A friend sent me the following; couldn't find a link, sorry for length.

WARTS BEGONE!

People have gone to all sorts of extreme measures to remove unsightly,
embarrassing and stubborn warts. Conventional treatment includes burning or freezing
them, but they often grow back because the treatments generally don't fully
destroy the warts' roots. Now, researchers from University of Lund in Sweden
have discovered a gentle solution -- mother's milk.

According to the results of a study published in The New England Journal of
Medicine, a protein present in human breast milk can eliminate warts. Treatment
with a cream containing the protein complex alpha-lactalbumin as well as
oleic acid (which contains a protein found in breast milk) eventually eliminated
warts completely in all those who received it.

Forty patients with common skin warts that had previously resisted
conventional wart-removal methods received daily topical treatments of the breast milk
protein complex or a placebo. After three weeks, most of the warts in all of
the patients in the breast milk group decreased in size by 75% or more, while
only a few of the warts in some of the placebo group patients decreased by 15%.

The placebo group was given the breast milk protein complex treatment after
the initial phase of the trial, and their response was equally impressive -- an
82% reduction in wart size. In a follow-up conducted two years later, all
lesions were completely gone in 38 of the original 40 patients, with no adverse
reactions reported.

WHY DID TREATMENT WITH BREAST MILK PROTEIN
PRODUCE THESE IMPRESSIVE RESULTS?

Warts are benign tumors. The protein in breast milk has considerable
tumor-killing abilities, explain the researchers, with the ability to selectively
target only tumor cells and kill them, while leaving healthy cells unaffected. The
breast milk study was undertaken to prove this very principle --
alpha-lactalbumin kills transformed cells but bypasses healthy ones. Study authors note
that although their findings are preliminary, the treatment may be promising in
cancer therapies. There were no differences in treatment outcomes between
immunosuppressed patients and those with competent immune systems.

Barbara Latterner, BSN, RN, IBCLC




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