Most plantar warts Plantar warts - the pain with every step   does not require any treatment. Most of the wart goes away within two years without any intervention. But if they start to hurt, or to grow, it is necessary to carry out a course of treatment. It is much easier to get rid of small warts, than on large ones.

Sometimes plantar warts appear difficult. Then you have to be patient, persevere and apply various treatments.

People with diabetes who have nerve damage stops or a weakened immune system, should be treated only under medical supervision. The doctor will assess the effectiveness of the course, as well as to monitor the healing process of affected areas.

Treatments that may be prescribed by a doctor

If home treatment does not help, your doctor may recommend other methods. Usually the course begin with the least painful way that causes the least side effects and scar deformities. Scars on the feet are painful. Furthermore, such deformation is irreversible. Often warts can reappear after some time, and treatment must be repeated.

• Cryosurgery (cryotherapy). In order to freeze and destroy the wart, liquid nitrogen is used, which is applied with a spray can or a cotton swab. Warts appear around the bubble. About a week dead tissue is completely eliminated. The procedure can be painful, and it may be formed after painful blisters which gradually extend themselves.
• Cantharidin. Your doctor may also be used to treat plantar warts cantharidin - a substance extracted from the hemolymph beetles Meloidae. Typically, an extract is combined with salicylic acid, the mixture was applied on a plantar wart and superimposed on top of the bandage. The first application of this method, the procedure does not cause discomfort, but the bubble that appears afterwards, may be ill. About a week later the doctor cuts away dead skin.
• Immunotherapy. This method aims to using the resources of the body's immune system to get rid of difficult to treat warts. There are two ways of treatment. You can enter into the wart interferon - a drug that stimulates the immune system for rejection of tumors. Or you can enter into the wart foreign substance (antigen), which activates the immune system. Doctors often use the mumps virus antigens, as many people are immune to it. As a result, the antigen triggers an immune response that helps the body deal with neoplasms. In those cases where the interferon is used within a few hours after the procedure, there may be symptoms of influenza-like symptoms. Both methods can cause pain.
• Imiquimod (Aldara). This cream, which is applied directly to a wart is an immunotherapeutic drug, promotes the development of the organism immune system proteins (cytokines), human papilloma virus attack. After this procedure around the affected area may occur severe inflammation and tissue damage, cover the wart. In this case, imiquimod treatment ceases. Also, the drug can cause symptoms similar to flu-like symptoms, which are reduced at lower doses of medication.
• Small surgical intervention. The wart is cut or destroyed by cauterization electric needle. These procedures are called fulguration and curettage. Before the procedure the doctor spends anesthesia of the skin. Because of the risk of scarring the skin in the treatment of warts this procedure are trying to use as little as possible.
• Laser therapy. It uses pulsed dye laser, with which clogged cauterize small blood vessels. As a result, the affected tissue dies and the wart disappears. A side effect of this method can be painful and scarring deformation.

Whatever treatment is used, the doctor always tells the patient how to bandage a wound to the wart, or how to remove yourself dead tissue in the interval between inspections, how to clean the exposure area, and how, if necessary, change the bandage.

Also, your doctor may recommend medication without a prescription, which should be used in conjunction with other methods, and between inspections. Also, the doctor may advise the use of antibiotic cream that helps protect the skin against the penetration of common infections after removal of plantar warts or after the bubble burst, formed in the course of treatment.

Prevention

To reduce the risk of plantar warts:

• You should avoid direct contact with warts. In particular, and with their own.
• It is necessary to ensure that the feet are clean and dry. It is a daily change shoes and socks.
• Do not walk barefoot in public places. On the territory of the public swimming pools and locker rooms need shoe slippers or sandals.
• Do not try to otkovyryat wart. This contributes to the spread of the virus.
• For the treatment of warts and to care for healthy skin and nails, use different nail files, pumice stones and nail clippers.
• After contact with warts need to wash their hands thoroughly.

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