Warts

Warts

These small, noncancerous growths appear when skin is infected with one of the viruses of the human papillomavirus (HPV). The virus triggers extra cell growth, which makes the outer layer of skin thick and hard in that spot. While they can grow anywhere on skin.

People with chronic skin conditions, such as eczema, or who bite their nails or pick at hangnails are prone to get warts.

 

Recommended treatment duration is 6 months -1 year.

Depend upon case to case. In exceptional cases it can take more than or even less than expected time duration.

Expectation is gradual betterment in discomfort, itching if any. 

Post inflammatory hyperpigmentation will go gradually.

 

Diagnosis.

• Clinical Examination of the wart.
• Scraping off the top layer of the wart to check for signs of dark, pinpoint dots — clotted blood vessels.
• Removing a small section of the wart (shave biopsy)

 

Symptoms

Unwanted growth of different shape and size.

Rarely has other symptoms like itching bleeding etc. 

 

TYPES

 

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 eruptions.

They develop where the skin was broken.

Plantar Warts

Plantar is a word for "sole" in Latin. Unlike other warts, the pressure from walking and standing makes them grow into your skin. Because they're flat, tough, and thick, it's easy to confuse them with calluses. Black dots on the surface are differentiating point.

Flat Warts

These warts are smaller (pinpoint or like a thick thread) and smoother than other types. They tend to grow in large numbers -- often 10 to 100 at a time. Flat warts mostly appear on children's faces, men's beard and women's legs.

Filiform Warts

These fast-growing warts look thread-like and spiky, sometimes like tiny brushes.They tend to grow on the face, around mouth, eyes, and nose.

Genital Warts

Spread by having sex with someone who has warts. They may look like small, scattered, skin-colored eruptions or like a cluster of eruptions similar to a little bit of broccoli on genitals. And they can spread. 

Prevention

• Don't touch, pick, or scratch your warts, or touch someone else's.
• Wash your hands after treating warts.
• Keep foot warts dry.
• Do not brush, comb, shave, or clip hair in areas that have warts.
• Do not share shoes or socks with other people
• When filing or cutting nails, do not use the same utensil on the infected nail and the healthy nails
• Wear waterproof sandals or flip-flops in public showers, locker rooms, and around public pools.
• Do not use other people’s towels, washcloths, or other personal items.

 

 Treatment 

 

Homeopathic medications.

Counselling and educating about the disease.

Required dos and don'ts. 

Dietary advice and restrictions if any.