Flakey feet

This shows quite nicely how dry the feet are. The orange skin is just flaking off and new pink skin is showing underneath.
Am trying to decide if this heel is actually free from verrucas now. Its so hard to tell.
I am now going to stop the tea tree on this heel and just moisturise it to give the skin a chance to recover. I am continuing the tea tree, scraping and varnishing on the top part of the foot though.

Slight change of attack

Bad photos due to light, but the redness is from the scraping. Feet are really really dry so I'm going to take a gamble and stop the taping but continue with spotting on the tea tree oil. This way I can moisturise the sides and bottom of my foot. I'm going to use baby moisturiser as that should be nice and gentle. I'm going to try and block out the light and stop reinfection by covering the remaining verrucas with nail varnish.

Are they dying or not?

The skin on the foot is getting drier and drier. Its definately changing, I wish I knew for certain at what point they are definately dead.

Must update more regularly!!!!

Not sure at all whats going on with the white areas. They are all places where the oldest verrucas were, I don't know if this means they are gone or not.

Still tea treeing, scraping and taping. My skin is really begining to dry out now.















The top of the foot is scraping off nicely, I think it is because these were the newest, and were not so deeply rooted.

Have started to banana the top of the foot now as I felt they weren't improving enough. Its really hard getting it to stay in place though, and much harder to scrape as I'm really sensitive on this part of my foot.

No more banana

We are using baby wipes to clean the foot every morning before scraping it with the razor. We have also started to cover the parcel tape with black duck tape in the hope that we are blocking all light from the verruca.
We are also now swopping the banana for tea tree oil. We dab it on each verruca morning and evening using a cotton bud.

Treatment changes

Treatment has changed slightly. We are now scraping over the heel with a disposable razor before applying the banana to try and remove some of the white dead skin.















Notice how the large crator at the side of the foot has lessened considerably.

Small changes

The craters seem to be filling in now. Not sure if the black is dead verruca or left over banana as its really hard to clean the banana off.

On and On

You can see how the banana is drawing the verrucas out It actually looks as if I have more, but I think its just that they are all coming to the surface.

Whatever the banana is doing, the verrucas don't seem to like it

Big Changes

What words can describe this................

The white puffy skin around each of the veruccas is increasing and the craters are getting deeper. Already it is less painful to walk.

Treatment continues, replacing banana skin every morning. You need to remember to place the pith side onto the verruca not the outside of the skin.

Lets start at the begining..............

I think I must have got my first verruca in Year 4 so I would have been around 10 at the time. Thats school swimming lessons for you I suppose.

I didn't really go to the doctors until they got really bad when I was 14. The doctors said they would go away eventually and not to worry. A year later my mum took me back to the doctors. By this time it was sooo painful to walk I think I had around 45 verruccas, mainly on my left heel, with a about 8 or so on the ball of my foot and around 5 on the other foot. Once again the doctor said they would go away on their own. We did however manage to get a small tube of white cream for them. The whole tube hardly covered one foot and it was meant to last a week. Needless to say to didn't work they were too well established.

We have tried Bazooka, the Wartner freezing stuff and the extra strong Bazooka but nothing had worked.

We have decided that we have to come up with a solution ourselves.

So this blog is the story of how we are going to get rid of these damn verrucas. We have found lots of information on the internet about banana skins and that is what we are going to try.















This is the worst heel, yesterday evening we cut up the inside of a banana skin and put each bit over each verruca on the heel and then taped it in place with parcel tape.


This is the top of the same foot. We decided not to treat this with banana as I need some part of my foot to walk on!