Symptoms

Probably because of all the existing types of warts that affect different parts of the body, plantar warts it can deprive a person of little efficiency. The fact is that plantar warts appear in areas of high pressure and friction in the area of ​​the stop.

Plantar warts - is benign tumors in the feet caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), which enters the body through small cuts, cracks and other damaged skin.

In most cases, plantar warts occur on those parts of the feet, which are experiencing the greatest pressure such as a heel or finger pads. Sometimes, due to the strong pressure, plantar warts grow inward and covered by a hard, thick callus.

Most plantar warts is not a serious medical problem and requires no treatment. However, warts can be uncomfortable and painful. If you can not remove them at home, you need to see a doctor.

Signs and symptoms of plantar warts include:

• Small, fleshy, rough lesions or growths on the feet.
• Coarse, thick layer of skin (callus), sharply above the outstanding portion, that is, over the place of the plantar warts penetration into the deeper layers of the skin.
• The black dots that are usually called "grains", but which actually are thrombosed small blood vessels.
• Lesions that lead to distortion of lines and the skin on the feet.
• Pain or tenderness while walking or standing.

When should I see a doctor:

• Pain in the affected areas of the skin, changes in the type or color.
• Warts do not disappear, multiply and reappear, and home treatment does not help.
• Warts begin to interfere with the patient lead a normal life.
• If you have diabetes or nerve damage (neuropathy) of the foot can not be used folk remedies.
• In the case where the patient's immune system is weakened by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), immunosuppressive drugs or other diseases of the immune system.
• When there is no doubt that the defeat of the skin is just a wart.

In these cases, the doctor will make a treatment plan, or the correct diagnosis.

Why is there

The cause of plantar warts is an infection caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), which infects the top layer of the skin of feet.

There are over a hundred types of HPV, but only a few of them are able to provoke the emergence of plantar warts. Other types of human papilloma virus are usually the cause of warts on other parts of the body or on the mucous membranes.

Transmission of the virus

The immune system of different people react differently to the human papilloma virus, so not everyone who is in contact with the virus, developed plantar warts. Even for the same family and it can affect differently.

The strains which cause the plantar warts are not is a highly. Therefore, they are not always transmitted by direct contact with patients. However, the virus thrives in warm and moist environments, such as on the floor of the shower room, sauna, changing rooms at the swimming pool. Consequently, in contact with the virus can enter if going barefoot in public.

In addition, the virus can penetrate the skin only after:

• Cracks, cuts or scratches
• The wet, steaming, vulnerable after prolonged contact with water (macerated) skin

Multiple warts

Propagation of virus around the site where initially penetrated infection, can lead to the formation of multiple warts. These include:

• Several individual warts on different parts of the foot.
• "Warts or kissing" - two warts that form on the point of contact of the two portions of the foot, for example, two fingers or a finger inside the fold.
• Mosaic warts - warts is a group, which generally forms the one great defeat.

At the doctor

In most cases, the doctor diagnoses the presence of plantar warts after a physical examination of defeat. If the doctor has any doubts, he cuts off a piece of the affected tissue with a scalpel. A sign of plantar warts are black dots - small thrombosed capillaries.

If the doctor is still in doubt about the diagnosis, the doctor cuts a small piece of the build-up (shaving biopsy) and send it to the laboratory for analysis.

Today, for the treatment of plantar warts are different methods and medications. There are also quite effective treatments that are available in pharmacies without a prescription and used at home. Such means include: a concentrated solution of salicylic acid plasters impregnated with salicylic acid, silver nitrate, and a special preparation cantharidin adhesive tape. Several ways to remove plantar warts: cryotherapy Cryotherapy , Curettage and laser therapy. Furthermore, to remove dead tissue, or the skin around the plantar warts in combination with means of topical application, e.g., creams and other recommended chemicals used abrasive nail file or pumice.

Inattention or frivolous attitude to the problem of plantar warts can lead to the fact that the patient will not be able to run or walk. So, when symptoms of the disease should immediately contact a doctor. This is the only way to "bring up" those who are suffering from plantar warts.

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