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[Lekker]

In Seoul preferably.

I have been going to the local doc here. All he says to me is "Don't worry..." and then he gets out a file and starts to file it away, with a file that has already been used on someone else... Wonderful.

Not to knock Korean doctors, but seriously, where can I go in Seoul to have this removed for good?

Would Yonsei University Hospital be a good bet? How about the foreign clinic I hear about located in Itaewon?

[spliff]

Get dogbert to chew it off.

[tzechuk]

You just need to go to any skin doctor to have it lasered off. Costs about 70K.

[Brendon Carr]

Crushed garlic applied to the wart and held in place by a big piece of duct tape (I think this starves it of air, or something like that) worked wonders on a plantar-type wart I had on one of my fingers. Plus I dug at it a bit to open up the interior. Four or five days of that and you're in business -- no more wart, plus a coolly odd discoloration on the finger. On a foot nobody would notice.

It stings (and stinks) to high heaven, but amazingly, it works. I wouldn't have believed it myself.

[Lekker]

That's SICK but I'll try it anyway...

Thanks.

[Bafsy]

I didn't do it with garlic, but I did use the duct tape (as recommended by my doctor) and it worked. It was gone in about a week.

[georgewallas]

The treatments for warts are cut off [knife, file, laser - painful, gross], burn off [LOX or NOX painful], or eat off [acid, no dogs involved ].

OTC band aid style strips you find in the States use a diluted version of this acid. Which means it takes longer, and since it is a little more convenient, costs 3-4 times more. You may be able to get this OTC here.

Any good skin doctor will know to subscribe the acidic ointment jar with about 10g of the stuff.

Put Vaseline on the healthy skin around the wart, using a q tip, dab the wart with the ointment, and cover it with a band aid.

Takes care of it within a week - if you apply it correctly [vaseline, q tip], it doesn't hurt, and causes minimal damage to the helathy skin.

If there's any left, it's also good for hard heel skin.

GL

[heydelores]

You can get the patches OTC at a pharmacy.

[SuperHero]

If you want to go to a dermatologist the Korean word is 피부과

[Lekker]

I think I found a solution.

I found a small vile of "Verrumal Solution, Warts Theraputic," manufactured in Germany, it worked wonders. I walked into a pharmacy and told them what I was looking for. They sold me the vile for only 8000 won.

Only two days after applying it and adding duct tape, the thing popped right out like a cork. Sick. I'm still trying not to gag from it.

[polonius]

I had a wart on my hand, and had it lasered off. Cost me 10,000. I think the price depends on the size of the wart. The give a local anesthetic prior to going at it with the laser. It was the smell of burning flesh that was the most troublesome.

[mysteriousdeltarays]

5 fluoro-uracil. A large pharmacy will have this and it available without a prescription which is remarkable.

It will be in a suspension of acetone sort of like paint. Put it on let it dry, do this again and again. Do not get tempted to peel away the wart, just keep putting it on daily.

You'll like this it completely screws up the "DNA" actually in this case the RNA of the virus.

Forget about cornification of the epidermis etc. just let it sort of rearranging the RNA.

One would want to rid oneself of the virus rather than the visible manifestation of the mutations being being caused by them.

Viruses are not not really "alive" if fact you can easily crystallize them and the rejuvenate them so to speak. In fact they are really self replicating "crystals" of a sort.

If you don't believe me me refer to say Watson and Crick's elucidation of the structure of DNA through X-Ray crystallography.

Anyway a few fluorine atoms attached to you clearly mess up the reproductive mechanism.

Ever hear of hydrofluoric acid? Fluorine is somewhat reactive!

The are many forms (genomes) of human papilloma virus. Not to alarm you but including that which causes cervical cancer, you may note that as the plantar wart developed and it certainly will that you may develop vague systemic disorders fever for example.

You want to knock this thing out on its replicative ability.

It occurs to me it has been awhile since I bought it here for a different purpose. You'll laugh it may come in a bottle of sort of apparently over the counter crap.

Regardless ask a doctor for it. If you can't buy over the counter.

Worse come hit the Seoul clinic, they'll probably cryogenically remove them.

You might want to knock out the entire genetic stream. Do both!

If you think it can mutate your foot, imagine what I might be doing to the rest of you that has't really been researched.

While you are at it get a vaccination for genital warts as well. Nobody knows what is really going on with human papilloma viruses. It can't hurt.

Well maybe there are people who claim polio vaccines are dangerous etc.

Sorry about the sort of 1980's advice. I have a PhD in this stuff I'm a little obsolete.

Go for the vaccination too. Who knew ten years ago... blah blah blah.

On an unrelated topic,

Yours for the eradication of Strongylodiasis.

The demented cult leader.

Tex

[mysteriousdeltarays]

Little drunk, I sound like I'm from India or something. I guess you get the general idea.

You want to deal with this. A virus that causes obvious mutations. Use your head.

[Lekker]

Thanks for the advice. You want to take a look at my foot mom? It really isn't as bad as you made it out to be. You sound like my mom. She's a physician's assistant.

Thanks for the heads up.