Or your health care provider might cut off a small section of the growth and send it to a lab for testing. You won’t need to use a plaster, because it dries fast to create a water-resistant protective barrier that also helps to stop the infection spreading. Bazuka Sub-Zero should not be used more than 3 times on individual warts or verrucas, and each freezing application should be at least two weeks apart.

Skip down the page to discover which wart removers we recommend for different types of user and wart. At this point I have successfully treated hundreds of adenomas and similar small skin growths on both dogs and cats.On the morning of the 7th day, take off the duct tape, soak the wart in warm water and file off the dead skin with a pumice stone or emory board. Because surgery has a risk of scarring, it's not often used to treat plantar warts unless other treatments have failed. You usually need to repeat the treatment every two to three weeks until the wart has gone, up to a maximum of six times. Hold the activator cap down on the surface with one hand and remove the device with the other, taking care not to overturn the cap. A health care provider usually diagnoses a plantar wart by looking at it or cutting off the top layer with a scalpel and checking for dots.

Most people experience minor pain during cryosurgery and a burning sensation when the skin thaws afterward. Current guidelines recommend having two cryosurgery sessions for wart removal, but more may be necessary, depending on the size of the wart. The most common appearance is that of a small cauliflower-type growth on the soles of your feet with tiny black dots.If you use nail files or pumice stones on your wart or verruca, don’t share these or use on other areas of your skin. The solution then dries, but it doesn’t form quite as protective a barrier as Bazuka, so you’ll need to stick a plaster on top. Our Verruca and Wart Remover Freeze Spray is a fast, effective and easy to use treatment for removal of verrucas and warts. They may have tiny black dots in the centre – these are blood clots that have formed in tiny blood vessels. Bazuka Sub-Zero can be used whenever the removal of a wart or verruca is required, excluding warts near the face, armpits, breasts, bottom or genital (sex) area.

Read on to learn about cryotherapy, including how it compares to other treatments for warts, what the procedure is like, and the recovery process. First you warm the precision metal tip in water, then use it to penetrate the built-up dead skin and deliver a concentrated dose of freezing dimethyl ether gas. No more than 3 freezing applications of Bazuka Sub-Zero should be used for any one treatment episode for a single wart or verruca, and each freezing application should be at least two weeks apart. Verruca-Freeze is a hand held aerosol canister that contains a proprietary, highly optimized formulation of refrigerated gases that medical professionals can use for cryosurgery and cryotherapy in an outpatient setting to freeze a lesion down to -70°C (-94°F). Due to the temperature of the gas, after just a few seconds of use, the core of the wart will be reached and destroyed.

Some seem to show it is more effective than salicylic acid; others show it does not have any convincing benefit. It should not be used on feet which have reduced feeling or poor circulation (such as if you have diabetes).