wart remover products in the drugstore contain usually salicylic acid. i don't like the ones that have the freeze because it's not cold enough to really cause enough damage to kill the wart virus. and oftentimes it can leave a scar on the skin. so that would be done by your dermatologist using liquid nitrogen which is really really cold and will eliminate the skin where the wart virus lives and then the wart virus is gone. so it's important to note that wart virus is everywhere. anything you touch chances are you are being exposed to wart virus. so don't be so concerned about having it transmitted to somebody else if you shake hands that's not as much of a concern. it's more just to get rid of it because it's uncomfortable. also it doesn't go beyond the skin. so this is truly simply a condition of the skin. some people are more prone to it genetically than others and sometimes more at some ages than others. the treatments that contain salicylic acid work pretty well but they take time. another treatment that has great medical literature behind it that shows it works as well as the in-office treatments that we do as dermatologist is duct tape. so i think every house or apartment comes with duct tape. i haven't seen one house where it doesn't exist. i think it's just magically there when you buy a house it's just in your house. you cut it slightly bigger than the size of the wart and wash the skin dry it well and then put it on the skin and hold your hand to the outside to warm the glue to the skin so it sticks really well. it seems that the glue is toxic to that wart virus and the thickness of the tape suffocates it. then after three days you just peel that off and put a new one on. if you don't like the way that silver duct tape looks you can put a bandage over it and it works great for wart virus of the foot as well.
i have warts on my hands. will those wart remover products at the drugstore work?