From ancient times, ugly formations on the body affected humanity. A skin disease caused by a wart on the foot caused by a virus. People with skin defects were shunned, afraid of infection, and, having noticed a neoplasm on the individual body or another part of the body, tried to remove it as soon as possible. What people do not apply to their plantar warts, unless they disappear forever. To date, dermatologists are looking for the most effective and painless method to treat the disease.
What a wart
The human papillomavirus induces benign or oncological mutation of DNA in skin cells. The body is covered with papillomas, warts, papules. More than one hundred types of HPV have been studied. A wart is a skin growth that indicates the presence of the first or third type of papilloma virus in the body. The neoplasms may not be carcinogenic, but highly contagious due to the viability of the pathogen in the external environment.
What does a leg wart look like?
The plantar neoplasm has a rounded shape with clear edges a few millimeters or centimeters in size. In the center, black dots of clogged capillaries are visible. On the leg, they look like old, dry calls that have grown into the skin. The pain from the plantar growth does not manifest under direct pressure, but on compression. Lack of papillary lines on the leg is characteristic.
Causes the plantar wart
HPV infections are more common with unprotected intercourse. The virus passes through microelements in the mucous membranes of the genital organs. Someone's HPV is "in transit", while others are unlucky - the virus enters the body, without expressing itself for a long time. Dermatologists do not rule out that the appearance of papillomas on the surface of the feet promotes immune disorders and infectious diseases.
Walking barefoot in public places: baths, swimming pools, body care salons, shared bathrooms, on the beach, trying on barefoot shoes are the most common causes of plantar wart. The virus is viable outside its host and "stays with the victim" on towels, tiles, laundry, furniture, guest slippers, etc. The infection attracts dense areas of skin of the plantar surfaces and palms, where the papilloma virus passes through minor injuries.
Warts on children's feet
Children are restless, often injured. Parents may not be aware of the presence of HPV in the child's body, which is obtained through cuts and abrasives. With weakened immunity, the virus becomes active, papilloma appears on the leg. Painful methods to treat warts on the feet in children are often contraindicated, poorly accepted. Often, the body of the child treats this disease of the skin of the feet by itself.
Types of warts on the feet
Warts are a collection of skin lesions caused by papilloma. Depending on the external manifestation, the impact on human health, the following types of warts are classified:
- vulgar (normal) - keratinized round blisters;
- flat - rash in the form of spots rising above the skin;
- filiform (acrochords) - elongated with "torn" edges, formed in the folds of the body;
- genital warts - reminiscent of the comb of a rooster;
- senile (keratomas) - occurring in the elderly, unrelated to HPV.
Wart formations are localized throughout the body, on internal organs, in the oral cavity. Warts of the feet are a common type of plantar warts. One of the well-formed forms, which are depressed, are those that are pressed into the skin, which are characterized by rapid growth. The appearance of the subungual growths raises the nail plate slightly.
Plantar wart treatment
It is dangerous to neglect the treatment of plantar warts. Neoplasms of the legs are always injured. They are removed to enter the appearance of new growths and infections. There is no complete cure for HPV. Treatment is reduced to turning the disease into a "sleep mode". Available medication, surgery, immunomodulatory removal of plantar warts, using alternative medicine.
The disadvantage of treating plantar fascia is located in its location: it is difficult to deliver active substances to the depth of formation on the leg due to the large stratum corner of the epidermis. In preparation for therapy, the top layer of the erection is saturated and exfoliated. Traditionally, the treatment of warts on the feet begins with the use of salicylic acid. The wart on the leg is taken daily, for three months, steamed in a bath, disinfected, then the soft top layer is cleaned with pumice stone, salicylic acid is applied, and a patch is applied.
Pharmaceutical chains offer advice on how to get rid of a foot wart with the help of medicines containing celandine, phenol, trichloroacetic acid. The drugs cause tissue necrosis, relieving the patient from the deficiency, but leave a trail of deep wound healing. Each individual disease is to varying degrees, so before choosing a method of wart removal on the basis of one foot, you should seek the opinion of your doctor.
Ointment
By mode of action, ointments are necrotizing, antiviral, herbal. First of all, the acid or alkali in the base of the ointment slows down the painful growth and leaves a scar. At home, to treat the feet, you can use liquid solutions: with acetic, nitric, oxalic, lactic acids in the composition. To avoid burns, the surface of the neoplasm is rigorously processed.
Antiviral ointment for warts on the foot is applied to the growth itself and the surrounding area to reduce the growth of the infection. They are used with special ointments. Herbal ingredients only affect the formation of the skin. They are known for their effectiveness in treating foot balm with an applicator, colhamin ointment.
Modern methods of removal
The advent of modern methods of removing warts has replaced the traumatic scalpel. Like the surgeon's knife, the electrocoagulator burns the neoplasm on the leg downstream. After the laser or radio wave removal procedure, depression remains on the leg. Healing takes several weeks. Exposure to liquid nitrogen is considered a very painful treatment and requires several treatments. In 2014, British dermatologists published material on the latest antigen injection therapy. It will help patients who are resistant to existing treatments.
Folk remedies
Procedures are performed with folk remedies for warts on the feet before bedtime, with pre-steamed feet and for a long time. During handling, protect your hands with latex gloves from further spread of the infection, disinfect all devices and objects used to prevent relative infection. List of considered effective folk remedies for getting rid of feet from wart:
- Garlic is known for its antibiotic properties. In neoplasm of the entity, the upper hardened layer is cut, thin cloves of garlic are applied.
- You can make "anti-beard dough". It is ground from finely grated garlic, vinegar, wheat flour, spread on the surface of the neoplasm and sealed with plaster. After a few days, the dough is removed along with the build-up.
- Put vinegar-insulated onion on the leg, or you can rub the growth with vinegar, then tie fresh onion.
- You can fill the gel with medicinal plant juice: tie celandine, Kalanchoe, calendula, milkweed, dandelion, golden mustache, or a slice of apple, mountain ash, figs, potatoes, horseradish, cabbage. The procedure is performed daily, lasting from several weeks to months, until erection subsides.
- You can put wood ash diluted in water in a creamy condition.
- The growth is sprinkled with ground chalk in powder and wrapped with a bandage. The compression cannot be wetted.
- Birch bark and willow containing salicylate are well treated. The bark is placed on the leg, and pre-soaked with boiling water.
- Warm foot baths with sea salt, soda, laundry soap, tea tree oil or spruce broth help in the treatment of foot diseases. Treatments can be mixed or varied.
- Wormwood blanket applications are used. 3 tablespoons of dried wormwood herb is boiled in a glass of boiling water, insist for at least 2 hours.