Thursday, March 22, 2007

A Tale of the Tape

Filed under: Dermatology

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When it comes to wart removal, duct tape may not be as impressive as previously thought:

The tape supposedly works by irritating the skin and stimulating the body's immune system to attack the virus that causes warts. It earned a place in the medicine cabinet in 2002, when a small study showed it to be effective on children and young adults.

This time, a study among older adults found duct tape helped only 21 percent of the time and was no more better than moleskin, a cotton-tape bandage used to protect the skin.

But researchers used transparent duct tape. Only later did they learn that the transparent variety does not contain rubber, unlike the better-known, gray duct tape that appeared to be effective in the 2002 study.

Seriously, folks. You're studying duct tape. What, was they grey kind too expensive for your study? Were the wart-infested patients protesting the cosmetics of nontransparent tape? How do procedural mistakes like this happen?

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Around March 20th, an article about two duct tape wart removal studies was widely published in the media. One study found that covering warts with duct tape could remove them, while a later study found that doing so does not remove them. How much did overtaxed workers have to involuntarily contribute for these studies?

Long ago, I grew up to more than one dozen warts on the sole of each foot after I began showering at a fitness faculty. Self-treatment with an over-the-counter ?wart removal? product only encouraged the spread of wart growth. In desperation, I taped paper napkins soaked with Vitamin E oil to my soles with duct tape and changed this daily. Within less than one month all warts had ?melted? away.

So why do some people have such warts surgically removed, when they seem to barely be able to walk during their healing period?

I am herewith soliciting monetary grants, naturally from private donors because there are overtaxed workers in my circle of family and friends, to conduct two research studies. Someone needs to determine if allowing students to tape their principals to walls with duct tape is an effective tool for teaching creative thinking, mathematics and Chinese? Or do such hangings of principals peel paint off walls and undermine respect and credibility, while taking away from study time and concentration of independent thinking?

"Heroes from the Attic: A Gripping True Story of Triumph"
A Memoir by Herman Neuman
Miraculous Survivor, Author, Inspirational Speaker
American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress
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Posted by: Herman Neuman
on March 30, 2007 08:31 AM GMT

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