How to remove plantar warts

A wart is a circular elevation that looks like a callus. The only difference between them is that the warts that form on the bottom of the feet, are uneven and does not show fingerprints. A wart, also known as plantar wart , can persist for years in adults if not treated properly. In children it can be cured in a shorter period of time. Learn some techniques that can help eliminate a wart in the privacy of your own home.

Directions

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1. In any case, consult your doctor or podiatrist about the best practices to remove a plantar wart on your foot.
2. Fill a bowl large enough to put your feet with warm water. Please keep the container and let it soak for 15-20 minutes, then wipe it dry with a towel. For the sauce feet softens the skin around the wart and makes it easier to remove.
3. Gently scrape the wart with a nail file to remove dead cells from the skin surface. You can also use a plastic tongue scraper or a pumice stone to scrub the dead cells. Scrape not too much because this can make blood. Rinse the feet with hot water to make sure that all the dead cells are removed. Then dry with a towel.
4. Leave the wart uncovered overnight, then cover with a new adhesive bandage the next morning to begin the process again. This process can be repeated up to two months and can help eliminate or decrease the size of the wart.
5. Clean the area around the wart in warm water, then dry with a towel. Cover the wart with a piece completely bandage and leave it on the wart for six days, including nights.
6. Place a new piece of bandage after showering, or if dropped. Remove the bandage past six days. The size of the bandage depends on the size of the plantar wart .
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Need

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• Hot water
• Towel
• Great Basin
• Nail file
• Scraper plastic tongue
• Pumice

 

Plantar Wart Removal 

What causes plantar warts? People catch warts through direct contact with HPV, of which there are many different types. The type that causes plantar warts likes to stay in damp, warm environments - the kind that raises your suspicion anyway, like public showers, swimming pools, changing rooms, shower mat of your roommates, or communal shoes ( if you're sharing shoes with people, you should inspect their feet first). If you walk barefoot through these areas, you can get plantar warts.

Contact between people can also spread plantar warts. If you sleep with someone, remember that plantar warts never sleep! The virus can pass from one foot to the other, or the sheets to your foot.

How can I tell if I have plantar warts? You should consult a doctor to confirm a diagnosis of plantar warts, since in some cases the uncomfortable growth on your foot is something entirely different (possibly a clogged sweat gland or even a tumor).

Plantar warts often appear near the fingers or around the heel (essentially, the places most likely to have had contact with the virus in the first place). You can feel the lump of a plantar wart as you walk, but when you look at it, the wart appears surprisingly smooth. Because of its location in the body, plantar warts grow inward instead of out. As a result, the wart will not look like a wart on someone's face. A plantar wart feels like a callus because it's covered in callus tissue due to frequent pressure of walking. Often a plantar wart will appear darkly discolored, sometimes with the appearance of a small black core (which is a blood clot, not a physical embodiment any of the virus itself).

Getting rid of plantar warts. Several methods exist for removing these disgusting plantar warts.

Salicylic Acid. Using salicylic acid, a treatment for plantar wart that you can buy at your local pharmacy, you can usually remove a plantar wart in about four weeks. The process requires the daily application of acid to the wart, as well as cleaning of dead skin warts. The acid can be applied both in solution as the adhesive, and in some cases you must apply it twice a day. You can use a nail file or pumice stone to remove dead skin from the plantar wart every day. It's nice that a medicinal substance as old is still recognized as an excellent treatment; salicylic acid was known throughout the ancient world to exist in willow bark. Just try to prevent him from contact with normal skin, which will cause irritation.

Cryotherapy. This sounds like what they did to Ted Williams, and does involve freezing. In this case, doctors use liquid nitrogen to "freeze" your wart. They apply the liquid nitrogen directly into the plantar wart using a spray applicator tip or cotton. If you've never experienced cryotherapy before, you may be impressed by the science fiction image of vapors rising from the nitrogen tank.For children, this method can be painful and scary too, and anyway, it does not guarantee neither more nor less successful than treatment with electrical tape or acid. If successful, however, you will get rid of that plantar wart faster.

Electrical tape. The treatment of plantar warts tape has more in common with the acid treatment than with cryotherapy. Apply the tape on your wart and leave it there for six days, after which you can wash the affected area and, once dry, scrub to clean the dead skin of the wart with that nail file or pumice stone again. The method of tape usually takes something like six weeks, but can take up to eight so you remove the plantar wart. For more information, check out the article on how to remove warts with duct tape.

More severe responses. You can also check the surgical removal with laser their plantar warts, though this procedure is expensive and in many cases painful. Another surgical option, the electrodessication, is quite effective but leaves a noticeable scar on your foot. Non-surgical options include the use of prescription drugs antiverrugas (officially for use against genital warts, but also effective in treating plantar warts) or immunotherapy, in which doctors inject antigens directly into the wart in an attempt to activate the natural response of your immune system against his wart.

How can I reduce my chances of getting plantar warts? Use bath slippers in public areas to reduce your potential contact with HPV. Dry your feet thoroughly after showering and swimming. And if you have a plantar wart, consider treatment a matter of urgency. The sooner you treat the plantar wart, the better! Late treatments mean a great opportunity for the plantar wart to spread its virus to other local areas of your foot. You get rid of a plantar wart that a "mosaic" whole lot easier (one of the most unpleasant cases of life imitating art). To reduce the likelihood of the wart multiplying, do not touch or scratch the plantar wart. Keep your hands away!

If you have a plantar wart, take the first step toward treatment today! Do not hesitate to make an appointment with your doctor to ensure that your problem is plantar warts. In the meantime, it will not hurt to apply duct tape or salicylic acid. Be aggressive. Do not let those warts walk all over you, even when you are walking through them.

What are warts?

What are warts?

Synonyms: plantar wart, periungual wart, subungual wart, verruca, verrucae planae, filiform warts, wart

Warts are small growths in the skin, which usually are not painful. Caused by viruses, warts are usually harmless and may disappear on their own. These may occur anywhere in the body and can also be of various types.

Warts can vary greatly in size and shape from one to another. The texture also tends to differ, and may present from smooth surfaces even rougher.

Types

There are several possible types of warts:


Plantar wart
Genital wart
Periungual wart
Subungual wart
Common wart
Wart filiforme
Verruca vulgaris
Flat wart.

Causes

There are numerous possible causes for the appearance of warts. They are caused by a virus called Human Papilloma Virus - popularly known as HPV, which infects the top layer of skin, causing warts. They may come more easily when the person has an injury or cut in the skin. It is so common to find warts in children. They are also quite common in body areas where people tend to shave, and in face, in the case of males who shave, and legs, in the case of women who shave their legs.

It is also possible, indeed, transmit warts to other people as well, mainly through touch, in a process called self inoculation - very common in shared bathrooms gyms, swimming pools, clubs, etc. Transmission can also occur during unprotected sex.

Reinfection is also possible. A person does not become immune to wart now presented a ever.

Risk factors

Anyone is subject to eventually present warts, but some behaviors are considered facilitators for the appearance of them, such as:

Being a child or préadolescente, which usually suffer more injuries on the skin than adults
People who bite their fingernails
People with weakened immune systems such as people with HIV or autoimmune diseases.

Seeking medical help

Warts are usually not a medical emergency as they are not formed by cancer cells. Nevertheless, they require treatment, because if not properly treated can spread throughout the body, making it difficult to cure. The treatment is also needed because, although there is the possibility of warts regress spontaneously, this process can be long. Thus, the treatment is necessary to prevent the bearer of wart infecting other people and that he may return to their normal activities. Who has warts can not go swimming clubs, gyms, etc.

The warts, however, can cause aesthetic nuisance. Because of this, some people may choose to do an intervention to remove them.

In some cases, if they are located in parts of the body where there is pressure, as the soles of the feet, for example, the warts may possibly scratching and hurting. A quick surgery, applying acid on site, cauterization or applying liquid nitrogen or dry ice (and these last two freeze the wart, destroying it), may solve the problem.

In the medical consultation

Make an appointment with a dermatologist to see what type of wart you carry. In practice, the positive diagnosis for warts is through a simple observation. A biopsy can determine the cause and the type of wart.

Among the specialties that can diagnose a wart are:

Medical clinic
Dermatology
Infectious Diseases
Urology
Pediatrics
Gynecology.
Be prepared for the query can facilitate diagnosis and optimize time. This way, you can now get to the consultation with some information:

A list of all the symptoms and how long they appeared
Medical history, including other conditions the patient has and medications or supplements he takes regularly
The doctor will likely make a series of questions such as:

When the wart came about?

How many warts you noticed in your body?
Did you notice any symptoms related to warts?
They hurt or itch?
They bother you aesthetically or physically?
It is also important to take your questions for written consultation, starting with the most important. This ensures that you get answers to all the relevant questions before the end query. For warts, some basic questions include:

I need to do some treatment for my warts?
They can represent any danger to my health?
Must make use of some kind of medication?
Is there any measure I can take to make the warts go away?
If I choose to surgically remove the warts, what the estimated time to recovery?
What can I do to make new warts do not arise again in my body?
Most warts do not need treatment. But if you have warts that are painful, itchy or that are easily spread throughout the body, or if you are simply uncomfortable with the presence and appearance of them, talk to a doctor about whether to surgically remove them.

 living (prognosis)

Care
Never manipulate the injury. Do not try to remove it without medical advice. Do not use pliers or other tools to cut them. This can cause an infection at the site. Wash the region in the bath and applying a dressing (such as micropore) on the lesions to prevent manipulation thereof causes inoculation into other body locations or other people to transmit.