Oliver Samuel wrote:
>
> This is the age of evidence-based medicine so, before hurting either
> your patients or friends with anything so traumatic, what about
> looking for some evidence of effectiveness of liquid nitrogen? When
> I last looked, there wasn't any, so if that is still the case,
> perhaps rubbing in some wart cream might be equally effective and
> rather kinder.
>
The answer is on Bandolier at www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier/band31/b31-4.html or
thereabouts. It doesn't compare it with other treatments but looks at different
freezing methods. Weekly treatment with double freezing produces the fastest curest
but the most side effects. Warts generally required an average of 5 treatments to
clear but for every 6 patients treated, one would be better at 3 months on
weekly freezing that wouldn't have been better if 3 weekly cycles had been used.
Still, its an expensive game in terms of nursing time involved and equipment if a
cheap tube of cream will eventually do the same job.
I cant remember the reference, but I remember something from the distant past saying
that freezing plus wart cream was more effective than one of these items alone.
Bern
dr Bernard Bedford
Waterside HC
Hythe
Hants
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