Mundane thread

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Velociraptor Jan 2020 1:09pm, 29 Jan 2020 45,057 posts	0 Velociraptor Warts are more responsive than verrucas to cryotherapy. Simplified, the principle of treatment is to damage the wart so that wart virus enters the bloodstream, is identified by the immune system (which at the moment is unaware of the warts even though they look the size of a house when you see them in the mirror - this is why if you cut a wart out it often just recurs at the same site), and antibodies against the virus are manufactured and the warts all disappear, without scarring as long as the skin hasn't been damaged by overenthusiastic attempts to get rid of them. I sympathise with your lad, Dio. For most of my time at medical school the back of my right hand was a hideous mass of warts, then at some point in my final year they all just disappeared. I have a scar at the base of my left thumb from when a colleague froze a single wart for me and I was like, "Nah, nah, you're not freezing it ENOUGH! Freeze MORE!" I ended up with a proper corker of a thermal burn and it was all my own fault.
Velociraptor Jan 2020 1:11pm, 29 Jan 2020 45,058 posts	0 Velociraptor I don't mind having a "look" at persistent verrucas in adults with a sharp blade. Sometimes they're corns. And paring corns is one of the few miracles I'm allowed to perform (actually I'm not, they should pay a podiatrist to do it, but it's SO satisfying).
Serendippily Jan 2020 1:42pm, 29 Jan 2020 15,920 posts	0 Serendippily Reminds me of my best mate a Cornish lass with tawny gold skin who was covered in a light dusting of white freckles. She went on holiday with her dance instructor and family - husband was a skin specialist. The subject of freckles came up and he leaned in: “I believe they’re some kind of wart”. More proof sometimes you’re best off without the official view
Purps Jan 2020 1:47pm, 29 Jan 2020 37,766 posts	0 Purps I really started something here!
Lip Gloss Jan 2020 1:56pm, 29 Jan 2020 38,035 posts	0 Lip Gloss I'm still in my nightie and dressing gown although I have been busy doing my housework Best get showered and dressed now as I don't think Alfie would like me collecting him from school in my might wear
Lip Gloss Jan 2020 1:56pm, 29 Jan 2020 38,036 posts	0 Lip Gloss night
halfpint Jan 2020 1:58pm, 29 Jan 2020 29,933 posts	0 halfpint Hmm! I am pleased that QP will be disadvantaged in the climbing department but he will not be happy to hear that he has to put up with a painful verruca.
Mazlin Jan 2020 2:16pm, 29 Jan 2020 7,819 posts	0 Mazlin I’m not sure if I’m more intrigued by going on holiday with your dance instructor, by the thought of freckles being a type of wart. (They aren’t, as far as I know. Freckles are collections of pigment-producing skin cells and warts are made of cells infected by wart virus(es)) or by the idea that anyone would think that mentioning them was a suitable topic for light conversation.
Dr PhFleecyD Jan 2020 2:20pm, 29 Jan 2020 48,422 posts	0 Dr PhFleecyD someone let me know when you’ve stopped discussing foot growths please? I need to have an afternoon snack in lieu of dinner and suddenly I’m not that hungry! Corrections have been approved, though I spotted yet more typos and tiny errors so I’ve updated yet again
Lip Gloss Jan 2020 2:48pm, 29 Jan 2020 38,037 posts	0 Lip Gloss I did try Fleecy but guess being still in my nightie at 2pm couldn't stop them. Off to collect Alfie then a coffee in Starbucks while waiting for his mum