Almost each and every one of us at least once in his life faced with a warts – knotty growths that affects the hands, fingers and feet, forearms and some other parts of the body. Usually the cause of these benign tumors is human papilloma virus (HPV), which infects every other person on the planet.
What you need to know about HPV?
Under the HPV are now seeing a whole group of viruses (over 100), which settles in the tissues and environments of the human body, from time to time, it can be shown to a clean, flat, and genital warts (the warts). HPV is most commonly transmitted by contact with infected skin, through towels, shared clothing, as well as sexually. This virus is easy to catch in the bath, the sauna, the swimming pool, the locker room of the fitness and other public places with high humidity and questionable sanitary conditions. To penetrate into the body, the virus survives forever, and a complete cure, unfortunately, do not give up.
And in the body of a carrier at a time can stay a few dozen strains of HPV. In the presence of a strong immune system and no chronic illnesses, HPV can remain in a state of sleep, not prove themselves. However, in the case of weakening the protective functions in the body, HPV can Express itself in the form of tumors, increase in body temperature, General malaise.
The most troublesome cause of the so-called plantar warts that appear on the feet in the zone of maximum friction during walking. These warts are grayish represent a callus-like seal, which can be extremely painful while walking. Extremely unpleasant, genital warts, the removal of which is problematic due to the thin skin in the area of their localization.
For the treatment of HPV today with the help of the special antiviral medications and immunotherapy, even though, as we have noted, to get rid of acquired the virus permanently date is not possible.
Medical methods for wart removal
In modern dermatology for the removal of tumors in the form of warts used several successful techniques:
- Cryosurgery. Burning benign tumors with liquid nitrogen. It only takes a few treatments to remove warts. The procedure is quite painful as the frozen nitrogen is in contact with the skin at a temperature of - 196 degrees Celsius. From the disadvantages of the method we note the difficulty of controlling the level of freezing during the burning, as well as the possibility for the appearance of a scar in place of the removed wart.
- Burning laser. Performed layer-by-layer removal of the growth with the use of local anesthesia medical lasers. This method is the least traumatic, so the cosmetic flaws on the side of the warts, as a rule, do not arise.
- Electrocoagulation. Methodology – the impact on the affected area of the skin with high frequency current. With deep roots burning warts after wound healing possible occurrence of scars.
- The surgical removal. Rarely used, as a rule, in a place of deep root growth. After excision of the body of the warts, the surgeon sutures, after the removal of the still visible scars. An innovative alternative – the so-called radio-wave surgery, involving the removal of warts using high-frequency radio-frequency (3,8-4,0 MHz).
Burn at home
To remove a standard wart can be in the home. For these purposes, the most commonly used cosmetic treatment compositions, made of natural celandine or active alkali.
Before you remove the wart to protect the healthy skin near by the affected area apply a thin layer of baby cream or vaseline. Now you can start to burn. To do this, apply a small drop of the composition directly on top of the warts and wait until it is completely dry. A similar procedure, you must repeat 1-2 times a day for several days. In the process of this treatment the wart will peel away and then disappears completely, leaving small pigmentary stain, which will disappear after a time.
Using this method for wart removal and genital warts, you should be extremely careful. Concentrated sodium hydroxide contained in such compositions is extremely aggressive, therefore in case of incorrect calculation of the volume of a single dose during a session of burning, the procedure may leave a deep chemical burns that will continue to be wet and for a long time to heal. The appearance of the scar or scars during such errors are inevitable.
Home cryotherapy and medicated plaster
To try to get rid of the warty knots with the help of modern medicines, is the basis for a special coolant mixture. The temperature of the liquid is 50-55 degrees Celsius. In strict accordance with the instructions from the manufacturers to ensure freedom from growth in the average for 10-14 days.
However, such drugs can not guarantee you a therapeutic effect. They usually show a good result only when you are working with small, single warts. Proven and special plasters or medicated pencils dipped in salicylic or lactic acid. This treatment can take up to one and a half to two months.
Does not want to give a
Despite the broad list of tools and methods developed for the removal of warts and papillomas caused by HPV, in order to ensure complete cure and absence of recurrence in the future will not make someone an expert. Unfortunately, the probability of the occurrence of such secondary growths are quite high. Things in the deep location of virus structures in the skin, and the wrong choice of medical techniques.
To best to protect yourself from relapse, you need to constantly support your immune system, take vitamins, try to avoid shaking hands with strangers, to monitor the integrity of the skin (use gloves or protective gloves at work), avoid tight shoes and corns on the soles of the feet.
Precautions
They decide for the removal of papillomas, be sure to consult with a surgeon or dermatologist. It is possible that you could confuse and make an ordinary nevus or capillary hemangioma for a flat wart. And the burning of a nevus can lead to tragic consequences, until the cancer problem.
Consultation with a specialist, renting the necessary tests, and then remove growths in the clinic will allow you to avoid risks and maintain your health.