How to Get Rid of Warts? Natural Treatment for Warts

Warts

These rough, small lumps appear as a rule on the skin of feet and hands. Warts are benign and pose no danger to health.

There are different types of warts. They vary depending on thickness of the skin and their location on it. For instance, warts on the feet sole are called verruca (or plantar wart, which is their clinical name).

The human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for warts appearing on the skin. This infection causes excessive growth of keratin, a hard protein in the epidermis, the upper layer of the skin. As a result of this process appears hard, rough texture, called wart.

Though warts most commonly appear on feet and hands, there are types that appear on other areas of human body, too. Warts that appear on the face are called filiform warts; those, occurring on the soles of feet, are called plantar warts; genital warts appear around female and male genitals or on them. Another type of warts, called periungal, infects the skin around and under toenails and fingernail. The flat wart type is found on the commonly shaved areas such as legs or face.

Symptoms of Warts

Warts differ greatly in their sizes and shapes. They may have a smooth and flat surface, as well as a bumpy and rough one. Blood to the wart is supplied by capillaries (tiny blood vessels) that grow into the very core of the wart. These capillaries are usually visible as seeds (dark dots) in the center of both plantar and common warts.

Here is general description of main symptoms of warts:

• Usually dome-shaped, gray-brown and rough, common warts most often occur on hands, though they may appear on any other part of the body, too. They may occur singly as well as in groups.
• Developing on any part of the foot, plantar warts can have dark visible specks beneath their surface. When pushed under the skin's surface from walking or standing, plantar wart develops a layer of rough thick skin that reminds a callus. As wart and callus grow larger, they make walking quite painful, as if there is a small stone in the shoe. Plantar warts can grow into a colony, a flat, large cluster also called a "mosaic wart."
• Commonly appearing on legs, arms or face, flat warts are small (usually smaller than a green pea), have flat tops and can be light brown, light yellow or pink. As a rule, flat warts develop a colony on one area of the skin.
• The surface of filiform warts usually has multiple finger-shaped, flesh-colored projections. This kind of flat warts grows as a rule around nose, mouth and beard area.
• Found around and under fingernails and toenails, periungual warts look like irregular, rough bumps. This type of warts can affect growth of nails.
• Genital warts are usually difficult to detect, so small they are. You can find more information on them in Genital Warts topic.

As a rule neither flat nor common warts cause pain, thought they can be frustrating and can spread quite fast, especially if on areas that are frequently irritated by shaving or rubbing. For some people visible warts can be quite embarrassing and they may want to find out how to get rid of warts. Plantar warts on feet can be rather painful, especially when located on bony areas.

Causes of Warts

The human papillomavirus is a cause of warts. It infects the upper layers of skin and makes skin cells grow much faster. A single wart usually reproduces itself into multiple ones, spreading the virus to other areas of the body. All the different types of this virus flourish in damp, warm environments such as swimming pool areas, showers or locker room floors.

Warts are more likely to develop on the areas with broken skin. The virus can penetrate into your body through a cut, scrape, closely bitten nails or a hangnail. For instance, swimmers are more prone to developing plantar warts, since their feet are mostly damp, with skin not only softened, but also broken and scratched by walking barefoot on pool surfaces. And people, who handle chicken, meat or fish, are more likely to develop common warts.

Direct contact with a source of human papillomavirus is one of the main cause of warts. The virus can reproduce itself on some other area of your body, if you touch your wart and then a non-infected area. The virus can pass to others also by sharing such personal items as razors, towels, etc. After being exposed to human papillomavirus, a wart may take months to become noticeable on the skin surface. In its initial stage it grows slowly beneath the skin and it's almost impossible to get rid of warts.

However, not every exposure to human papillomavirus results in developing a wart, since some people are more prone to developing the infection than others.

How to Get Rid of Warts?

Warts do not necessarily need to be treated. As a rule, they disappear on their own, though it may take months or years. This much time human immune system needs to destroy the wart virus.

You may need to learn how to get rid of warts if:

• it is painful;
• it is easily irritated;
• it is embarrassing;
• it is spreading to other parts of the body or can infect other people.

What is essential about natural wart removal is that it should not create scar tissues, which can cause even more pain than the wart itself. There are different methods of wart removal depending on the location of wart, its type and degree of spread. The success of natural wart removal also largely depends on your willingness to follow the course of warts treatment, which may last weeks or months.

Natural Treatment for Warts

For children surgical warts removal may be too painful. Besides, surgery does not eliminate the wart virus; hence, chances are that it may return after surgery. A carefully administered natural treatment for warts, as a rule, is less painful, and its results are more effective than those of surgical warts treatment.

Scarring is also less likely to appear as a result of natural treatment for warts. The available natural warts removal options are: creams, paints, plasters, patches and tapes applied directly on the wart.

Natural treatment for warts uses a unique blend of FDA-approved ingredients and all-natural oils that help initiate a scientific process called Keratolysis. This process involves thinning the toughened layers of skin produced by the HPV virus at the site of the wart, so they can be shed.

We recommend the following warts treatment products:

1. Wartrol — 96 points
2. H-Warts — 83 points

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Wartrol Ingredients: Black Sulphide of Antimony, Wild Yellow Indigo, Potassium Hydrate, Salicylic Acid, Arbor Vitae.

Suggested Use: Apply Wartrol liquid to the wart using the application brush. Air dry for about 60 seconds.

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Ingredients: Phytolacca decandra, Thuja occidentalis, Essential Oil Blend (Citrus limon peel, Melaleuca alternifolia leaf-branch, Thuja occidentalis leaf).

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How to Prevent Warts?

Since the virus starts developing after a person has been exposed to it, the surest preventive measure would be to avoid coming in touch with items and surfaces that may carry the human papillomavirus (HPV). However, whether you develop warts or not depends largely on how susceptible you are to the infection.

Things you can do to avoid contact with the human papillomavirus and prevent warts:

• Do not share such personal items as towels, razors, shoes or socks. A person can be carrying the virus even if he or she has no visible warts.
• Do not touch warts on others or on yourself.
• Do not walk barefoot in public places like showers, pools or locker rooms. Such moist and warm surfaces are most likely to carry the wart virus.
• Make sure your feet are always dry; if they sweat heavily, wear socks that would wick away the moisture from your skin.
• Make sure the skin of your feet soles is intact, since broken or injured skin is a gateway for the virus to your body.

Things you can do to prevent spreading of warts:

• Wear an athletic tape or a bandage over your warts to keep them covered.
• To prevent spreading of warts from one finger to others, do not bite your cuticles or nails.