[traceym73 (OP)]

I have a 6 year old daughter, she has a wart directly under her bottom lip-line. Can anyone suggest anything to get rid of it?

Thanks

[chris]

In a young person, and with the wart so close to the mouth, it is probably not advisable to treat it but instead to allow it to resolve naturally and discourage your daughter from touching it.

Aggressive anti-wart therapy would also most likely be more disfiguring than the wart itself - a classic case of the cure being worse than the condition.

Chris

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
 - Groucho Marx

[gsmollin]

You sure about that, chris. In a young person, warts can be very aggressive, and spreading is common. As we age, we develop resistance to them, and eventually stop getting them, but in a 6-year-old, it could get bad. I certainly agree that the wrong therapy can leave awful scars bigger than the wart was. This has to be handled delicately, but the child may need the right therapy.

[neilep]

Tracey, I suppose the very least you could do is take her to the chemist and ask the  pharmacist and see what he/she says......good luck.

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[doc424]

 iquimod 5% cream is a patient-applied therapy that directly enhances the immune response to HPV and is safe and effective for the treatment of warts.In fact, more of 90% of warts will be destroyed by immune system's response in 9-12 months. The trade name of the drug is ALDARA.
You can find a lot of articles here
newbielink:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed [nonactive]

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[Chub]

Use a Banana Peel.  Take a fresh banana, cut a small peice of the peel just big enough to cover the wart with a little excess, place on wart cover with medical tape and leave on over night.  Do this till it's gone, our experience..it took three nights till the warts were gone for good.  You can also try a mixture of Apple Cider Vinegar and distilled water 50/50.  Put on the wart several times a day, let it dry.  Good luck, six year olds may not be up for either one.  I first tried the otc freezing chemicals on my daughter and forget the commercials...IT HURTS!

Getting your child to eat more potassium (eat the banana) may help too.  Good Luck.

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[Clare]

My friend's son had warts that started to appear around his mouth. He also had them on his hands and knees. They decided to get them "burnt" off at the doctor's. About 5 were treated and the rest disappeared over the following 2 weeks. The idea was that if you can weaken the virus enough the body then takes over and does the rest.
Other people find the homeopathic remedy, Thuja quite good especially for children.

[Andrew K Fletcher]

Clear nail varnish does the trick! Paint the wart and replace when it flakes off as the wart shrinks works every time :)using coloured nailvarnish is unsightly.

"The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct."
K.I.S. "Keep it simple!"

[john2223]

I have a 6 year old daughter, she has a wart directly under her bottom lip-line. Can anyone suggest anything to get rid of it?

Thanks

Try using wartrol. It's an over the counter product that helps remove the warts by suffocating it. Ask your doctor about it. If you feel it might be too severe for your 6 year old daughter then try using home remedies instead. I found some great home remedies for warts here - <insert name of spammy snake-oil remedy here>

[Redwun]

Go to a good foot doctor they dont cut them out anymore

They will scrape cut off outer layer to expose then put the magic juice on it " Yes its real beetle juice venom" It works  100% send you home and tell you to put small duct tape on it every day  for few days until your follow up visit . to of mey kids  had a plantar wart and after man months of the over the counter salicylic acid compound W time and $ it did not work . after one visit to the Dr. they were gone . proof is in the pudding

your welcome
R C

[Bored chemist]

I imagine the intervening decade and a bit will have resolved the issue one way or another.

[puppypower]

One technique, that I inferred and then experimented on myself, was using a piece of an adult aspirin, that I taped directly onto the wart, with a circular bandaid. Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid. My logic was since an aspirin is safe to eat, it should be OK if it absorbs into me, via the wart. It is a moderately mild acid, which I was hoping would O.D. the wart with moderate acid conditions.

I placed about a 1/4 adult aspirin (size of the wart), on the wart, overnight. In the morning, when I took off the bandaid, I had what appeared to be a chemical or acid burn on the wart and beyond it. It was not painful, but the wart and the skin around the wart was all milky white. It was like the skin was going to form a water blister. After I washed off the skin, about 1-2 hours, later the healthy skin got its healthy pink color back, but the wart never recovered. The ideal technique is to make the aspirin piece not much bigger than the wart, to avoid friendly fire.

This technique killed 2-3 warts, that had appeared at that time. The third, although also appearing dead at first, did grow back. After that I stop the experiment and said, the check with it. The third wart never really amounted to anything,  but eventually dry up in its own. It was weak enough for immune system to get it.

I am not sure if my experiment is safe for a small child's tender face flesh. My hide; skin, is tough and narly. It may be possible, for a child, to try a piece of baby aspirin, that is no larger than the wart. This will reduce the acid concentration by 90%. Also don't leave the aspirin on as long as I did, at first. Start with a few hours or until the wart starts to show chemical whiting.

Another possible way is to use a skin or face lotion that is readily absorbed into the skin. Mix aspirin into the lotion and apply that for a few hours. You will need to do some development work. You may try it on yourself first two see how it feels and behaves. Old  time doctors always experimented on themselves, first, to make sure they do no harm.

[chris]

One technique, that I inferred and then experimented on myself, was using a piece of an adult aspirin, that I taped directly onto the wart, with a circular bandaid. Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid. My logic was since an aspirin is safe to eat, it should be OK if it absorbs into me, via the wart. It is a moderately mild acid, which I was hoping would O.D. the wart with moderate acid conditions.

Salicylic acid works to remove warts and veruccas because it is desquamative; that is, it strips off skin. This rapid turnover causes the skin to be replaced faster than the virus can replicate and re-infect the tissue, so eventually the lesion is grown out.

Acetylsalicylate (aspirin) is much less potent as a desquamative than the parent compound. This is in fact why aspirin is used (and was invented) as an oral medicine, because it is more gastro-friendly. It will have a weak effect, however, which it looks like you have shown, but it's probably easier just to buy some of the proper stuff...