Talk:Plantar wart

Greater celandine

 * This is why Wikipedia is such a bunch of c**k, I edited for ages and got sick of the core policies dogma, Greater Celandine works, just try it, ok I don't have a PhD but it kicks the shit out of warts of all types, but this is not verifiable unless you go out there and try it!

Tea-tree oil
I don't have access to the journal of essential oil research, so I'm unable to verify this claim.

This Nov 2008 article reports successful treatment of common warts on the hand. The study is on a single patient and there are no controls, so any conclusions should probably be treated with caution. Furthermore, there is no evidence for treating plantar warts.

With only this evidence any claims about tea tree oil as a treatment for plantar warts is unverified or constitutes original research. pgr94 (talk) 20:42, 8 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd say it's a problem regards WP:MEDRS. Pubmed does not index, it'd be nice to see an impact factor, but really to claim it as effective, it needs a more reliable source.  WLU (t) (c) (rules -  simple rules) 21:32, 8 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The journal's pre-2003 issues don't seem to be available through online journal databases. The article is available on request from AGRIS, though. — {admin} Pathoschild 23:23:12, 08 November 2008 (UTC)

Alot of this stuff is wrong —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.99.96 (talk) 12:24, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Reliable sources? emedicine.medscape.com and www.medfamily.org
Do these websites satisfy criteria for reliable sources? pgr94 (talk) 12:13, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

unorthodox treatment
Can I add the potential of treatment through personal physical excising of the cluster to the page?

I've done this twice and have completely ended plantar wart incidents twice now in this way. I can explain in more detail if need be. Murakumo-Elite (talk) 19:20, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you mean cutting at it? i do the same. It does work... but alot of medical sources disourage it as you can spread the veruccas. (i have never had this problem and have often cut out young ones with one slice and they never return... and no blood shed either) Wuku (talk) 14:09, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

It may sound gross and I guess it stems from an old wive's tale but urine does an excellent job at removing planters warts very quickly. Peeing while in a hot shower and swishing the affected part of the foot has caused my warts in the past to fall out often right after or during the shower. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.215.52.166 (talk) 07:42, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

I had a big one on my index toe with a small cluster around it in highschool for several years, trying all kinds of topical treatments to no avail, and one day before gym class I was in the locker room changing socks, with my left foot resting on my right knee as I was sitting, and my usual bully came up and slammed the foot off the knee with a punch (hammer fist), and it hit the floor pretty hard, and suddenly there's blood everywhere coming from a pea-sized hole in my toe where the wart had been. The blood was just gushing out like crazy, freaking everyone out, but it eventually healed and never came back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.212.157 (talk) 04:57, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

silver nitrate
Have added silver nitrate as an obvious solution. It is a simple caustic crystal that burns away the wart (and everything else if you are not careful). Still available over the counter in many places, but be careful with it. Much less painful than cryo-cures or real heat cauterisers. 100% successful in my case, if you give it two or three applications. Preceding unsigned comment added by Hoogson (talk • contribs) 10:33, 11 October 2010


 * Sinobot -  if you want to delete something, please have the common decency to explain why.  The silver nitrate cure is referenced in the warts section, so if you want to delete siver nitrate please be consistent and delete it from warts too.  And then explain why. Hoogson (talk) 16:44, 12 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Pgr94 (not SineBot) removed your changes, because you didn't provide any citations to support them. You can read about acceptable citations at Identifying reliable sources (medicine). — Pathoschild 17:26:29, 12 October 2010 (UTC)


 * The source is Wiki, as I explained. Or do you not recognise Wiki as a source? Hoogson (talk) 19:04, 12 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately wikis are not reliable sources. Wikipedia is a tertiary source, which means it collects information published in reliable documents such as scientific journals. Looking through the history of Wart, that information was [ added anonymously in 2005] with no citation at all. — Pathoschild 19:24:53, 12 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I think every nurse and grandmother knows about silver nitrate, it hardly needs sourcing. And why not delete the sentence here that says "A plantar wart is a small lesion that appears on the sole of the foot and typically resembles a cauliflower" - with not a reference in sight for this spurious claim.  Can I delete this paragraph?  Now if you really want something speculative, how about that last link that says the best cure is duct-tape.  Now that is speculative (but apparently effective.). Hoogson (talk) 08:17, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello Hoogson, If silver nitrate is so well-known then it should appear in the scientific literature, either in journal articles or in textbooks. You should have no trouble finding a reliable source.  If it is a folk remedy that is not backed by science then it is not appropriate in Wikipedia.  The relevant Wikipedia guidelines are WP:MEDRS.  Hope that helps.  pgr94 (talk) 09:23, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Images
Do we really need quite so many images here? — OwenBlacker (Talk) 07:35, 4 August 2009 ( Yes, we need, I think they are helpful and necessary. Why have they been removed?--Marionette1 (talk) 07:58, 17 August 2009 (UTC) I certainly don't mind the number of pictures, but there's absolutely NO reason for the last one to be as large as it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bugbrain 04 (talk • contribs) 02:12, 27 September 2010 (UTC) What can I do to process the photo that it may fit to the article?Marionette1 (talk) 07:52, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Unorthodox treatments
I think that the should be a section for unorthodox/unverified treatments. But that is just a suggestion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.218.44.135 (talk) 04:26, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Barefoot emphasis?
Hey what is with the barefoot advice? Walking around barefoot confers a whole other set of health risks, and wouldn't help anyone who already has the virus. I am going to change it but I feel there is an editor/admin who will swat me down, but here goes. 50.80.146.188 (talk) 16:31, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Seconded. The article reads like some kind of sermon against the evils of shoes. In multiple locations it recommends going barefoot as much as possible when the obvious course of action is to AVOID being barefoot in places other people have been barefoot. It's as if the influenza article told you to "be sure and drink plenty of orange juice before kissing random strangers in winter." 24.252.195.13 (talk) 19:58, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

um i want to point out the whole incubated by shoes thing is wrong sourced or not. hpv is a virus we incubate it so it doesnt need shoes to do it. But i cant source it without going outside the scope of the article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.197.128.39 (talk) 23:56, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

My family doctor recommended taking Tagamet (Cimetidine) for 4-6 weeks to relieve symptoms (pain, discomfort, etc.) associated with Plantar Warts. I have found this treatment to be effective, not only for Plantar Wart symptoms, but also for canker sores associated with citric fruit consumption (tomatoes, pineapple, strawberries, etc.). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.249.47.204 (talk) 22:12, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Common treatments
I had earlier in my life warts. I got this medical treatments: Bromoacetic acid applied on top, painfull sometimes, only to some degree successfull. I had one cut of at my wrist after it was fozen with some liquid that gets very cold when applied to skin, but I do not remember what it was. After the cuttig, the whole was treated with silver nitrate, it burned like hell. But I got lots of small ones around the cutting line after that. Then an old woman showed me Chelidonium. I found the plant growing on my way to school so I had a daily chance to use it. Just rip off a part and apply the yellow juce on top of the warts. Make sure that everything is covered and leave it alone for some days, dont scratch or wash it off. You may cover it with an adhesive bandage to prevent the stuff coloring your clothes or shoes or to hide it. After one week you can wash and rub it off and apply some new juice. I found out it works well, is absolutely free and does not hurt or bleed. It also does not affect the skin permanently, ist just colours the surface yellow which will disappear some weeks after finishing the treatment. I do not know if extracts or dried plants work the same way, so stick on the juice if you can. Now this treatment takes some weeks but I found it was the most effective way. By surgical removal there is blood which can infect other parts of the skin and does not prevent reappearance. Chelidonia leaves the skin undamaged, but it somehow activates the cornification of the warts so they will cornificate faster. The growth-rate of the wart is slower than the cornification rate, so it will reduce the size, till it disappears. Small ones disappear fast, bigger ones take longer but they reduce in size. I recommended this treatment to several people and none came back to tell me it did not work. So I recommend it to everybody, because it does not do any damage. If it grows still and does not reduce, it might be not a wart but a skin cancer or something else, so see a doctor immediately.--Giftzwerg 88 (talk) 20:31, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Do the math...?
From the article ~"Infection occurs in an estimated 7–10% of the US population. In a 1949 survey of 3,906 mainland Chinese and 1,222 Indians who had never worn shoes, plantar warts were reported in 0.29% of subjects. [3] While lower than rates in the US, this alone ...."~

7-10% is represented as .07 -.10. Therefore .29% is NOT lower but 2-3 times HIGHER! Needs a rewrite as this contradicts the reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sir wolf2001 (talk • contribs) 23:10, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * No, it really is 0.29%, not 0.29 (fraction of 1). The actual figure was 15 cases of warts out of 5128 people. --Graminophile (talk) 10:35, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Merge with Myrmecia
It has been proposed that Myrmecia (skin) be merged into Plantar wart.
 * Support, they are synonyms. --Lambiam 12:06, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Myrmecia can occur in other places, not just the bottom of the foot? Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 03:35, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Image
Nice photo of a "large" wart. Perhaps there should be a scale included in images used, is a normal "large" plantar wart 0.01mm or 100mm? AnnaComnemna (talk) 01:37, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes that would be useful agree. You can see the skin ridges that give you some idea of size. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 07:45, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Patient subject to electrocoagulation therapy for plantar wart dies of malignant melanoma
See here: 2607:FEA8:1DE0:7B4:C59B:655C:26C0:FEC9 (talk) 07:02, 23 June 2019 (UTC)