Almost every one of us in our lives encounters warts - knit outgrowths that affect the arms, fingers and toes of the legs, armpits and some other parts of the body.As a rule, the reason for these benign neoplasms is human papillomavirus (HPV), which affects every second resident of the planet.
What do you need to know about HPV?
Today, HPV understands a whole group of viruses (more than 100), which are established in tissues and environments of the human body, occasionally can manifest themselves in the form of ordinary, flat, pointed warts (in fact, warts).HPVS is most often transmitted through contact with the skin of the infected, by towels, ordinary clothes, and sexually.Such a virus can be easily taken in a bathroom, a sauna with a swimming pool, a dressing room for a fitness club and other public places with high humidity and dubious sanitary conditions.Once it has penetrated the body, the virus is rooted forever and, unfortunately, does not lend itself to full treatment.
In addition, in the body of one carrier, several dozen HPV strains can live at the same time.In the presence of severe immunity and the lack of chronic diseases, the papillomavirus can be in a state of naps without showing.However, in the case of a weakening of the body's protective functions, HPV can be declared in the form of neoplasms, increase body temperature, general disease.
SO -the torn plantar warts that appear on the feet in the area of the largest friction while walking are called the most problems.Such warts are gray -like calus -like seals that are extremely painful while walking.Genital warts are also extremely unpleasant, the removal of which is quite problematic due to thin skin in the area of their location.
Special antiviral drugs are used today for HPV treatment as well as immunotherapy, although, as we have already noted, it is not possible to get rid of acquired viruses today.
Medical methods to remove warts
In modern dermatology, several successful techniques for removing neoplasms in the form of warts are used:
- Crossing.Burning benign neoplasm with liquid nitrogen.Only a few procedures are enough to completely remove the wart.The procedure is quite painful as frozen nitrogen contacts the skin at a temperature B - 196 degrees Celsius.From the disadvantages of the methodology, we note the difficulty of monitoring the level of freezing during cauterization, as well as the possibility of a scar at the site of a remote wart.
- Burn with laser.The removal of the growth layer is performed with the help of local anesthesia with medical lasers.This method is the less traumatic, therefore the cosmetic defects in the place of the wart, as a rule, do not occur.
- Electrocoagulation.The methodology is based on the effect on the affected area of the skin with high frequency current.With the deep burning of the roots of the wart, a scar may appear after healing the wound.
- Surgical removal.It is used quite rarely, usually with a deep arrangement of growth roots.After cutting the body of the wart, the surgeon imposes the seams, after the removal of which remains the visible scar.The innovative variant is the so-called radio wave operation, which involves removing a wart using high frequency radio waves (3.8-4.0 MHz).
Burning at home
You can delete a conventional wart at home.For these purposes, cosmetic compounds made on the basis of natural celandine or active alkali are most commonly used.
Before removing the wart for the protection of healthy skin, a thin layer of baby cream or oil jelly should be applied directly near the affected area.You can now start burning directly.To do this, apply a small drop of the composition directly to the wart and wait for it to dry.You will need to repeat a similar procedure 1-2 times a day for several days.In the process of such treatment, the wart will exfoliate and then completely disappear, leaving behind a small pigmentation place that will disappear after a while.
Using this method to remove warts and pointed papillomas, you should be extremely careful.The concentrated alkali contained in such compositions are extremely aggressive, therefore, with the improper calculation of the volume per dose during a hot session, the procedure can leave behind a deep chemical burning, which will be further wet and will be healed for a long time.The appearance of scars or scar with such errors is inevitable.
Home Cryotherapy and Therapeutic Patch
You can try to get rid of the wart nodes with the help of modern medicines that are based on a special cooling mixture.The temperature of such a fluid is 50-55 degrees Celsius.With strict adherence to the instructions, manufacturers guarantee that they get rid of growth on average for 10-14 days.
However, such medicines cannot guarantee you a therapeutic effect.Usually they show a good result only in the fight against small single warts.Special plasters or medical pencils soaked in salicylic or lactic acids have proven well.Such a course of treatment can take you to one and a half to two months.
No one will give guarantees
Despite the wide list of means and methods designed to remove warts and papillomas caused by HPV, no specialist will take a complete cure and lack of relapse in the future.Unfortunately, the likelihood of the secondary appearance of such outgrowths is quite high.Everything is related to the deep arrangement of viral structures in the skin, as well as the wrong choice of therapeutic techniques.
To protect yourself as much as possible from relapses, you need to constantly maintain your immune system, take vitamins complexes, try to avoid handshakes with strangers, observe the integrity of the skin (wear gloves or protective gloves in production), avoid tight shoes and the appearance of corn.
Precautions
Once you have decided to remove the papilloma, be sure to consult a surgeon or dermatologist.After all, it is possible to confuse and take a simple nevus or capillary hemangioma for a flat wart.And burning a nevus can lead to sad consequences, to cancer.
Consultation with a specialist, conducting the necessary tests and then eliminating growth in the clinic will allow you to avoid risks and maintain your health.