Breast milk has a compound that destroys skin warts, could protect against cancers
The scientists tried applying human breast-milk to the skin and found that the human papilloma virus was killed as a result (the virus in the warts). The virus, in these cases, had been resistant to traditional medical treatment.
Scientists are calling the compound Hamlet. You can read about this discovery in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Catharina Svanborg, Prof. Clinical Immunology, Lund University, Sweden, said that this discovery could have relevance for the treatment of cervical cancer. She said the virus found in warts is quite similar to the virus found in cervical cancer.
They plan to carry out a small trial on women who have cervical cancer.
The human papilloma virus comes in many forms - in fact there are at least 130 types of them. In the case of cervical cancer, it is caused by the sexual transmission of two of them.
Millions of people have the virus in their bodies, but not all become ill as a result.
The scientists found that when they applied the breast milk to patients with warts, some of them quite unpleasant ones - plantar warts that attack your feet - they found that the warts shrank by over 75% within three weeks. 75% of the patients got rid of their warts after the second treatment.
Laptele matern are un compus care distruge pielea de veruci, ar putea proteja împotriva tipuri de cancer - Breast milk has a compound that destroys skin warts, could protect against cancers - articole medicale engleza - startsanatate