Extra Strength 6G

bought april 3rd as a last resort. my 8 year old son grew a HUGE seed wart on his fingertip. i’m talking a seed FARM. i had never seen anything like it. at least an inch all the way around. was causing him so much pain in his sports (travel ball player), so it was imperative this thing disappeared. the problem was it developed over the winter months - and my son never made mention of it until spring ball started up. meaning this thing had been thriving for months. we tried some generic freeze treatment, multiple types of compound W, duct tape, ACV, 20% salicylic acid, tea tree oil. 3 different dermatologists and they all wanted to skip the freeze and cut it out. i’ve been on reddit. i’ve seen the pictures, read the horror stories. i wanted to keep the trauma to a minimum for my boy. reddit led me to this stuff. purchased april 3. used inconsistently, but in combination with at least 2 strong at home freezes. when i tell you this thing has almost entirely fallen off! i never thought it could happen. i thought we were going to have to face the needles. bazuka is a god send. i wish i had before and after pictures. we are down to one tiny area of seed that i can tell is already blackened on the bottom, so it should fall off soon like the rest. we are so happy we found this stuff!!!

I did try the Dr Scholl's freeze system with wart remover liquid first but I wasn't seeing results. TBH I probably wasn't as diligent as I should have been which likely just pissed the wart off and caused it to grow bigger. I've actually got 2 baby warts nearby as well that showed up about 6 months ago. My wart is on the side of my heel, not on the bottom of my foot. It was about as big as a green pea when I started my first efforts of removal, and as someone else described here, it got about as big as a smashed green pea when I decided to try something more agreesive. I got really serious about getting rid of the wart about 7 months ago using the filing / soaking / Dr. Scholl's liquid wart removal method and I wasn't making much progress. I then did research and realized that Dr. Scholl's was only 17% salicylic acid...did a little more digging around and found a post that mentioned Bazuka.I'm on my second tube...and while I was seeing a little progress, I really started seeing results this week. Here's what works best for me: BEFORE I soak my foot in hot water, I use a rough nail file and file away what I can (prior day's bazuka, dry skin, etc). Once that's done, I soak my foot for about 10 minutes in hot water, dry it off, and apply bakuka. I do this every day. Sometimes after wearing tennis shoes and exercising, I can peel away the top layer of the wart, but often it hurts too much. I don't like filing after soaking because I feel the file just catches and drags and tears the skin and causes the spot to be super painful. There will be some pain involved, but soaking then filing in that order made it worse. There is likely some truth to those little micro-tears being helpful because the bazuka can get really deep into the wart, and you can tell when that happens because it really stings, but the resulting soreness wasn't worth the results I was seeing.I ordered my first tube 6/16. Just started my 2nd tube 8/1. Really started seeing biggest results this week...so don't give up. If you start a regiment, keep it up or you'll do what I did and just make the wart get bigger.For a few days I did get duck tape to stick on my foot so for about a week I used it with the first tube, and I do think it helps, but since my wart is on the side of my foot, when walking the tape would pull at the wart and it got too painful. So I haven't used any tape the last 3 weeks or so.I also experimented with the 40% wart removal pads. Again, adhesion was challenging, but I think they helped as well (I would use the bazuka then top with a pad). However, it kept the area moist and I didn't like filing that way, so I would have to let it dry out first. I felt I could peel off quite a bit using the pads and bazuka, but I couldn't tell if I was peeling dead wart or if it was actually the adhesive / medicated pad that stuck to the skin.The tape and pads may have helped speed things along, but for me they weren't going to be a reliable method due to how sore my foot was getting (effected my gait), and the trouble getting it to stick consistently. I honestly think that just the file - soak - bazuka method is really what is working the best, for me anyway.You'll notice some soreness, and you'll notice that the wart area will actually swell. I read on a podiatrists' blog that it may double up in size. That's you just irritating the virus and that's where the battle is going on to eliminate it. Mine is not currently as "puffy", it is getting flatter, and the effected area is finally starting to shrink. The center is dark red right now. It started out opaque white but I'm finally working my way down to the center. I'm also doing this same method to the 'babies' that popped up and they aren't growing and are shrinking as well so hopefully they won't cause additional problems.I'll update in a few weeks, but seriously - this stuff is the BEST! I was worried I'd have to go in to have it cut out - I'm so glad this is working. I'll keep this up as long as needed.Experiment with the soak-file-bazuka or file-soak-bazuka methods...try experimenting with duck tape and the other medicated pads, but for sure keep doing the basic method I've been using every day with consistency and you'll see results. But give it time and don't give up. Again I'm on my 2nd tube and just now seeing real results in shrinkage, not just keeping it from growing bigger. There is hope!!!

There are multiple salicylic acid products available for wart treatment. Some are liquid, some pads or patches, some in a soft, solid, "chapstick-like" applicator. The problem with all of these products is keeping the active ingredient from losing contact with the wart, either through rubbing off or washing off with normal activities. The Bazuka formulation differs in a critically important way: It keeps the salicylic acid in close contact with the wart for 24 hours and longer. After you apply it, a coating forms over the wart that is resistant to normal contact, (e.g., with clothing or another body part like your fingers or other hand) and moisture - even normal hand washing. The other important advantage of this coating is to keep the wart virus covered so that it does not spread to other areas. These features are what sets Bazuka apart from other salicylic acid formulations and products.I found Bazuka to be the most effective wart treatment I've used, better than freezing products, better than duct tape, and far better than the other salicylic acid formulations. The key is to be consistent in daily or near-daily use and to follow the instructions for soaking in warm water to loosen the previous days coating on the warts, using the include emory board-like abrasive for removing as much of the surface coating as possible before applying a new Bazuka application on the warts. I have used this product on over 20 warts on my hands and feet - I am immunosuppressed, so prone to human papilloma virus growth - the cause warts. And though it took nearly three months and 3 tubes of Bazuka, I can say it actually works. It wears down, layer by layer, the warts. Apply to the warts, let it dry (takes at least 5 minutes to really dry in my experience), wait about 24 hours to soak in warm water to loosen the coating, let that skin dry, remove as much residual coating as possible, and apply new coating. Repeat daily. Be patient. I see the warts gradually become more superficial and smaller - you can see it - with continued use. My largest warts were 1-1.5 cm in size. They are gone.So in summary, I believe the effectiveness of this salicylic acid product is in the formulation that keeps it in continuous and better contact with the wart. It is also possible that one more components of the coating that adheres to the skin is also active against warts.