A Guide to Warts ( A - Z ): Causes, Types, Precautions & Treatment
Causes, Types, Precautions & Treatment
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What is warts?
When our skin is infected with one of the many viruses of the human papillomavirus (HPV) family small, noncancerous, grainy skin growths that occur most often on our fingers or hands. Rough to the touch . The virus triggers extra cell growth, that makes the outer layer of skin thick and hard in that spot. While they can grow anywhere you have skin, you're more likely to get one on your hands or feet. The type of warts depends on what it looks like and where it is.
Who are infected?
Because each person's immune system responds differently to the virus, not everyone who comes in contact with HPV will get a wart. And if you cut or damage your skin in some way, it's easier for the virus to take hold. That's why people with chronic skin conditions, such as eczema, or who bite their nails or pick at hangnails are prone to getting warts.
Body Defense
Kids and teens get more warts than adults because their immune systems haven't built up defenses against the many types of HPV. People with weakened immune systems -- like those with HIV or who are taking biologic drugs for conditions like RA, psoriasis, and IBD are also more susceptible to getting warts because their body may not be able to fight them off.
Wrong Myths
If you touch or kiss the frogs and toads you, never they will give you warts.
If you have a wart on your nose -- or anywhere else, for that matter -- doesn't make you a witch, either.
Spreading:
Warts are highly contagious and are mainly passed by direct skin contact, such as when you pick at your warts and then touch another area of your body. You can also spread them with things like towels or razors that have touched a wart on your body or on someone else's. Warts like moist and soft or injured skin.
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Common Warts
These flesh-colored growths are most often on the backs of hands, the fingers, the skin around nails, and the feet. They're small -- from the size of a pinhead to a pea -- and feel like rough, hard bumps. They may have black dots that look like seeds, which are really tiny blood clots. Typically they show up where the skin was broken, perhaps from biting your fingernails. (This can also transfer the virus from your hands to your face.)
Flat Warts
The upside of these warts is that they're smaller (maybe 1/8 inch wide, the thickness of the cord that charges your phone) and smoother than other types. The downside? They tend to grow in large numbers -- often 20 to 100 at a time. Flat warts tend to appear on children's faces, men's beard areas, and women's legs.
Plantar Warts
Does it feel like you have pebbles in your shoe? Check the soles of your feet. These warts got their name because "plantar" means "of the sole" in Latin. Unlike other warts, the pressure from walking and standing makes them grow into your skin. You may have just one or a cluster (called mosaic warts). Because they're flat, tough, and thick, it's easy to confuse them with calluses. Look for black dots on the surface.
Filiform Warts
These fast-growing warts look thread-like and spiky, sometimes like tiny brushes. Because they tend to grow on the face -- around your mouth, eyes, and nose -- they can be annoying, even though they don't usually hurt.
Genital Warts
As you might expect, you get these by having sex with someone who has them. They may look like small, scattered, skin-colored bumps or like a cluster of bumps similar to a little bit of cauliflower on your genitals. And they can spread, even if you can't see them. Don't try to get rid of genital warts yourself; they can be hard to treat. Other types of HPV that could cause cancer may be passed sexually, too, including through oral and anal sex.
Peeling Supplements
Over-the-counter gels, liquids, and pads with salicylic acid work by peeling away the dead skin cells of the wart to gradually dissolve it. For better results, soak the wart in warm water, then gently sand it with a disposable emery board before you apply the product. Be sure to use a new emery board each time. Be patient -- it can take several months.
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Duct Tape
Yes, you may be able to get a remedy for warts at the hardware store! Study results are mixed, but covering warts with duct tape may peel away layers of skin and irritate it to kick-start your immune system. Soak, sand, and put duct tape on the area (use silver stuff because it's stickier). Remove and re-do the process every 5-6 days until the wart is gone. If it works for you, the wart should be gone within 4 weeks.
When Need a Doctor?
If you're not sure your skin growth is a wart (some skin cancers look like them), it doesn't get better with home treatment, it hurts, or you have a lot of them, check with your doctor. If you have diabetes or a weakened immune system, you should have a doctor take a look before you treat a wart yourself.
Cryosurgery
For adults and older children with common warts, your doctor will likely want to freeze them off with liquid nitrogen. (Because the nitrogen is so cold, it can cause a stabbing pain for a little while, which is why it's not used for small children.) You'll probably need more than one session. It works better when you follow up with a salicylic acid treatment after the area heals. Cryosurgery can cause light spots on people who have dark skin.
Cantharidin
"Painting" a wart with this liquid makes a blister form underneath it, lifting it off the skin. When the blister dries (after about a week), the wart comes off with the blistered skin. Cantharidin is often the way to treat young children because it doesn't hurt at first, though it may tingle, itch, burn, or swell a few hours later.
Burning and Cutting
Doctors may use one or both of these methods after they numb the area.Electrosurgery burns the wart with an electric charge through the tip of a needle. It's good for common warts, filiform warts, and foot warts. Your doctor could also use a laser.
Curettage is scraping off the wart with a sharp knife or small, spoon-shaped tool. Another option is excision, slicing the wart off or cutting it out with a sharp blade.
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Prescription Creams
For stubborn warts, peeling creams with glycolic acid, stronger salicylic acid, or tretinoin could do the trick. Diphencyprone (DCP) and imiquimod (Aldara) irritate your skin to encourage your immune system to go to work there. 5-Fluorouracil is a cancer medicine that may stop your body from making extra skin cells the same way it stops tumors from growing.
Injections
Your doctor may use a needle to put medicine into the wart to help get rid of it. Bleomycin, a cancer drug, may stop infected cells from making more. Interferon boosts your immune system to better fight the HPV, typically for genital warts.These usually aren't the first things your doctor will try, and you may need to use salicylic acid or duct tape on your wart, too.
Stop the Spread
There's no way yet to prevent warts,
but you can lower your chances of getting or spreading them:Don't touch, pick,
or scratch your warts, or touch someone else's.
Wash your hands after treating warts.
Keep foot warts dry.
Wear waterproof sandals or flip-flops in public showers, locker rooms, and
around public pools.
Symptoms-
Warts usually occur on your fingers or hands and may be:· Small, fleshy, grainy bumps
· Flesh-colored, white, pink or tan
· Rough to the touch
Sprinkled with black pinpoints, which are small, clotted blood vessels
Risk factors--
People at higher risk of developing common warts include:
· Children and young adults
· People with weakened immune systems, such as those with HIV/AIDS or people who've had organ transplants
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Homeopathic Treatment
THUJA OCC- 200-When thinking of warts Thuja is the first remedy coming in mind. Thuja occ. is useful for treating nearly all kids of warts on skin ,mucous membrane, genital organs and even anus. It is effective in Cauliflower like warts and peculated warts. Warts in crops , sometimes oozing moisture or blood. Mother tincture of Thuja can be applied externally for better cure.
ANTIMONIUM CRUD 30-Antim Crud is one of the top remedies for treating warts that are very hard . Thy are often found on soles and hands . The person may also overeat and have various digestive complaints.
CAUSTICUM 200- Causticum is an effective remedy for warts on face, eyelids, hands , tip of the nose and fingers. Warts have a soft base and horny on surface. It is suitable to many small warts.
DULCAMARA 30-Dulcamara is another important medicine for warts. It is prescribed for large for large, smooth, warts on face and palmar surface of hands. When Thuja fails to act then Dulcamara completes the cure. Dulcamara is suitable for people with rheumatic diseases that are worse in cold, damp weather or humidity.
FERRUM MET. 30- Ferrum met is effective for treating warts on left hand.
STAPHYSARIA 30-Staphysaria is suitable to fig warts that are pedunculated. Along with this other symptoms like feeling deep guilt and shame, sensitiveness , suppressed etc are found.
ARSENIC ALB 30- Arsenic album is effective remedy for warts on back of the hand , especially right hand.
SARSAPARILLA 30-Sarasparilla is effective for treating warts around the joints of fingers.
AURUM MUR 30- Warts on genitals and tongue are treated by Aurum muriaticum.
CARBO ANIMALIS 30-Carbo animalis is for treating warts on hands face of old people.
SEPIA 30-Sepia is effective for treating warts on margin of prepuce and on the body. Here the warts are large , hard and black.
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CALCAREA CARB 30-Calcare carb is for treating warts on face and hands. Here the warts are round, hard and solitary . It is also useful for endophytic warts that have a horny wall surrounding a central depression.Calcarea carb is suitable to fat, flabby persons with clammy hands and feet and profuse sweat in scalp especially at night. They have a peculiar craving for eggs. They are catching cold easily.
FERRUM PICRIC- 30- Ferrum picric is suitable to small pointed pedunculated warts appearing in large groups. Hands covered with warts. It is also useful for flat or plane warts with irregular borders that grow on the face, neck, wrists, hands and knees. In Ferrum Picricum men may have prostatic enlargement.
NITRIC ACID 30-Ntric acid is an excellent remedy for treating warts of large, fissured or gold-yellow that bleed on touch or wash.There may be sticking pain and moist oozing. Nitric acid is also indicated for people who are anxious about health and worry about cancer.
SABINA 30-Sabina is effective for treating figwarts with intolerable itching and burning . There is exuberant granulations. Black warts.
MAGNESIA SULH 30-Magnesia sulph is for treating warts covering on entire face.
NATRUM MUR 30-Natrum mur. is an important remedy for warts on palms of hands. Along with this other prescribing symptoms like those who are depressed and introverted , reserved and sensitive are seen.
RUTA GRAV- 30- Ruta graveolens is a leading remedy for plantar warts, especially on the palms of the hand.It is flat or smooth with sore pain. People needing Ruta graveolens are prone to injuries of tendons and periosteum of bone.
NATRUM CARB 30-Natrum carb is effective remedy for treating warts on palms of hands which is sore to touch.
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