What are warts?
Warts - a rounded formation on the skin. They may be lighter or darker than the surrounding skin. On the surface of warts can sometimes see black dots, which are called seeds. Thus look zatrombirovannye small blood vessels within the wart.
Warts can grow individually and in groups. Sometimes they merge into a large cake.
Warts are caused by viruses. They are infected by another person. Often infected or damaged skin softened in water, but the warts can affect and healthy skin.
By exposure to the virus until the warts can pass up to six months.
Who are warts?
Most often they are children and young people. Also warts infected people who have to work a lot butchering meat, fish or poultry.
The fastest growing and less amenable to the treatment of warts in people with chronic skin diseases (such as eczema), and a weakened immune system.
In some places there are warts?
There are the following types of warts:
- Common warts that appear anywhere. Most often in the fingers, hands, knees and elbows.
- Periungual warts.
- Plantar warts.
- Flat warts on the back of hands, face and legs.
Diagnosis
Warts are so distinctive appearance that no further investigation is required.
warts treatment
Warts Treatment depends on where they are and how much interfere with life. Treatment is not always necessary, because some two-thirds warts go away on their own for a few years. On the other hand, during this time the warts may grow and dissipate, and it is more convenient to treat small warts.
There are many ways to treat warts. It is always better to consult a doctor. Especially if you have some other health problems.
Some treatment options may take weeks or even months. After treatment, the warts can always reappear. Particularly difficult to treat plantar and periungual warts.
Home Treatment
Salicylic acid
Salicylic acid is applied directly onto the wart.
Salicylic acid may be a liquid or as a patch of calluses.
Some preparations of salicylic acid appoint a doctor.
Salicylic acid helps with all kinds of warts. It can be used in children.
If decided to undergo treatment with salicylic acid in the home, the first well rasparte affected skin in hot water for 10 - 20 minutes. It is necessary for softening the skin. Apply a preparation of salicylic acid to the wart before bed and leave overnight.
Between such applications will need to remove the upper layer soften skin using a nail file or pumice. No need to be afraid, if the skin turns red, and from the warts will perform blood droplets. This is an indication that the treatment acts on the wart.
Such application and cleaning of the skin needs to be repeated more one - two weeks after the wart eventually falls off. The only way to ensure that it was possible to get rid of the virus.
Salicylic acid should not be used if you have signs of neuropathy, with numbness and impaired sensitivity of the skin. Because in this case, it can be very damaging to the skin and do not notice it
reinforced tape
Reinforced tape - a multi-layered silver tape. For some reason it helps with warts. No one knows exactly how it works. Some studies confirm the effect, in some - not.
What is needed is a thick silver tape. Its paste over the wart and leave for six days. After that, an adhesive tape is removed, the skin steamed and remove the softened skin nail file or pumice stone. Allow the cleaned skin overnight and breathe again, cover it with adhesive tape.
usually need about a month, So as to get rid of warts.
If, within two weeks you do not notice improvement, it is likely that this method of treatment does not help.
Reinforced tape is not recommended for people with diabetic neuropathy, peripheral arterial disease or other diseases that may be damaged skin. In such cases, the skin can result in ulcers gluing or infection.
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