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From: thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: warts, a personal testimony
Message-ID: <1906@reed.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 02:47:11 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 02:47:11 1985
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When I was about 12, I got a plantar wart on the bottom of my big toe. It
was an inconvenience, to say the least! My mom took me to a doctor, who
first tried liquid nitrogen once a week for about 3 months, with no
improvement.  He then tried an irritant plaster, that was basically
supposed to burn out the wart and the skin surrounding it. The wart got
*bigger*. (and the plaster burned whatever skin it touched, ate holes
through my socks, and made wearing most shoes just about impossible)
I read an article that said good ol' vitamin E could get rid of warts--
not by just taking the pills, however, but by breaking the capsule
open and smearing the oil on them. I stopped using the plaster (except on
the days that I had an appointment with the doctor) and started the
Vitamin E treatment about 3 times a day.  Within a month, the wart
was gone!  Later, I got another wart on my other foot, and, with my mom's
permission, skipped the doctor altogether and just used vitamin E; the
wart disappeared within 3 weeks.  Does anyone out there have an idea as
to why this worked?

Ann
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