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Have a wart but no ointments or bandages handy? Skip the drugstore and hit the hardware store instead. US Army researchers have found--and have published proof in the October 2002 Archives of Pediatric Medicine--that simply covering a wart with duct tape is actually more effective than the conventional, often painful removal process involving super-cold liquid nitrogen.
At the time of the study, Dean Focht, MD, a pediatrician at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, was chief researcher. He and his physician colleagues conducted their wart study on patients visiting the base's pediatric or adolescent outpatient clinics. Of 51 patients in the study ranging from 3 to 22 years old, 26 were treated with duct tape (covering the wart for up to two months), and 25 were treated with liquid nitrogen (applying ...
- Duct-tape fans stick with remedy despite wart study.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) December 1, 2006 700+ words
...dermatologists have tried liquid nitrogen, anti-ulcer and chemotherapy...Nothing, of course, except duct tape. Sticky duct tape, the wondrous all-purpose...wacky "folk remedies," duct tape stuck it to liquid nitrogen in 2002, when researchers...
- Southern Illinois U.: Southern Illinois U. students expolore the many uses of...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 30, 2006 700+ words
...Adolescent Medicine found duct tape to be a more effective...painful alternative to liquid nitrogen, a commonly used...patients treated with duct tape got rid of their warts...patients who used liquid nitrogen. Duct tape creations on campus...
- Duct tape may be potential new wart treatment, experts say.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 15, 2002 700+ words
...either covered in duct tape, or received...are coated with liquid nitrogen for 10 seconds...vulgaris -- received duct tape "occlusion...wart with the liquid nitrogen, possibly causing...against the virus. Duct tape is also believed...
- Duct tape, warts and all.
- Newspaper article from: Harvard Health Letter July 1, 2007 700+ words
...in Ohio reported that duct tape could get rid of warts...that covering warts with duct tape was a lot more effective...involves freezing warts with liquid nitrogen. It was just the kind...the theories about how duct tape might treat warts is...
- Duct tape sticks it to warts. (Biomedicine).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Science News November 16, 2002 700+ words
...wart with a coveting of duct tape seems to be more effective...by freezing it with liquid nitrogen. Researchers at the...warts with a piece of duct tape for 6 days a week...22 of 26 people using duct tape disappeared within 2...
- Duct tape heals warts. (Health).
- Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication December 20, 2002 700+ words
...doctors found that the duct tape treatment was highly...percent of the patients. Duct tape proved to be even more...freezing the wart with liquid nitrogen. Cryotherapy was used...effective. Why does duct tape heal warts? The doctors...
- Duct tape gets another use _ removing warts.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Uhlman, Marian October 18, 2002 700+ words
...have found a new use for duct tape: wart removal. The...anecdotal reports of duct tape's wart-fighting abilities...freezing a wart with liquid nitrogen. Warts are growths caused...said she learned about duct tape's healing potential...
- Duct tape gets another use _ removing warts.
- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) October 17, 2002 700+ words
...have found a new use for duct tape: wart removal. The...anecdotal reports of duct tape's wart-fighting abilities...freezing a wart with liquid nitrogen. Warts are growths caused...said she learned about duct tape's healing potential...
- Duct tape works best as a wart remover in kids.
- Newspaper article from: HealthFacts November 1, 2002 700+ words
Duct tape proved to be a better...wart by freezing it with liquid nitrogen for 10-20 seconds every...The children in the duct tape group had the first tape...the 26 children in the duct tape group, as compared with...
- Duct tape is well known for its plethora of uses.(Postscripts)(wart...
- Newspaper article from: Nutrition Health Review June 22, 2003 700+ words
Duct tape is well known for its plethora of uses...Researchers instructed the patients to apply duct tape to the affected area for six days, remove...cryotherapy (freezing the wart with liquid nitrogen), only 60 percent reported these findings...
