时差N小时:管状胶带和疣

Have you ever used duct tape to tape a duct?

你曾经用管状胶带粘过管道吗?

Do you evenknow what a duct is? Maybe not.

你知道管道是什么吗?也许你不知道。

But you definitely know what duct tape is, and you've probably used it to fix everything fromglasses to flashlights.

但你一定知道胶带，并且你可能用它来固定任何东西，比如眼镜或手电筒。

Now, thanks to one study, we can officiallyadd to the already long list of things to do with duct tape:

现在，多亏了一项研究，我们可以正式在胶带能做的事情单上增加一件事：

curing warts. That's right, duct tape might be used to curewarts.

治疗疣。是的，胶带可用于治疗疣。

The study tested duct tape against cryotherapy, which uses liquid nitrogen to freeze warts.

该项研究对胶带治疗疣和通过液态氮冷冻治疗疣进行了对照测试。

Of a test group of fifty-one wart patients, roughly half received cryotherapy, the other half duct tape.

测试组有五十一名病人，大约一半的病人接受了冷冻疗法，另一半病人接受管状胶带治疗。

The duct tape patients wore pieces of tape over their warts for six days and then removedit for twelve hours.

管状胶带疗法病人在长疣的地方贴上胶带，贴6天后再取下。

After soaking the wart in water and gently scrubbing it with pumice stone, the procedure wasrepeated for up to two months, or until the wart disappeared.

在水中浸泡疣后，用浮石轻轻擦拭其表面，这样坚持2个月，或直到疣消失。

The cryotherapy patients receiveda maximum of six treatments over the same time period.

冷冻疗法的病人在同样时间内接受了6次疗法。

By the end,85% of duct tape patientssaw their warts vanish completely, while only 65% of cryotherapy recipients had similar results.

在治疗结束时，管状胶带治疗组中占85%的病人寻常疣完全消退;而冷冻疗法治疗组中只有65%的病人寻常疣完全消退。

As for precisely what makes duct tape so effective, researchers are still uncertain.

到底是什么使得管状胶带如此有效，研究人员目前还不能确定。

Scientistsspeculate that by mildly irritating the wart, the tape activates the immune system whichsuppresses the viral microbes that cause warts.

科学家们推测也许是由于轻度地刺激疣，胶带激活了免疫系统，抑制了产生疣的病毒微生物的产生。

Robbed of its microbes, the wart graduallyvanishes.

微生没有了，疣就渐渐消失了。

Although duct tape has gotten all the publicity, it may be the case that other kinds of tape would do just as well.

尽管管状胶带已经被广泛宣传，但可能另外一种胶带也同样有效。

In any case, the next time you get a wart, talk to your medical professional about duct tape.

不管怎样，以后如果长了疣，与你的专业医师谈谈管状胶带吧。