|
| Dr. Scholl's Freeze Away Wart Remover - 40226sch -12 Ea SKU 1490374 | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: SCHERING-PLOUGH HEALTHCARE.
Category: Health And Beauty
Buy New: $17.69
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 6759
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
ASIN: B000QD1IRU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
SKU NUMBER: 791228The Mininimum EXP date on product:1year.TITLE DESCRIPTION: Dr. Scholl's Freeze Away Wart Remover - 40226Sch -12 Ea.MANUFACTURER: SCHERING-PLOUGH HEALTHCARE.PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Removes Warts Fast as Few as 1 Treatment.Freeze AwayCommon & Plantar War RemoverThis easy-to-use kit has everything you need to quickly and effectively remove common and plantar warts. Using the same treatment method that doctors use on their patients, Freeze Away Wart Remover freezes the wart immediately, causing the treated wart to fall off in as few as 10 days. By the time the wart falls off, healthy new skin will have formed underneath.Read the complete information booklet inside the box before use and keep for future reference. Use Freeze Away Wart Remover only if you are sure the skin condition is a common wart or plantar wart. If you treat a skin condition as a wart with Freeze Away and it is not a wart, you delay proper treatment. This delay may lead to more serious skin condition or disease.For removing common warts: common warts are skin-colored, usually appear on the hands and feet and are recognized by the rough "cauliflower-like" appearance of the surface. They are harmless growths that consist of a center of inner skin (or connective) tissue with blood vessels covered with layers of outer skin (or epidermis) tissue.For removing plantar warts from the bottom of the foot: plantar warts are recognized by their location only on the bottom of the foot, their tenderness, and the interruption of the footprint pattern. Plantar warts grown inwards and are often flat due to the pressure caused by walking. They are often callused and painful.INGREDIENTS:Dimethyl Ether, Propane (Not harmful to the environment).CAUTION:Highly Flammable. Contents under pressure. Do not pierce or burn pressurized can, even after use.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Don't waste your money!!! August 22, 2008
We tried this product on my 5 year old who has a rather large (1 cm) wart on the heel of her foot. She was very brave in letting us scrape the dead skin off the wart (a very important step)--a few times until it bleed. We always held the freeze-away tip for at least 40 seconds and then also went around the edges of the wart w/the applicator for a bit (a physician gave us this tip). After 9 treatments the wart is only minimally smaller. We should have just went to the dr. to begin with! We have had success in the past using Compound W and duct tape but nothing would stick to my daughter's foot at the location of the wart. So, unless your wart in tiny, save your money!
desperate measures June 9, 2008
This product works very well with small warts, but not too well with larger warts. For larger warts, you should use Freeze away along with Dr Scholl's medicated pads, which will help to pull the wart out. Otherwise you may be just wasting your time and money. If you are like me (on your feet all day) than you will prefer using the pads. They will keep the wart from going deeper and remove them faster than freezing alone.
 Freezing Warts Away August 26, 2007
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Dr. Scholl's Freeze away is a new over-the-counter means to treat warts. In the past, only an MD could use liquid nitrogen in the treatment of warts. Now the consumer can use the same technology to treat warts at home. At around 20 dollars for a kit (that has 12 treatment applicators), this is a quick and relatively inexpensive means to treat warts. A typical doctor's office co-pay is around 20 - 25 dollars, so this kit is as cost-effective as a doctor's visit, without the hassle of having to go the doctor. I have treated several warts at home with this system with mixed results. Some warts have been eliminated with one treatment (the wart sheds in about 2 weeks). Other warts have been more resistant to treatment and have required multiple treatments, the treatments being 2-3 weeks apart.
In using this system, I have found some treatment tips I would like to share. First, I think it is essential to cut off the top surface of the wart as much as possible. This thins the wart and allows it to freeze deeper, killing the infected cells more thoroughly. Use a sharp scalpel, an emory board, or even sandpaper. Remember that the shavings from the wart may be infective. Second, the treatment time is critical for success. The instructions cite treatment time of 10-20 seconds for most warts, with up to 40 seconds for plantar (sole of feet) warts. The thicker the skin and thicker the wart, the longer you want to hold the cryotherapy tip against the wart. Unsuccessful therapy generally means that the treatment time was not long enough. The goal of cryotherapy is to freeze the wart virus and kill it. Expect the treatment to hurt (sometimes a little - sometimes a lot, depending on where the wart is). After charging the tip with the can, place it against the wart for the amount of time recommended in the instructions. It will "sizzle" as it contacts the wart, and this is desirable, for you want the tip to be cold so that the treated surface turns a frosted white. When you remove the tip from the wart, the surface will be white and frozen, but will quickly warm and become red. It may hurt for minutes to several hours. While the box indicates that only one treatment is necessary, I have found most warts require 1 or more treatments, with 2 - 3 weeks between each treatment. Healing of the frozen surface takes about 1-2 weeks with the hopeful end result that the wart falls off. Generally there is little or no scarring. If the treatment time is longer or you are treating a larger wart, a blister may form. If the blister breaks, be diligent to clean the area to prevent the spread of the wart virus. Avoid contact with the fluid in the blister, as it likely contains wart virus which can infect other areas.
There are three main ways to treat warts: cryotherapy, liquid salicylic acid therapy, and duct tape therapy. All these usually work if applied consistently. Cryotherapy offers no clear advantages over the liquid wart removal (salicylic acid), except that it is quicker and less of a mess. Duct tape therapy (taping the wart for 7 days straight) seems to be just as effective as any other therapy. It is certainly cheap, but the main disadvantage is treating warts in sightly areas such as the fingers, hands or face.
I like cryotherapy for warts for its ease of therapy. If you want to get rid of a wart as quickly as possible, give this treatment a try.
Jim "Konedog" Koenig
For the person who wishes more information on warts see below:
Warts are caused by the Human Papilomavirus. HPV enters the body in an area of broken skin. The virus causes the top layers of the infected skin to grow rapidly, producing a wart. The body has a hard time eliminating warts because warts hide in our own cells where the immune system cannot find or recognize them as being foreign. However, over time, sometimes years, the immune system finally "discovers" the wart virus and produces anti-bodies against it. At this point, all the warts are attacked and eliminated.
Warts can occur anywhere on the body. There are many different kinds of warts. "Common warts" appear most often on the hands, but they may appear anywhere on the body. They are rough, gray-brown, dome-shaped growths. "Plantar warts" occur on the bottom of the feet, are hard, thick patches of skin with dark specks inside the growth.
Flat warts are found on the face, arms, or legs. They are small (about 2-4 mm in diameter), have flat surfaces. and are pink, light brown, dark brown, or skin-colored yellow.
Filiform warts are generally found around the mouth, on or in the nose, or in the beard area. They are flesh-colored with jagged fingerlike edges.
Periungual warts are found under and around the toenails and fingernails. They appear as rough, irregular bumps. These warts are very painful to treat as the fingers are very sensitve with lots of nerve endings.
Genital warts occur on the genitals, around the anus, within the rectum or vagina, or on the cervix. Don't use cryotherapy or salicylic therapy on genital warts - consult with an MD.
|
|
|
©2006 TreatYourFeet.com | |
