Duct Tape the Same as Doing Nothing for Warts
Sunday March 18, 2007
A recent study by Dutch researchers compared using duct tape vs. a corn pad that does not touch the wart (placebo) to treat warts and found that there was no statistical significance between the two groups. A previous study in 2002 by a different group showed that duct tape is more effective than cryotherapy for treating warts.
Comments
I had a plantar wart for over a year. I used duct tape along with compound-W and it worked, within a month the core fell off.
I had 1 wart on my finger for over 20 years, it started from a callous from drawing alot. Then another appeared on the same finger. I have tried every over the counter wart remover many times, even the new ones that freeze. Nothing worked until I used duct tape. I was shocked and elated. They have not come back, look at all the money I could have saved. The duct tape worked where everything else failed.
The study used a clear kind of duct tape rather than the grey stuff we usually think of. The clear kind uses a different kind of adhesive than the grey kind. So the study didn’t study the actual effect it was supposed to be reporting on. Everyone reported the study, but few reported this detail.
(btw, duct tape worked great for my son’s plantar wart)