Wart / Verruca freeze spray

[properperson]

 

does anyone know where i can buy (in Thailand) Wart / verruca freeze spray ?

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[lopburi3]

I highly doubt it is even available.  Not even all hospitals have it (of any type) available for doctors to use. 

 

[properperson]

 

then i saw this:

 

However, it turns out that there is a much cheaper alternative.

Using an air-duster can held upside down to freeze a wart.

You know those canisters of compressed air that are used to clean your computer keyboard?  I’m going to call them air-dusters.  If you hold air-dusters upside down, the spray they generate will freeze tissue  just like the  commercial sprays.  But air-duster canisters only cost around $6.00 a can rather than $400.00 a can.

The ingredients are almost identical.  Verrucafreeze contains tetrafluoroethane, pentafluoroethane and trifluoroethane, whereas a typical air-duster can contains tetrafluoroethane and difluoroethane.

At my prison facility where we do wart removal, we initially used the expensive commercial freezing canisters like Verrucafreeze, but about three years ago switched to using air-duster cans held upside down.  I can tell you from experience that they are identical in efficacy to the commercial products.

So there is your answer, Aldo.  The most cost-effective technique for treating genital warts is cryotherapy done with an air-duster can held upside down.

[Sheryl]

You can't.

 

What you can get for warts is something called Callomak which is just salicylcic acid

Pharmacy or Lazada

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/collomak-solution-10-ml2-i226876171-s346852817.html?ef_id=EAIaIQobChMImIzPoJTd5QIVjA4rCh0DFwnuEAYYASABEgITK_D_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!3152!3!286179630377!!!u!817111441800!&exlaz=d_1:mm_150050845_51350205_2010350205::12:1498579383!58089999096!!!pla-817111441800!c!817111441800!346852817!120285047!286179630377&gclid=EAIaIQobChMImIzPoJTd5QIVjA4rCh0DFwnuEAYYASABEgITK_D_BwE

 

If that doesn't do the trick then you need to see a doctor, some of them have liquid nitrogen spray but not all.  I can suggest places in Bangkok for that if you like.

[BritManToo]

Don't use it on genital warts!

[properperson]

1 minute ago, Sheryl said:

You can't.

 

What you can get for warts is something called Callomak which is just salicylcic acid

Pharmacy or Lazada

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/collomak-solution-10-ml2-i226876171-s346852817.html?ef_id=EAIaIQobChMImIzPoJTd5QIVjA4rCh0DFwnuEAYYASABEgITK_D_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!3152!3!286179630377!!!u!817111441800!&exlaz=d_1:mm_150050845_51350205_2010350205::12:1498579383!58089999096!!!pla-817111441800!c!817111441800!346852817!120285047!286179630377&gclid=EAIaIQobChMImIzPoJTd5QIVjA4rCh0DFwnuEAYYASABEgITK_D_BwE

 

If that doesn't do the trick then you need to see a doctor, some of them have liquid nitrogen spray but not all.  I can suggest places in Bangkok for that if you like.

 

have tried that - didn't work (verruca on foot) - ironically every pharmacy in the uk sells these wart freeze sparays ......

 

have used in the past and worked perfectly - and far far cheaper than getting a Dr to remove......

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[Sheryl]

It is not that expensive to get it frozen off by a doctor here. Maybye 1000 baht or so.

[properperson]

Just now, Sheryl said:

It is not that expensive to get it frozen off by a doctor here. Maybye 1000 baht or so.

 

that spray in the uk 35% of that ...

[lopburi3]

8 minutes ago, properperson said:

 

that spray in the uk 35% of that ...

But this is by a properperson (Doctor).  My cost in August for actinic keratosis removals at Vibhavadi Hospital was 100 baht each for six places plus doctor fee of 2,000 baht for full body exam and treatment.

[Oxx]

1 hour ago, Sheryl said:

You can't.

 

What you can get for warts is something called Callomak which is just salicylcic acid

 

Actually "collomak", and it's a bit more than "just salicylic acid".  There's also lactic acid and polidocanol (a local anaesthetic which relieves itching).

 

Personally found it ineffective.  (But then, freezing didn't work either, so I had to have the warts physically cut out and the wounds cauterised, which is not a pleasant experience.)

[lopburi3]

10 hours ago, Oxx said:

 

Actually "collomak", and it's a bit more than "just salicylic acid".  There's also lactic acid and polidocanol (a local anaesthetic which relieves itching).

 

Personally found it ineffective.  (But then, freezing didn't work either, so I had to have the warts physically cut out and the wounds cauterised, which is not a pleasant experience.)

Was that laser surgery?  I have had many removed by laser without major issues (although the odor not pleasant - or too much times goes by and numbing cream wears off - which is another matter - although for some they used local shot).  Did have issues of bleeding due multi blood thinners however.  Have also had many wide margin cancer removals using knife and none of them hurt much.

[Oxx]

1 hour ago, lopburi3 said:

Was that laser surgery?

 

No.  Laser surgery is only suitable on fleshy parts of the body.  Can't be used, for example, if the wart is too close to a joint such as a knuckle.

[Pilotman]

12 hours ago, Oxx said:

 

Actually "collomak", and it's a bit more than "just salicylic acid".  There's also lactic acid and polidocanol (a local anaesthetic which relieves itching).

 

Personally found it ineffective.  (But then, freezing didn't work either, so I had to have the warts physically cut out and the wounds cauterised, which is not a pleasant experience.)

Collomak worked for me in about 2 months.  You have to be persistent and regular in your applications,  and careful not to put it on the surrounding skin, but it worked fine. 

[scubascuba3]

16 hours ago, properperson said:

 

then i saw this:

 

However, it turns out that there is a much cheaper alternative.

Using an air-duster can held upside down to freeze a wart.

You know those canisters of compressed air that are used to clean your computer keyboard?  I’m going to call them air-dusters.  If you hold air-dusters upside down, the spray they generate will freeze tissue  just like the  commercial sprays.  But air-duster canisters only cost around $6.00 a can rather than $400.00 a can.

The ingredients are almost identical.  Verrucafreeze contains tetrafluoroethane, pentafluoroethane and trifluoroethane, whereas a typical air-duster can contains tetrafluoroethane and difluoroethane.

At my prison facility where we do wart removal, we initially used the expensive commercial freezing canisters like Verrucafreeze, but about three years ago switched to using air-duster cans held upside down.  I can tell you from experience that they are identical in efficacy to the commercial products.

So there is your answer, Aldo.  The most cost-effective technique for treating genital warts is cryotherapy done with an air-duster can held upside down.

Is it genital warts? but don't want to admit it. Different treatment applies