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Duct Tape for Warts? Maybe Not
Posted: November 17, 2006
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For six weeks, half the children wore duct tape over one of their warts, while the rest wore corn pads over one of theirs.
Once a week, the children uncovered the wart, soaked it in warm water for five minutes, then rubbed the wart gently with a pumice stone.
During the study, the warts covered by duct tape were only slightly more likely to heal than those covered by corn pads.
"After six weeks, the wart had disappeared in 16% of the children in the duct tape group, compared with 6% in the placebo [corn pad] group," the researchers write.
That margin was so slim that it may have been due to chance, de Haen's team says.
