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Post by admin on Mar 12, 2007 13:52:20 GMT -5
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The next time you're in need of a wart cure-all, forget combing the aisles of the local pharmacy and head over to the hardware store instead. According to the findings of a small study in children, applying plain old duct tape to the common wart (scientifically known asVerruca vulgaris) appears to be superior to traditional cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen. While anecdotal reports abound of duct tape's wart-removing abilities, the therapy has not gone head-to-head with other wart removal techniques, according to the report published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. In the current study, the researchers compared duct tape therapy to cryotherapy, which involves several visits to the doctor's office. During the treatment, a physician freezes the wart by applying a quick, narrow blast of liquid nitrogen to the offending blemish. This is repeated once every two or three weeks until the wart is gone.
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