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Article: Duct tape sticks it to warts. (Biomedicine).(Brief Article)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- November 16, 2002
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Treating a wart with a coveting of duct tape seems to be more effective--and less painful--than removing the wart by freezing it with liquid nitrogen.
Researchers at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., instructed 26 children and young adults to cover their warts with a piece of duct tape for 6 days a week. The physicians directed another 25 patients to come into the clinic to get cryotherapy every 2 to 3 weeks.
Warts on 22 of 26 people using duct tape disappeared within 2 months, the researchers report in the October ...