How To Treat Warts

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Warts can be embarrassing -- as well as contagious. Help minimize the chance you'll spread them to other parts of your body, or other people.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Time
Healthy foods
A banana peel
An over-the-counter wart remover
Duct tape
A pumice stone or emery board
A doctor

Step 1: Avoid contact

Avoid touching or scratching your warts, and don't share your clothes. Warts can be especially contagious if you touch someone who has a break in their skin, like a scratch or hangnail.

Warning: Never cut off a wart yourself. You could bleed heavily or cause a scar. See your doctor.

Step 2: Wait

Wait for the wart to go away. Warts often go away by themselves, though it may take months or years.

Step 3: Build and maintain strong immune system

Support your immune system by eating healthy foods. A strong immune system will battle warts and help them disappear faster.

Step 4: Apply banana peels

Rub the inside of a fresh piece of banana peel on your warts every night. Potassium may help them disappear faster.

Step 5: Try and OTC remedy

Pat your skin dry after a shower and apply salicylic acid or another over-the-counter wart remedy. Re-apply daily until the wart goes away.

Step 6: Try duct tape

Cover the wart with duct tape for six days; then remove the duct tape, soak the wart in warm water, and file it down with a pumice stone or emery board. One study theorized that duct tape irritated the wart enough to trigger the body's immune system to attack it.

Step 7: See your doctor

See your doctor for more aggressive treatments -- like freezing -- to remove warts. They may work better than home remedies.

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[runehq521]

Use the duct tape on who ever makes fun of your warts.

[CrimsonXdef]

Dont cut it, well fuck, Ive been picking at it for 2 weeks now, though i dont mind scars

[duffer108]

Use a nail clipper and cut of the top layer of skin, then use the corner of the nail clipper to pull out the warts, wait like a day it should go away...

[TheCrasella]

i am peeling my wart of now and its bleeding like hell

[vhenciesalazar]

Seriously, can I use a cigarette to remove warts? Pls. answer. Thanks!!

[TheCrasella]

@RebuildReach i had it for more

[nuttymonkey11]

How to remove a wart -

You'll need:

Scissors, lots of plasters

Method:

STAB IT WITH A PAIR OF SCISSORS!

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[TheCrasella]

@18bigapple yes it does

[TheCrasella]

i have a wart and it is very annoying :(

[KittehTehCat]

@c0olz1 o.o

[RebuildReach]

ive had my wart for 5 months now