Do Toads Actually Give You Warts? | The Truth About Warts & How to Get Rid of Them

It's a common tale that toads can give you warts-but we're here today to absolve the poor, humble toad of its wart-giving reputation. Learn about the real virus that causes warts, how they spread, and what you can do to get rid of them in this new episode of SciShow! Hosted by Michael Aranda.
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[@mareeyo1]

When I was young, I had a total of 40 warts on both of my hands (I get chills just by typing this) which I contracted by sharing fries with an infected friend. My parents took me to a dermatologist who gave me more than 10 different anaesthesia injections and burned them off with nitrogen. I still have some scars but just thinking about them gives me goosebumps.

[@donnadanielsen9411]

I’m sorry that you had to go through that

[@Coolstarburst]

I had the same situation man but on my feet and toes to the point my entire toes had more wart then regular skin initially. (I used to take swimming lessons all the time and it turned out way later one of the kids was already infected)

[@lamklaner3]

My younger brother had a wart 'colony' on his hand. He tried everything from duck tape to freezing to antibiotics. What sorted it for him was garlic. Taking a garlic clove and using tape to attach it to the affected area. After well over a year of trouble this treatment took a couple of weeks, but no problems since!

[@kateg9437]

Why would you try antibiotics? They can't help against a virus. How did he even get antibiotics for a wart?

[@JoeyBullet222]

@@kateg9437 some do apparently. Doctor.

[@gklein82]

My sister had the same problem and my mom used Vaseline and cayenne pepper and covered it and in a few days the warts were gone.

[@higurashikai09]

Garlic worked for my planters warts too. Definitely the vest treatment as long as you never fall asleep with the garlic on your skin which could make you miss signs of ("natural") chemical burns

[@higurashikai09]

@@kateg9437 some doctors perscribe antibiotics for everything. It definitely used to be that way until evidence showed bacteria evolving immunity. Though some doctors still perscribe it when they don't need to-a general practitioner may not know that warts are viral compared to a dermatologist.

[@jibijay]

Had a mother wart on the bottom of my heel as a teenager. It almost covered my heel, was circular and looked like a collection of warts piled up and around each other.I remember when it started coming away and I picked it out. Had a nice crater in my heel after which healed up and returned to normal but I never forget how satisfying it was to peel that beast off and feeling air on my heel where the wart was. Good times.

[@andreaa.9709]

I had a wart on my hand for at least a year or maybe two and finally my mom took me to the dermatologist. She applied some sort of beetle juice that created a very large and painful blister underneath the wart that forced it to detach from the rest of the skin eventually. Weird and unpleasant but it worked after two treatments.

[@MeowIsNotHere]

same but they put liquid nitrogen on it

[@Tim.Stotelmeyer]

The foot doctor I went to used the beetle juice to remove plantar warts from my feet. That juice did what freezing and acid treatments could not do.

[@duanduban4978]

interesting never heard of it only Beetle Juice Movie lol

[@MeowIsNotHere]

@@duanduban4978 huh

[@sandreid87]

Had a wart on my hand 6 months ago. Went to my doctor, which sent me to a skin specialist. They cut, froze, and then told me to buy Verucid from the local drugstore. None of it seemed to help, despite lots of patience, and after 3 months I had kinda given up. I then went on the internet and found some old "house wife tricks" on how to remove em (And among them: The ducktape). I did go with simple salted water however. 2-3 times per day, for about 10 mins each time, and within 2 weeks, my wart was complete gone. Those "tricks" actually worked a lot better than the actual drugs on the market. Or at least, they did for me. But people say the results differ a lot from person to person, so maybe I just got lucky ^^ Just wanted to share the story. It's not just imagination, that it works :)

[@ledbysoulyoga3]

What remedy u used ,can u pls share if possible

[@marguaritetherese3156]

I had warts on my hands as a kid. My mom bought them from me; gave me a penny or a nickel, something small. I don't remember how long afterwards they went away. Duct tape was probably more effective than this.

[@theinternetstolemysoulbuti2740]

My instinct of avoiding other people... Is stronger than ever.

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

*contagious friends and strangers hug you in solidarity*

[@Evanthestrange]

Had warts when I was a kid. I remember having 70 or more on my hands at their worst. Believe it or not, the duct tape method did work for me. No idea why.

[@dkamm65]

Let me add another anecdote. I had a wart on my finger when I was a teenager, and I kept it covered with duct tape 24/7. It ended up actually falling out entirely after a few weeks. Yes, there are easier and faster removal methods, but this did actually work for me.

[@ronmatthews1738]

While we're being anecdotal, I had a big wart on my thumb which I pulled out with a pair of pliers. I made sure I got the root out and it never came back.

[@Kneekneee]

@@ronmatthews1738 Wtf?!!!😱

[@jamespelham7797]

@@ronmatthews1738 you must’ve been bleeding n in pain

[@jeremyeagles3237]

Yep duct tape!!! Got a lot of warts as a kid. Always put duct tape on it. Never had to get them froze off. May not work for other people. But it sure did for me!

[@justwatching7638]

I wish warts were only caused by toads because I never touch toads

[@amaka.06]

Same bro

[@dukenukem7323]

Same bro

[@fitztastico]

To anyone dealing with warts that resist treatment, hopefully this helps someone else in the same scenario I was in - At one time I had 30+ warts on my left foot, 1 giant one on my left knee, and 12 or so on my left hand and no standard treatment worked (doc office or OTC). While the ones on my hand and some on my foot were roughly a year old, others like on my knee had been there 3+ years with zero improvement after many kinds of treatment. Finally, I decided to light matches, blow them out, and hold them to the wart. My theory was that doing so initiates a healing response that allows the body to recognize the virus and attack it (similar to freezing). The first round where I burned every single wart took long enough that I decided to treat my hand first and if it worked, then move on to my knee and foot. After about 5 weekly match sessions to the warts on my hand, they actually shrank and disappeared. Then, when I looked at my knee and foot I found they had COMPLETELY cleared without me realizing it. Mind you, over 30 warts on the bottom of one foot meant that it was absolutely _covered_ 5 weeks earlier and yet it looked like a foot that had never seen a wart. I'm not sure if the 1st match treatment is all that was necessary or if the next 4 weeks of work on my hand continued to stimulate my body's response, but I was so grateful to have found something that worked for me. Good luck!

[@louera]

I wonder of simply placing intense heat there, like a spoon that you dipped in hot water, could also work.

[@shaunbowen]

I did a similar thing on a verruca I had on my foot. I had tried those freezing kits from the chemist, but it didn't seem to help. So I took one of those giant paperclips, straightened it out and heated one end over a flame until it glowed red. I then held it against the warty tissue until the heat got too much to bear. After leaving this for a few minutes I cleaned the area with TCP to make sure it was sanitised. After 3 or 4 attempts the verruca cleared. I think it's a combination of killing the bits of skin with the virus, making the area less hospitable and forcing the immune system to get to work on the damaged area.

[@Ichthyodactyl]

I had a fairly large cluster (5-6) of big warts on my knee when I was a kid, tried a couple things to get rid of them to varying degrees of success, they always came back eventually though. Grandma put duct tape on my knee and told me not to touch it for 4 days. No more warts. Anecdotal maybe but there's definitely something going on there, I'd be curious to find out what.

[@ronniespeirs1808]

Funny that, I managed to get rid of mine by wearing a brass olive as a ring over the wart, 4 days later… gone! Maybe there’s something to covering them??

[@masteryoshi87]

I've had a couple of hand warts before. I used a clean razor blade and cut around the wart making sure to get all of it inside the razor cut. Then I wiggled it a little. Then I waited a day and wiggled it some more. I noticed it getting a bit dried out and tough. Then the next day I'd wiggle it and pull it out leaving a bit of a hole witch heals fully over a couple of weeks leaving no trace there was even a wart there in the first place.

[@skilegit]

When I was younger I had one on my thumb right next to the nail so freezing it off was excruciating. There's still a bit of a bump where the wart was. I also had one on my finger that I got rid of on my own by picking at it with nail clippers after taking showers. Eventually I basically cut it off and there was as much blood as popping a zit.

[@TheAverageAmazingMe]

If I get anxiety about these infections, could I be called a Worrywart?

[@jessechingon1204]

I had a wart on my knee when í was like 16? My parents bought me a treatment that was like glue, í put it on the wart and it hardend and like glue around it but it also burned a little. When ever it came off it made the wart smaller and smaller. It took about 2 weeks to remove it completely

[@Perspectologist]

I had very good results with Apple Cider Vinegar as a wart remover. I applied it daily (maybe twice daily, not sure) for a month or so. It irritated the skin more gradually than salicylic acid, but did a better job removing the wart. It was great for a particularly stubborn wart on the side of my nail on my finger. Freezing, lasers, salicylic acid, and even some prescription cream did not work. Apple Cider Vinegar was what finally worked.

[@mirceagogoncea]

For everyone worrying about cancer: the strains that cause cancer are generally not the same that cause visible warts. Also, infection with all kinds of low-risk strains is ubiquitous, and it is estimated almost half of all people are carriers of some kind of low-risk strain (or multiple). Your immume system generally takes care of everything! That being said, don't touch people with warts, if you can avoid it! Higher concentration of virus = more chances of infection. So even if your immue system is perfectly capable of handling the viral load of just touching regular HPV-infected surfaces around you, it might not be strog enough to deal with direct contact with a wart.

[@DiscoChixify]

So, explain how it’s possible to have warts but test negative for HPV. Because I have warts but don’t have HPV and was actually vaccinated for HPV when I was younger. I also tested negative for genital and oral Herpes. But I have warts on my back. I’ve been to a few different dermatologist and they’re confirming it’s warts and not some kind of other growth. I’ve heard there are some other diseases that can cause warts though. But I don’t have any STDs or STIs. It just doesn’t make sense to me.

[@DiscoChixify]

My only guess is that some warts are caused by HPV and since some are caused by other STDs and STIs there could be another infectious disease out there that’s not as well studied or widely spread. I was concerned at first that these warts might be something else because they’re not round. They’re like pillowy but with irregular boarders. They don’t have a head or any kind of discoloration, no speckling or anything. They’re 100% skin colored. Most of them show up by themselves without any other warts anywhere near them, but I have one or two that have a second wart next to them. It’s just really strange. I’ve had them for a few years now and they never change. They don’t look anything like the warts in the video.

[@dickrichard626]

@@DiscoChixify Not all warts are HPV, they just say things that mess with people, because in reality the understanding of what warts are is actually very limited and instead of explaining how and why that is, they just say things conclusively without explaining further details of why they are saying that... HPV is what caused the elephant man who developed "cancer" and "tumors" from it...,, when that doesn't even make sense, because HPV is not "cancer". HPV causes warts, one guy had it so bad, they called it "cancer". When it's not cancer... Sometimes people confuse diseases and just incorrectly use terms by being inspecific with them... It's not really cancer... People have a hard enough time with telling the difference between cold, which is a "virus" and flu which is a bacterial "infection"... 😆 🤣 😂 You don't get tested... Corona proved how stupid and afraid people are about diseases when in reality your always surrounded by them and the odds of you never being infected is less than the odds of infection. It really creates confusion in people about different diseases when they throw terms around without adhereing to a strict definition... The outcome is merely similar to developing tumors all over your body, but cancer is really just when part your own body starts having mutated cells replicate out of control with out something else happening and the causes are only either your bodies way of keeping track and disposing random mutated cells stops working on it's own or you were exposed to radiation or a chemical that poisoned your body into allowing mutated cells to get out of control. Warts are viruses, many different viruses, you can look up the different types of warts. The problem is that viruses are very small and excedingly difficult to study so it's basically next to impossible to tell the exact difference between them other then by calling them by how they develop on the skin. Planters warts, HPV, ect... The only diseases you really need to worry about unless you are immune compromised are STD's...

[@mommabear5537]

See I definitely don't have HPV or cancer

[@jeaniebird999]

I used to pick at a wart, on my palm, sometimes removing (seemingly) all of it, but, of course, it grew back. Then, one day in high school, I was especially bored and was digging away, with my pocket knife, and dug extra deep, this time, and eventually pulled the WHOLE thing out. The weirdest part of all, is that it had a ROOT! It had what looked exactly like a root that was about 4-5 times longer than the wart was wide. It never grew back, after that.

[@CodeKirby]

damn

[@nittanyburg20]

I've only ever had one wart. It was on my hand when I was a kid and it took years to go away. Countless treatments, freezing, etc. I even scratched and picked at it until it was gone and bled a lot. But it always came back, until one day it just didn't

[@SonLeDang]

I dropped a speck of super glue over mine. Waited half a day, peeled the dry layer off and applied another new layer. Repeat for about a week and the wart literally imploded it self and died. I think the dried glue blocked off its oxygen intake. And the act of peeling the layer also slowy removing the incapacitated virus.

[@thuzan117]

I used to have a few on my hands when I was a kid, not massive or particularly noticeable and I didn't know what they were for a long time, when I found out though my family got them Frozen off with an over the counter kit, then treated what was left when they peeled off with some creams/ lotions for a bit. that, combined with making sure to scrape away as much dead skin from the site afterward as I could on a regular basis lead to them disappearing completely, not a trace of them. It's been over a decade so far and I haven't gotten any since so I either got a resistance to them or I haven't gotten into a situation where it could infect me. The point is they aren't a big deal and they actually aren't that painful to remove via freezing, you don't feel much but a slight burning sensation from the cold, like touching ice, and even that is dulled since the wart itself doesn't really feel anything and it's over after a few seconds. Slap a bandaid on and in a day or two it will fall right off. After that just treat and clean the site for maybe a week or two and problem solved. They are weird but not a big problem and there's no reason to be afraid of getting them removed. Hope this helps someone.

[@Euphytoseful]

I remember when I went to freeze the few I had on my toes, the guy said "you can swear, it could help". The pain was really insane. The kind where you don't even want to yell.

[@autumns9766]

I had a huge wart on my foot for a long time. It hurt a lot, but I didn't know what it was. Eventually I searched it up and figured out it was a wart. I used the salicylic acid on it and it was gone in just over a week. Thank goodness!

[@K87jk]

I had 2 on my left foot for a year and they where killing me. So after trying everything I had to get them surgically removed and thank God I don't have em anymore. The lesson I have learned: Don't take showers at the gym,go home after a workout and take a shower. :P

[@octaviocuautle8181]

you can take showers in gym. just wear slides or something

[@MarkusSchober]

Yep don't ever be barefoot in a gym. I got a plantar wart after only one time. Plantar warts pretty much have to be surgically removed by a doctor. It's pretty quick and painless though. Other kinds of warts can be treated at home (except genital).

[@MarkusSchober]

And yes, flip flops are sufficient "protection" 😆

[@alureon1]

Not entirely true. I got a plantar wart the same way (gym). It took over most of my foot, it was insane. With persistence, and buying random wart products off amazon with massive band-aids, I finally beat the bastards. It took months, though. They've been gone for over a year.

[@Monkeywe]

The worst I've gotten was athlete's foot, my room smelled like french cheese for a month, I didn't even notice until my aunt came in and almost passed out from the stench. Moral of the story, never shower where you exercise unless you got something to wear like flip-flops or something.

[@austinmiller1097]

As someone who's had warts before, I can attest that duct tape and freezing does work, granted it took awhile, but it did work

[@charlesprogrammr642]

My doctor recommended vitamin A in the largest doses you can buy. After about a month or two, every one of them fell out, even ones I didn't know I had, dozens of them on the soles of my feet. Worked for my brother too, and a former co-worker, who had a Plantar wart covering over half of one of his soles.

[@mariamnersisyan2511]

As someone who had warts in my teens, I can tell you that over the counter anti wart medications didn't work for me.. what did work was taking a banana peel, and putting crushed garlic on the inside of the peel and wrapping it on the infected area with a tape or a cloth overnight - I am not exaggerating when I say that warts went away within a DAY. Give it a shot! Btw I have heard from a doctor that HPV in warts isnt the same as genital HPV, can you please expand on that further? Thanks!

[@l.t2838]

Ghostface killah how did it go?

[@aricg03]

how long did you do this to get rid of your wart ?

[@MaggieSimons]

Apple cider vinegar works too! Depriving the warr of oxygen is key!

[@catherine_404]

While warts are caused by hpv (I trust this channel), it's not caused by dangerous hpv strains. I had warts several times in my life, and I also got tested for hpv strains not once. I don't have those bad strains in me. Maybe these strains can also cause warts, I don't have that information, but you can definitely have hpv warts and yet be safe.

[@ajhoward8888]

I had hands covered in warts as a teen. All if the sudden they were everywhere. Went to have them checked by my GP who decided to inject each hand with something he referred to as a "chemotherapy drug." Every single wart turned black and fell off within the day. Apart from the actual shot, the process didn't hurt at all and I've never had another wart in 30+ years.

[@TheArchanjel]

Uhm... That sounds.. nevermind, I'm sure you turned out fine. 😂😅

[@ajhoward8888]

Yeah, it was a very weird memory. I looked it up years later in college and it turns out they do sometimes use Interferon to treat warts. As long as it's just injected topically (into the wart itself), apparently it's relatively safe. That said, I don't think they do it much anymore.

[@pixx3461]

A little over a year ago, I had this wart on my index finger that was making it really hard to write in school. So, frustrated, I snipped it off with nail clippers. 😫 It hurt a bit, but it was honestly worth it.

[@CodeKirby]

Achievement Unlocked: *Hardcore*

[@donnadanielsen9411]

@@CodeKirby 😂

[@bradyvoyles1224]

Raw af

[@sujoms]

I had one on top of my right hand. I had enough of it, so i heated a knife and started burning the wart. After it was burnt, i got out a sharper knife and started cutting it off... it actually worked

[@justinjacobe]

That's what I did! I had one on my big toe, I carved it off with a blade. It grew back twice and I just carve the area every time. Hahaha.

[@SleepyNoddy]

A couple of years ago my hands broke out in warts, it was totally weird. I got them frozen off, took a while but it was cool seeing a doctor use the nitrogen gas.

[@camgood2437]

My doctor told me when I was a kid that tape might alert the immune system that something is going on in that area by making it moister, thus sending lots of antibodies to it..

[@jerryhu79]

As a practicing physician, this video is really educational for lay public. One thing I would suggest for future is to discuss/stress the importance of nona-valent HPV vaccine that is currently available for age 9-26 years of age, ultimately "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure".

[@obrkenobi1170]

Ey Michaels back!

[@emilypresleysee]

My son got them when he was in preschool from a kid in his class. Luckily, the ones on his hands fell off but he ended up with one on his tongue. The back of it, near his throat. It developed a granuloma around it and had to be cut out by our ENT.

[@davidfreeman4343]

I had one on my knee that was huge and lasted for years and then i just noticed it was gone one day. Warts are weird af

[@ihartevil]

if you ask the wart to go away and disappear it will do so my brother did that for all of his warts

[@kendrarodriguez6846]

If you want the best method for removing moles, warts, or skin tags then go here now: SkinGood.info

[@tehPete]

I had a verucca (basically a foot wart) for about 10 years - the docs kept saying it would go away on its own but it never did, and eventually got bigger and spread to other parts of the foot making walking a constant pain. I tried all the easy ways of getting rid of them including the duct tape trick and nothing worked - in the end I went through a couple of months burning and cutting the buggers out layer by layer, twice a day or so with salicylic acid and scalpel blades. Painful, but effective.

[@QAoA]

When I was 7 I had warts all over my body, mostly on my hands and feet. One day when my mom was sick and tired of my complaining, she looked at me and said "Next week we're going to the doctor's office and getting your warts burned off." Two days later my warts were completely gone and I haven't had any since.

[@eliasnestor9482]

That's funny

[@levi12howell]

This is CRAZY... I was just thinking about where warts came from and here is a video on it.., are you guys in my head?

[@TweeklyLOVER]

Aren't they only contagious if the wart is opened up? And do I still have the virus even tho the warts are gone? Is the virus only in that part of the skin where the warts are or can the virus spread from there on out?

[@KelciiPG]

Duct tape trick worked for me. It took me several iterations and about 2 months of trying. What finally worked was soaking the affecfed areas in warm water for 15 minutes, then covering completely with duct tape. I left the duct tape on for 7 days and if the tape showed any signs of falling off, I would add more tape on top instead of replacing the old tape. That did the trick painlessly and without any scarring.

[@lizzie1391]

What?! I had hpv?! Yes, I know I still have it!!!

[@CatsEyes13]

Lizzie Mackevicius, you still do. The virus doesn't go away once you have it.

[@ssgoko88]

Lizzie Mackevicius still do. It's a virus, with you for life.

[@meganjensen8354]

wait if it never goes away could I randomly get warts?

[@liquidminds]

Megan Jensen Like most of these infections, they come and go with the strength of your immune system. The little blatters you can get around your mouth (not sure what they are called, not a native speaker) are also a viral infection, that only shows its effects when the immune-system is low. for example because of stress.

[@Chipz702]

Vivek Lasserre job vaccines only protect us from the genital warts.

[@wingedone6512]

I had recurring warts as a kid. I had several on my hands and some on my feet. I laughed when the video mentioned duct tape; that's exactly how I coped with my warts! I had them for years, and after all that time spent trying the medical solutions, I just wrapped myself up in duct tape. Took a few weeks, but they finally went away! Interesting about the black dots; I always thought they were seeds. >_>

[@Gorilla_Chaos]

I had a wart on my pinky, directly in the middle of it (The side with your palm) so i thoght it was a pimple and tired to pop it. Then stupidity took place and I stuck a sewing needle through it, and started picking at it. Disgustingly enough, i killed the center, but not the outside, so it kinda began to "blossom" out and grow bigger, so one sunday i legit picked at it so much that i ripped of a massive chunk of skin and boom, there's a slight scar but all gone.

[@TooMuchTigerero]

The Outcast All you need is apple cider vinegar it kills warts like no other if you get another one ever I hate them

[@brandondycus6928]

The Outcast I use needles to get rid of my warts to

[@theincarnationofboredom207]

I did the exact same thing except with a tack, and it just became worse so i gave up. not like it's visible, anyway. (it's on my chest, lol)

[@IamAeroDynamic]

I removed a wart from my thumb years ago using only nail clippers, it bled a lot but didn't hurt as much as I expected it to be.

[@katherinemlorelei]

When I was a kid I had a wart on the palm of my hand, not in the middle but right under my pinky. It really bothered me. Eventually I ripped it off. Hurt like hell for a bit, but no more wart! Warning: Not recommended at all. Seriously, ask a doctor what to do, I was just a stupid kid.

[@oaphle6612]

I had a wart once.. a seed wart, and it took almost a year with treatment to go away. first we did the acid band aids then we tried freezing it and once this was done the wart was dead but it was still there. it took months of me picking at it before one day I got down to the seed and I had to pull it out with tweezer. that was the most painful thing I've ever experienced in my life..

[@babyeater2336]

I've got a wart on my hand I got some scissors and as fast as I could cut the wart off, it grew back so I did it 2 more times, hurt a lot, and bled a lot

[@scottswan9292]

I had a big one on my middle knuckle for many years. The doctors would freeze it but it always came back. Finally a doctor in the USAF put Cantharidin, or beetle juice as he called it, on and wrapped my hand like a mummy. It hurt, quite a bit, but after 2 or 3 treatments of that it was finally gone and has never returned.

[@sharlennla4982]

I had a wart on the bottom of my toe and my doctor froze it. She said it will fall of in a few weeks. 2 MONTHS LATER nothing literally happened so I decided to pick of the whole wart with a safety pin. Now it's gone forever lol 😂

[@subaruimpreza298]

Sharlenn La Didnt that hurt? I have one under my foot and Im afraid to pull it.

[@sharlennla4982]

Subaru Impreza nope I didn't bleed up anything it was literally skin with hair thingies called roots

[@sharlennla4982]

Kidou Yuuto lol

[@LividImp]

Warts on your foot are especially painful. If you were able to pick it off, then it was already dead from the freezing but had just not fallen off. If it was still alive, you'd had passed out from the pain.

[@sharlennla4982]

Livid Imp I can't step on my wart because my wart was like on the back of the "stem" of the toe Idk what's it called

[@emilyvinall3512]

I used to have lots of warts on my hands that did not want to go away. They all suddenly got small and then disappeared and I had no explanation for it. However, the time when they disappeared coincided with me getting the HPV vacinne. Since I have had a few small warts appear but would disappear soon after.

[@Zoe-mo3rx]

This one time when I was in the third grade this girl had warts on her hands and she told everyone they weren't contagious. She would always pick at them and then touch things without washing her hands. Eventually many other kids got warts ☹️

[@cycle8120]

Actually, the cancer thing is new to me. Thanks for the new knowledge! I'll keep it in mind for when I maybe get a wart someday.

[@nominatorchris5591]

I member my mom did that the duck tape thing. But we was poor so we had to use a real duck.

[@therealjammit]

My theory for the duct tape thing is that it prevents it from spreading. When it doesn't spread it gives your body less wart material to fight so it can use more resources.

[@theanarchist5005]

I remember when I was a kid I had warts on all my fingers and one day my brother convinced me to let him pop one and of course it hurt really bad and it burnt so we were running around while he was pulling my hand to cold places like a fan and ice because he didn’t want our mom to know😂good times

[@motheraiya]

When I was a kid, I was taught that the black specks were "seeds" and that you had to pick them out. I had a few in my hands, and ended up with a big one on top of my left foot that just kinda peeled off one day.

[@mikegould6590]

I've had planter warts on my right foot for 10 months. I've tried over the counter salycitic acid, NO2 freezing, and prescription level acidic treatments. They just grow back. I'm about to the point of either a blow torch or using a red hot knife.

[@hamzamazalovic9968]

Had over 40 warts on my both hands, probably got them while training basketball. Tried everything even freezing them. Did not help, then my hands started itching and I had an urge to wash my hands like 10 times a day. I still belive i washed them off....

[@ebook3]

My wart is just sitting on the top of my house, spitting bubbles at me. What do?

[@JayPea7204]

our doctor prescribed tape for my daughter's warts on her feet. She thought it was the coolest thing ever and walked around for a couple of weeks with duct tape on her feet. The warts went away and did not come back. Our doctor said tape irritates the skin and that can cause your body to step up its defenses and shed the wart. It doesn't work with everyone, but it worked for us.

[@Master_Therion]

My favorite Star Trek character was the Klingon, Lt. Wart.

[@sandreid87]

Go home, Luke. You're drunk - Wrong franchise!

[@businesschicken8699]

Master Therion I loved him in DP 9!

[@Voidwurm1701]

You mean Mr Woof?

[@GrandmasterFerg]

Q'aplap!

[@legoobi-wankenobi3080]

The Seal of Orichalcos.

[@drewbuckley8139]

About the duct tape thing.. When I was young I got a wart on the bottom if my foot, I was so young my doctor didn’t want to freeze it off as that is really painful so she recommended using duct tape. I would put on a fresh piece 2 times a day, once when I woke up and I would replace it before I went to bed. After about a week I had taken off the duct tape when I woke up to put on a fresh piece. Sure enough the whole wart was stuck to the tape and it came off painlessly. The way it came off so cleanly will always seem like magicly. I will forever preach the cheap effectiveness of duct tape for wart removal.

[@danielhatfield8355]

Yo guys I have a wart on my left hand that straight up wont go away. Ive tried creams, soft acid, those cold wart remover things that freeze them off. Heck, Ive cut the darn thing off with nail clippers and it grew back! Ive had it for a few years now. It doesnt seem to be anything serious but it bugs the crap out of me. Ive had warts before and Ive always gotten rid of them. Could you tell me another way to get rid of it without going through surgery? I dont have the money to pay for it. Is this a specific type of wart or is this one just being mean?

[@50PullUps]

Mega Potato Nail clippers wont do. You gotta get a serraded blade and cut DEEP beneath the skin. It hurts, and its bloody. But that has worked every time with me.

[@Roll587]

Mega Potato DO NOT EVER CUT IT OUT YOURSELF. Go to a doctor.

[@ketchuplady2979]

Mega Potato I've heard you can burn them off I don't know if that works or not I've never had a wart

[@octaviocuautle8181]

have you tried dabbing on it?

[@Chipz702]

Mega Potato this might help, so first off don't reuse anything you use to cut off the wart because it can reinfect the skin. Go to the doctors and have them freeze it off with liquid nitrogen. While you are in the process of treating the wart take tagamet (a heartburn medicine) one pill a day (it will boost your immune system and help fight off the wart virus more effectively.) It worked for me and also helped me from getting sick for the past 6 months. Ps I am not a doctor and feel free to do your own research and ask a doctor. Best wishes to you and hope this helps.

[@Omfgwhtavid]

The freezing and acid never work, duct tape is definitely the way to go. I didn't think it could possibly help, but after suffering with them all my life I gave it a go and now I'm wart free.

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

Warts are farts that weren't set free!

[@ramune940]

LOVE OF PLANTS 🌻 lol

[@Implosion-Gaming]

When I was about 6, I had like 5 warts on one hand for about 6 months and tried the wart remover that burns them and it only removed 1 wart. Suddenly a month passed and all the warts were gone. I also had a wart when I was 4 and my parents told me it was a splinter and ripped it off. So much *blood.*

[@OMGshinyobject]

Duct tape 100% works if you are patient and keep changing it to make sure the seal is good

[@OMGshinyobject]

Also I got rid of my first ever wart by heating up a nail with a gas stove burner and pressing it into the wart when it was red hot. It never came back

[@stelamo]

or you could just use sand paper , or a matchbox !

[@TooMuchTigerero]

All you need is apple cider vinegar it kills warts like no other I swear it

[@masteryoshi87]

Cut it out with a clean razor blade. Only cut around around it then 2 days later pull it now stiff hard ass out. Their may be a small hole but it heals fully.

[@VMilky-dt6kr]

when i was young i had a giant wart on my knee, then after a few years it spread to multiple large watts on that knee and it looked pretty disgusting. They stayed for at least a year and we tried multiple over the counter treatments but none seemed to work. Finally we tried duct tape and it disappeared a week later. I don't know why but i'm glad my mum used to watch doctor oz.

[@yaboy_jj1717]

lol, what cant ducttape do?

[@AmyMcLean]

I've only ever had one wart. It was on my foot and duct tape worked. I changed it every day and after about a month the center of the wart just pulled out, stuck to the tape. I'm pretty sure it was, like they said, depriving the skin of oxygen. But I didn't have to freeze it, burn it or surgically removed it, so yay.

[@drunkenrampage1588]

Damn. I thought Jerry Seinfeld would be in this video.

[@rmcron5296]

Salicylic acid alone could not get rid of my wart. I was extremely frustrated after a year of treating the wart with multiple home remedies so I googled it. A combination of duct tape being left on for a number of days and salicylic acid being applied when changing the tape is the only thing that I got it to go away. The duct tape, for whatever reason, got the healing process started. I've recommended it to my friends who have had warts show up ever since!

[@uss_04]

WARTS the Deal with WARTS?

[@luke_bardin7506]

Oregano is great for removal as well! Worked both times I did it just keep applying every night and covering it with duct tape. Takes about 1 month to completely remove it but you can see results in the first week or 2

[@nominatorchris5591]

I thought you said hiv.

[@brennangleason2997]

@Grammar Police *HIV

[@BluntforceJ]

it's like rain on your wedding day It's a free ride when you've already paid It's the good advice that you just didn't take Who would've thought, it figures

[@dirtydan5404]

Grammar Police Grammar police*

[@brennangleason2997]

@Dirty Dan I think "Grammar Police" was the worst name this person could have. 😂

[@KittenoftheBroccoli]

I had a couple warts on my some of my fingers and toes for about a year and a half, then all of a sudden, they started shrinking and were gone in the span of a week.

[@1996madruga]

so... are warts considered cancer?

[@francismeowgannou5322]

madruga I guess so. Uncontrolled division of abnormal cells.

[@arousedsquirrel2429]

They are tumors, not cancer. They can't spread through the blood.

[@kendrarodriguez6846]

If you want the best method for removing moles, warts, or skin tags then go here now: SkinGood.info

[@iworks]

Kendra Rodriguez That just brings me to amazon.

[@Drhumbolt]

Galaxy Soup psa dont click random links on KZbin or most places. If you must click find a link checker find out if its safe.

[@michaeldaugustine9249]

I had a series of three small warts on my forearm once. My cure was to just pick them off with my fingernails. They bled... a lot. But some hydrogen peroxide to prevent the virus from reinfecting and some neosporin and bandaids and I was all healed up in about a week.

[@ashonshakya]

Why can you hold pee but not stop it in the middle of peeing ?

[@raihanislam912]

Ashon Shakya I can

[@krashd]

You can stop mid-pee if you are a guy, you just squeeze the hose a bit like a fireman. However, I wouldn't recommend turning the nozzle, that just leads to a bad habit that can make you go blind.

[@adisillusionedidiotandpast7865]

Rob Fraser masturbation can't make you go blind...

[@ZeDlinG67]

As a child I had a lot of warts (over 30!) on both of my hands, first the doctors cut them off, but they grew back. An old lady suggested that I apply the saliva of a common weed Vérrehulló fecskefű (Chelidonium majus). The plant itself is very common in Europe, and it had a distinctive orange saliva. I applied it 2-4 times a day on every wart, and they disappeared in a few days! Easy solution, no pain, just a little work; and if you want to plant it in your garden - don't! It is a very versatile weed, and you won't be bale to weed it out after a while, it will spread like fire.

[@username4239]

Yummy wart juice 💦💦😛😛

[@mollybrown2064]

Username wtf 😂

[@dabiskitt]

Username what even

[@chinchillaandguineapigsirony]

Cool fetish bro

[@neuron1618]

mother of wart...

[@yunthi]

old finnish folk remedy for them. take ash from birch tree, mix it with water. after sauna and shower, apply the paste on the wart, rub it in. (feel free to wash it away after) wait a couple weeks and itl peel away. worked for me, no idea if its placebo or something and no idea why it would work. but it did.

[@dabiskitt]

HEY, you're back!!

[@Masonredpanda]

when i was young I used to have a lot of warts on my hands, like 17 or 21 if I remember right, and my dad told me it doesn't hurt that bad to get them frozen off. that was the worst lie I had ever heard. I had second degree burns, and blisters all over my hands from the liquid nitrogen. but no more warts

[@commodorezelda]

When I was a kid, I got one wart on each hand around the same time that my brother got one on his foot. We tried getting mine frozen off by a dermatologist, but it didn't work; I had to go back and have them cut out (and I still have the scars). My brother had the one on the sole of his foot surgically removed, and the"root" of it was so deep in the tissue that they had to cut in over half an inch deep to remove it all.

[@d4rk0v3]

Please do a video covering the Aglal Bloom crisis of Lake Erie! We need more national attention and pressure on our local and state governments to fix this!

[@madscientistshusta]

d4rk0v3 not my problem i live in seattle!

[@Wraithguard92]

I once had 36, all on the undersides of my fingers. I only had 3 or 4 at first, but then we tried to freeze them off and they spread. I tried acid, and that didn't work. I had surgery done to physically cut them off, but they still grew back. The freezing was by far the worst part. They had grown in cluster near my joints, to the point that I couldn't bend some of my fingers at a 90 degree angle. They had cores buried inside my dermal skin (from which they grew). According to my doctor, the cores had to come out, but surgery would have been to invasive, so we had to freeze them with liquid nitrogen and create blood blisters underneath the clusters. This was extremely painful, and I had to have it done in 5 to 6 places at a a time on a single hand. The blisters would force the layers of my skin to "come up" as it healed, and carry the cores with them. We tried to numb my fingers before hand, but topical ointments weren't strong enough to numb my entire finger. I once had the doctor inject lidocaine into one of my fingers, but the needle injection was even worse than the liquid nitrogen. The worst party was waiting for the blisters to become large enough that i could cut into the sides of the now dead skin to drain them, before cutting the rest away. The skin that remained underneath had a smaller "wart" bump that was gradually smaller each time. My fingers were largely unusable while this was happening, so we would alternate hands every two weeks. It took two years of on and off treatments during my last two years of high school before they finally started to recede.

[@oeeveemkittygfreak]

You in the US? I had planters warts on my toes that only spread to everything it touched after trying to freeze them. They dug so deep into my skin, I'd have believed them to be attached to my bones! I ended up spreading it to my little brother tho, so parents brought him to the doctor (not me, go figure.) And the doc gave him a kind of cream for it. No idea what, but I started using it too! After about a week or two, the wart just.. fell off. It was probably a 1/4 inch in diameter and deep. Pretty gross. Your experience sounds like what I was expecting before the doc prescribed that cream! A total nightmare!!!

[@zakiducky]

I literally got a wart two days ago, my first one ever as far as I can recall, and then I see this in my feed today. Coincidence? I think not!

[@abderrahmane4332]

do you still have it now ?

[@zakiducky]

Apocalyse lolol I didn’t even remember watching this video or commenting, so I appreciate you replying and reminding me of this 2 years later. No, I don’t have it anymore. Best I can recall, it was on the side of my finger or something starting from some knick that I kept agitating while working and so wouldn’t heal. Probably was gone later the same month. Lmao

[@A54P4L]

During my kid-teen years and even into adulthood i struggled with warts. I had 30 plus warts on my hands. It was so embarrassing so I would try to hide them by clenching my fists and knotting my fingers. I tried a few different methods to get rid of them but none worked. It gave me lots of social anxiety and kept me from doing so many things. And then randomly they started disappearing. They may be gone for now but the scars they left on my life will haunt me forever.

[@SuperManning11]

Does this mean we could get the HPV vaccine and be immune from warts? As in plantar warts on feet?

[@merc9nine]

Finger nail clippers work great if you got the stones for it.

[@gezabistyak1821]

I had a wart on the webbing in between my index finger and my thumb for about 3 years, but it died after a day of manually digging a hole. I also had another wart that I just picked/pulled out, but that hurts. Would not recommend either of these treatments but they worked for me

[@iamzifoe826]

I had a wart on my hand a few years ago. I tried that wart remover, the one that freezes the wart. It didn't work even after using the whole canister. So one day I got my pocket knife and cut it out, it was painful, but I haven't had a wart since.

[@pisachanation414]

When I was a kid, maybe 9 or 10, I discovered a wart on the back of my right arm, just above my elbow joint. Im a female. I was a tom boy and liked to catch toads and other tom boy stuff. However, I never picked up a toad with my right elbow! My mom started putting iodine on it at least once a day. We lived on a lake and it was impossible to stay out of it in the summer, so she usually put the iodine on it in the evening. It took about two weeks, but the iodine did the job painlessly. The wart slowly disappeared.

[@AlvaroChuquiureZadig]

Actually ducl tape works and a dermatologist sugest it to a friend and totally worked, it smothered the wart.

[@inquaanate2393]

My sister once had a wart. She is very strong willed and once, when she was seven she said that she did one want it and bit it off. It was gone in two weeks and never came back.

[@eileeng2715]

Power Inqu'aanate She a true gangsta

[@user-mh2gb2mo1m]

LOL

[@Monkeywe]

Warts are probably the most disgusting thing someone can have in my opinion, it's not that I judge the person because as a kid I also had a few warts but whenever I see a kid with warts or anyone I come clear and tell them to not touch me, I avoid it as if it were leprosy.

[@SoulDelSol]

Basically those treatments trigger immune system response and help your body identify problem area. Eventually if you're healthy (eg non smoker for instance) your body can keep virus under control. Often bad infections may require a few treatments (they recur) before your body is finally able to effectively identify and suppress virus