Re: Diabetes and Warts

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Kandy wrote:

<< ... The dr also said there was no correlation with the db and the

warts...aren't they a virus

also? >>

They certainly are. They're caused by the papilloma virus. And it's possible

all our serious illnesses and exposures to viruses can take a cumulative

toll on our liver, pancreas, etc. And I am very suspicious of our former

practice of inoculating children with partially-live viruses. One sister was

diagnosed type 2 in grade school. She wasn't fat like the modern kids that

are diagnosed when young. Her eating choices are not good - but she was an

active little cowgirl back then, spending every weekend riding horses with

her friends and caring for them.

There is so much hand-wringing about all the childhood type 2 diabetes now,

but many schools have canceled their phys. ed. programs, so how do they

think kids will gain skills and get in the habit of participating in

athletics? And have you looked at the school lunch menus? Pizza and

carbohydrates, day after day. And not enough parents roust their kids from

in front of the TV or the computer. When I was on AOL, I would talk with

teens at midnight or even 2 a.m. I could tell they were smart, but many were

failing classes because of their internet obsession. They got the computer

in their bedrooms. They would pretend to go to sleep early, close the door,

then get back up and noodle around.

I started working to become self-supporting when I was in 8th grade, and

bought all my own clothes in high school. And I rode the bus - not drove a

car. And I was very active in sports. It seems to me we have several causes

of type 2 diabetes, and yet the worrisome news stories lump us all together.

It's so important to get the obese, sedentary students set on the proper

course ... but I'm not hopeful that will happen. And the long-term studies

among the Pima Indians indicates that obese diabetic parents overwhelmingly

give birth to children who also become obese and diabetic.

Here's some info about warts from

http://www.dallasderm.com/articles/wart.html

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Warts are growths on the skin and mucous membrane caused by the Human

Papilloma Virus. They are very difficult to culture on any culture medium,

being almost purely human specific (That's right, those wart-like growths on

frogs are not really warts at all). The most difficult warts are those found

on the bottom of the feet (plantar surface) called plantar warts, those

around the fingernails, and flat warts which can be found virtually anywhere

and frequently in large numbers (but their diameter is small and they are

only barely elevated off the surface and are frequently misdiagnosed). Most

people over time will become immune to the wart virus and be able to repress

it so that they are neither contagious or show any visible signs of warts;

nevertheless, as we are learning about many viruses that infect us, the wart

virus is not truly gone, it is simply suppressed. Because of the difficulty

of growing the war virus and studying it, we have yet to develop a wart

vaccine and most wart treatments resolve around destroying the most obvious,

painful, rapid growing, or infected ones in hoping new ones will not

develop. Of course, since it is a virus they are contagious and can be

acquired through touching or even from skin contact in an area where the

wart virus was recently deposited (such as a shower or a pool surface where

the virus was left from someone with a plantar wart walking over the area).

Wart treatments are numerous and the over-the-counter wart treatments are

usually valuable only in smaller types of warts and in those patients who

are able to persist for a number of weeks in the daily treatments. Other

treatments include freezing, electrical cautery, excising, lasering, caustic

chemical applications, and injections of wart killing medications. Recently,

a new topical cream that stimulates immunity has been approved, but it is

mostly effective in genital warts (but that is a whole other story!). E-mail

us for a free pamphlet on the latest laser treatment for warts.