put to the test informally - yesterday I travelled across London by public transport, and was exposed to practically every 'pathogen' known to man. So how soon can I expect to get sick and die?