Almost each of us at least once in our life fell on warts - knotted growths that affect the hands, fingers and legs of the legs, armpits and some other parts of the body.As a rule, the cause of these mild neoplasms is the human papillomavirus (HPV), which affects each second resident of the planet.
What should you know about HPV?
The HPV today understands a whole group of viruses (more than 100), which have settled in the tissues and environments of the human body, can from time to time manifest in the form of ordinary, flat and sharp warts (in fact, warts).HPVs are most often transmitted by contact with the skin of the infected, by towels, common clothes, as well as sexually.Such a virus can easily be picked up in a bathing bath, a pool sauna, a locker room for a fitness club and other public places with high humidity and questionable sanitary conditions.Having penetrated the body, the virus takes root forever and, unfortunately, does not give in to finish the healing.
In addition, in the body of a carrier, several dozen VPH strains can live at the same time.In the presence of severe immunity and the absence of chronic diseases, the papillom virus can be in a state of nap, without being shown.However, in the case of the weakening of body protection functions, HPV can be declared in the format of neoplasms, increase body temperature, general disease.
The so-called plantar warts that appear on the feet in the largest friction area during walking are the most called the most troubled.These warts are grayish seals similar to calls that are extremely painful while walking.The genital warts are also extremely unpleasant, whose elimination is quite problematic due to thin skin in the area of their location.
For the treatment of HPV, special antiviral drugs are used today, as well as immunotherapy, although, as we have already noted, it is not possible to get rid of the viruses acquired forever today.
Medical methods to eliminate warts
In modern dermatology, several successful techniques are used to eliminate neoplasms in the form of warts:
- Cryodestruction.Burn a benign neoplasm with liquid nitrogen.Some procedures are enough to completely remove the wart.The procedure is quite painful, because frozen nitrogen comes into contact with the skin at a temperature of - 196 degrees Celsius.Among the gaps in the methodology, we note the difficulty of monitoring the level of frost during cauterization, as well as the possibility of the appearance of a scar on the site of a distant wart.
- Burn with a laser.The elimination of the growth layer is carried out using local anesthesia with medical lasers.This method is the least traumatic, therefore the cosmetic defects on the site 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 a high frequency current.With a deep burn of the roots of the wart after healing the wound, a scar can occur.
- Surgical removal.It is used quite rarely, generally with a deep arrangement of the roots of growth.After excision of the body of the wart, the surgeon imposes the seams, after the withdrawal of which the visible scar remains.The innovative option is so-called radio wave surgery, which implies the elimination of a wart using high frequency radio waves (3.8-4.0 MHz).
Burn at home
You can delete a conventional wart at home.For these purposes, the cosmetic treatment compounds made on the basis of natural celandin or active alkali are most often used.
Before removing the wart to protect the healthy skin, a thin layer of children's 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 its full drying.You will have to repeat a similar procedure 1 to 2 times a day for several days.In the process of such treatment, the wart will exfoliate, then will disappear completely, leaving behind a small pigmentary place, which will disappear after a while.
Using this method of deleting warts and sharp papillomas, you must be extremely careful.The concentrated alkali contained in such compositions is extremely aggressive, therefore, with the incorrect calculation of the volume of a single dose during a burning session, the procedure can leave a deep chemical burn, which will still be wet and heal for a long period.The appearance of scars or scar with such errors is inevitable.
Home cryotherapy and therapeutic patch
You can try to get rid of the pointing nodes using modern drugs, which are based on a special cooling mixture.The temperature of such a liquid is 50 to 55 degrees Celsius.With strict compliance with the instructions, manufacturers guarantee to get rid of growth on average in 10-14 days.
However, these drugs cannot guarantee you a therapeutic effect.Usually, they only show a good result in the fight against small simple warts.Special windings or medical pencils, soaked in salicylic or lactic acids, have proven itself.Such a treatment lesson can take you to a half to two months.
No one will give guarantees
Despite the wide list of means and methods intended to eliminate warts and papillomas caused by HPV, no specialist will carry a complete remedy and a lack of relapse in the future.Unfortunately, the probability of the secondary appearance of these growths is quite high.This is the deep arrangement of viral structures in the skin, as well as in the poor choice of therapeutic techniques.
In order to protect yourself as much as possible from relapses, it is necessary to constantly maintain your immune system, to take vitamin complexes, to try to avoid hand handles with unknown people, to monitor the integrity of the skin (wear gloves or protective mittens in production), avoid tight shoes and the occurrence of corn on the soles of the feet.
Precautions
After decided to eliminate the papilloma, be sure to consult a surgeon or a dermatologist.After all, you may be able to confuse and accept an ordinary naevus or a hair hemangioma for a flat wart.And naevus burn can cause sad consequences, until cancer appears.
Consultation with a specialist, delivery of the necessary tests, then the removal of growth in the clinic will allow you to avoid risks and maintain your health.