Duct tape the Force is like. Holds the universe together, it does. A light side it has, but beware the dark side.
-- Yoda.
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Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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> From: Ian Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 8:00 AM
> To: pen-l
> Subject: [PEN-L:31375] technology spillovers
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>
> Yet Another Use for Duct Tape: Wart Removal
> Mon Oct 14, 4:11 PM ET
>
> CHICAGO (Reuters) - Duct tape, already legendary for its many
> uses, can also
> be deployed to get rid of warts, U.S. Army researchers said on Monday.
>
> Dean Focht of the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma,
> Washington, said
> taping over a wart takes about a month to work. The growth is
> effectively
> suffocated, and dead tissue can then be gradually rubbed off
> with an emery
> board or pumice stone.
>
> Placing standard adhesive tape over a wart is sometimes recommended by
> dermatologists and is a well-known home remedy. Duct tape,
> however, may be
> more sticky and less likely to unravel than some medical
> adhesive tapes.
>
> The common wart, or verruca vulgaris, is a harmless growth
> caused by the
> papillomavirus. Warts can be contagious and annoying, but
> eventually will go
> away by themselves with the body creating an immunity.
>
> Doctors can freeze them off with chemicals, called
> cryotherapy, but the
> treatment can scare children and may not be as permanent.
>
> Focht had 26 subjects aged 3 to 22 years treat their warts
> with the duct
> tape method, where the growth was covered for six days then
> soaked with
> water and the dead tissue rubbed off. Twenty-five others
> underwent up to six
> treatments of cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen.
>
> The duct tape method worked for 85 percent of the patients, while
> cryotherapy was effective for 60 percent.
>
> Sticky-sided duct tape has many uses that range from patching
> to repairing
> to binding to removing nail polish.
>
> "In our study, duct tape occlusion therapy was shown to be
> more effective
> than cryotherapy in the treatment of verruca vulgaris, and it
> caused few
> adverse effects," Focht wrote in the Archives of Pediatrics
> and Adolescent
> Medicine, a journal published by the American Medical Association.
>
>
>
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