Another use for Duct Tape

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.

Reuters

wow

did those US army guys get paid to discover that use?

maybe i should figure one more use for the duck tape for the army
and earn $5000000, eh?

[Keefe]

Ahh, the endless uses for duct tape.
he he

One side note about Duct Tape.... it was developed by the US Army in 1942.

really?

what was its first use?

Uhhh.. to tape stuff. :P

[Uranium-235]

heh I watch the history channel too much

It was first used to tape up equipment in moist enviorments. At first it was actually called "duck" tape cause it's ability to repel moisture (like water beads off a ducks feathers). Then after the war, it was used in AC repair, renamed "duct" for repairng ducts.

believe it or not, I just recalled all that from the top of my head

wow

good info u got there Uranium

seems like your parents have been feeding you grade A Uranium to keep ur noggin IQ 200!!

good to know...
and i see why it was called the duck tape

[MIK3]

ah, yet again, a successful story of the good ol duct tape. Have to give kudo's to the US of A's army on this one...what would we do w/ out them?

mind if i start a thread of "Uses of Duct Tape"

ill make it now
but its not ok, ill delete it upon request
hope i dont offend anyone