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To: Tommaso who wrote (5821)	1/5/1998 6:12:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 71178

ouch

To: Tommaso who wrote (5821)	1/7/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

I've performed some rather exploratory papilloma abatement procedures in the past. Liquid nitrogen hurts like a sumbeetch, especially if self-inflicted. And it often requires a reapplication. Dry ice is worse: it tends to make a wide messy burn patch that's not deep enough. Nitric acid also suffered from lacking precision in its action, and the burn on otherwise good skin took waay too long to heal. I've never tried high heat except on the smallest of wartlets - scarring liability (and ouch factor). There's a product at our local drugstore called OccluSal, which is salicylic acid (a slow but effective ulcerating agent) in some hi-tech polymer base which allows really precise application. I tend to help the process along by razorblading away the dead skin every coupla days. But it's easy to painlessly cut just a little too far. Since the roots of warts are pretty well vascularized (and salicylic acid is a fair anticoagulant) you'll have a slow bleeder that just won't stop leaking. Put your foot up and tape some Bounty Towel to the injury, and resist looking at it for at least two episodes of Beavis&Butt-Head. Uh- huhhuhuuhuh.