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Duct Tape Can Remove Warts
chris_calabrese writes "According to this Reuters article on Yahoo! News, "Duct tape, already legendary for its many uses, can also be deployed to get rid of warts, U.S. Army researchers said on Monday." The basic idea is to tape over the warts and suffocate them. Apparently more effective than the traditional cryotherapy too."
I tried to suffocate what I thought was a wart with duct tape, but I had to take it off after one day because I had to pee really bad.
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It takes 2 to 3 years to train to be a doctor
Lol. That's a good one. Let's see, a bachelor's degree, that's 3-4 years. Then four years of medical school-- and no, you can't "test out" of any of it; medical school is four years, and that's that. Then three to six years of residency, depending on your specialty.
If you're a true badass who chooses the right specialty-- and I'm not even going to count undergrad time here-- you can become a doctor in as little as seven years. And that's if you pick one of the "easy" specialties with a short residency. If you do what my girlfriend is doing-- get your MD/PhD, then do a surgical residency, then a fellowship-- you're looking at an upper bound of fifteen consecutive years of training. That's three years for a PhD in biology, four years for an MD, six years of residency at a teaching hospital, and two more years of fellowship before you can go get an actual job practicing medicine.
Doctors are better trained than you give them credit for.
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As opposed to the other kind?
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1: 1/2 bottle Jack Daniels, applied internally.
2: 1 fork, tines heated red hot over gas stove
3: Apply hot fork tines CAREFULLY to center of wart area.
4: Swear a lot.
5: Big Profit!! (and no more wart, seriously)
Id say ill use duct tape in the future, but i think clearing off 1 wart this way scared all the others away permanently.
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> Duct Tape Seals Cooling/Heating Ducts!
Funny thing, is that Duct tape is almost completely worthless on heating ducts, the tempature they get to is too high and the duct tape gule melts and it falls right off. Go and take a look at your ducts, they don't have duct tape on them, they have some really shiney type tape (which I forget what it is called).
I know for a fact you can become a doctor in about five minutes on the internet.
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A clue for the clueless -- DO NOT PUNCTURE WARTS UNLESS YOU WANT MORE OF THEM!
The virus that causes warts is easily spread from lymphatic fluid from a punctured wart.
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Well, I had a huge wart on my big toe, which grew back after being burned off with acid and a hot needle. Then my sister stepped on it at the airport in Hawaii (I was wearing slippers), ripping it clean off. This was at the baggage counter, where family were all trying to hug me and say, "hello". I bled all over the place. However, a dog came up and ate the ripped off wart, and followed me around licking up much of the blood.
The remaining wart crater scabbed over with a hard black shell, which I eventually tore off with some tweezers. The wart never came back.
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"The basic idea is to tape over the warts and suffocate them"
Since common warts are caused by a virus, it seems unlikely that you could literally "suffocate" it.
I'm guessing that a possible mode of action is that, by irritating the area, the duct tape is setting up a mild, local inflammation. Most warts eventually go away spontaneously, when the immune system recgnizes the virus, and a bit of inflammation would speed this process up. A number of existing anti-wart agents are believed to work this way.
...but what do I use to remove the duct tape?
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If you've got warts, acne, athlete's foot, or other skin conditions, there's a very large likelihood you're zinc deficient. Since the soil has been so over-farmed for the last 50+ years, it's no longer possible for most people (need levels vary) to get enough zinc from just their diet any longer, no matter how "healthfully" they eat.
Seriously, zinc is real safe, try taking it for a while and see if your warts don't disappear. Mine did.
..will get rid of your warts, will.
Warts respond to placibos like nothing else does. Your body's immune system can easily get rid of them. Stress prevents your immune system from removing them. Getting a "cure", any cure, will reduce your stress and your immune system will do its job.
The best placibo should be something ingrained in the mind with the ability to fix anything. Duct tape is an absolutely perfect placibo candidate.
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