I don't know if this is something that has already been around umpteen jillion times or not but I thought I'd share it because, for some reason, it seems important, especially to those of us who've been tormented by warts at some time in our lives.

It seems that we've yet found another use for good ol' duct tape. It can now be used as a wart remover. What? Yep, that's right, a wart remover. Here's how it's done:
If you have a big, ugly wart somewhere and you want to get rid of it, cut a piece of duct tape to about the size of the wart and stick it on top of the offending wart. Leave it on for a minimum of six days. After that, pull it off and put on another piece of duct tape. Eventually, the wart will disappear. How does that work? Here's the theory:

Evidently, when you place the duct tape over the wart, it causes the skin in and around the wart to become irritated and inflamed. When this occurs, the body's own immune system kicks in and goes to the area of irritation to find out what's going on. When it gets there is finds the offending virus that is causing the wart in the first place. It either kills the virus out right or it chases the virus out into the body where the immune system easily kills it. Once the virus is killed, the wart disappears.
Now, does this work for everyone? I don't know but from what I'm reading this method is becoming quite popular just because it seems to work.
It may not work on plantar warts or genital warts but is certainly seems to be working on common warts, usually found on the hands, fingers or arms. I guess you could try it on genital warts if you can reach them easily or have someone else put the tape on

I like to use homeopathy to remove warts if I can. I feel that with homeopathy you remove the predisposition to get the wart as well as the wart.

My son cured easily with thuja. Someone else with causticum. My wart took a lot of treatment with homeopathy. The cure was causticum too but finding the right potency was the issue. 3 potencies and 5 months of treatment were tried before we went to a Q potency that cured it quickly, along with other issues I was having which is what drove me to the homeopath in the first place, not the wart.

Duck tape costs a lot less thats for sure!
I wonder why it works.

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The duct tape method removes dead skin from on top and beneath the wart BUT most importantly - eliminates the virus in the process.

Many prefer this method then any other as it�s inexpensive, simple to do with no reoccurrence of the removed wart.

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I used iodine once a day and it worked. It did not take too long.

My son used topical MMS. It only took a couple of days.
Certainly if genital warts were an issue, topical and oral might work very well.
I just can't say enough about how impressed I am with MMS and Iodine.
I will contemplate more on the duck tape

One of my concerns is that people have access to medicine that works and that
they can afford... so if duck tape is what you have.... there are a lot of people out there
who have a hard time affording MMS and iodine, never mind homeopathy and other stuff.

I've read that the same process, with the duct tape, can be used with skin tags.

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The duct tape works because warts have the ability to hide from the immune system and the tape is enough of an irritant to call the body's attention to the wart.

u&i, thats an interesting theory!

My theory is you need to use rubber based duct tape on the wart or it will not work. There have been 2 studies on this using duct tape to cure warts, one in 2002 and the other in 2007. The 2007 study did not use the rubber based duct tape which is the key. They used transparent duct tape with little to no results. In the 2002 study, of the 26 patients treated with traditional rubber based duct tape, 85 percent got rid of their warts compared with 60 percent of the 25 patients who received the freezing treatment. There is a protein in rubber called hevein that is a natural anti fungal and apparently very strong one. It does not look like the virus stands a chance with constant contact with the duct tape. It is my theory that this is what is doing the work in killing the virus. The excellent bonding to the skin that is inherent with duct tape keeps the hevein constantly on the wart to kill it.

Interesting! Since duct tape has the rep for fixing about anything I wonder if it could cure cancer too!

and I'm not joking. Many cancers have a viral cause.

I've just completed 5 weeks of using duct tape around my thumb, keeping my wart covered. Alas, the wart is still there. It is somewhat smaller but when I press on it it still hurts so I guess it is alive and doing well. Maybe it was the wrong kind of duct tape. Once I used food grade hydrogen peroxide. Cut some of the cotton off a q-tip so you have better control in putting on the peroxide as is quite strong and will take the color out of your skin (it does come back). Hold and press the q-tip for awhile. It will sting! Guess I then put on a covering of fingernail polish......could try the duct tape! I'll probably try this again and just continue with the H2O2 longer. I have had this wart for 30 years and have spent lots of money trying to get rid of it.....several visits to the dermatologist for various treatments and over the counter treatments, etc. One of these days.....!!!

I've used moleskin instead of duct tape, along with tea tree oil and have had great success. I used to get warts pretty often, but seem to not be getting warts anymore (knock on wood).

I usually would change the moleskin twice daily...each time applying tea tree oil and then a dab of tea tree salve/balm (pretty easy to make) and within a week or so the wart would be gone. (The tea tree oil kills the virus and stimulates the immune system)

How well this would work on long standing warts like Marilyn is anybody's guess...

Since July I have been wearing the duct tape on my foot, changing it about every 3-4 days. It worked well at first and then slowed down. About 3 weeks ago I started putting a crushed up aspirin on the wart then the duct tape. Did this about every other day for 2 weeks. I read that the apsprin eats away at the top layer of protective skin to get at the wart. The skin started to come off and the wart seemed to get smaller in hight. Today I am not using anything because I believe the wart has died! The skin is still a little rough but my toe now looks normal sized and the skin is pink, not white. Give the aspirin a try

I had a rather large skin tag in a "personal" bad area to treat, real soft and tender so I didn't want to put duct tape on it and I tried all the oil products made for skin tags and warts and also just pure tree oil, all it did was irritate the area around the tag, tried mms, tried blood root, all just got rid of the top layer of skin and was not making any real progress and after 3 months of all that and about to give up I tried the silycilc acid wart remover, it stings a little but not bad and started drying it up and it's almost gone, it's the only thing that worked for me, just hope it will kill the root and not return.

Its been some time now since this thread started. I have since seen thuja 30c homeopathic remedy cure several more cases. You can purchase this in most healthfood stores.