Daughter has warts
 

My 3 yr old daughter is getting wart on her neck and body.

The doc said to try put vaseline around them then put wart remover on the wart.
If that did not work then would move on to freezing them.
He told me the name of them but i can not remember it.
But in the 2 days since she has seen the doc they have spread from her neck to a lot of her body.

Can she be put on anything to help get rid of them?

Thanks.

I don't live in the USA, but there isn't such a drug in my country that a child of that age could take.

Warts are caused by a virus and would probably respond to antiviral medications such as those used for shingles etc, but I certainly wouldn't recommend such a strong medication for such a tiny tot.

My nephew (aged 5) also has this problem. He must have had around 30 or 40 on his body and they were recently frozen off using dry ice. Unfortunately this is a painful procedure so they had to give him an anaesthetic or he'd never have tolerated the pain. I can vouch for how much they hurt as I had just one frozen off my thigh last month, and I was almost in tears with the pain, and I'm an adult!

I think it's probably best to just wait and see if they respond to the treatment that your doctor suggested, meanwhile hoping that they don't continue to spread.

We do have a medication forum here at NeuroTalk so you could also ask your question over there if you wish, and hopefully get some feedback from our resident medication specialist. Here's the link to that forum: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum72.html

Thanks Koala.

I'm not sure if this will help or not, but my friend's son had some warts that were not going away with conventional treatment, so she was told by a doctor to try covering each wart with duct tape...seriously...because the warts require oxygen to continue. She tried this on her son...changing the tape once or twice daily. I think it took about one - 2 weeks for the warts to die and fall out, but it did happen! Other than having to explain the duct tape to curious people, it was painless for her son.

Anyone else ever tried this? I hope it helps.

There was actually a study done and published in the New England Journal of Medicine on duct tape on warts not quite 2 years ago. The conclusion was it does work - not like a miracle cure or anything.

Regarding the child - if the warts are spreading that fast and over such an area, the doctor should be called and given the information that the warts which previously covered 20% of his arm and 10% of his chest now cover 40 % of arm and 69% of chest and back. The percentages used are an example.

Best of luck