Almost all of us at least once in our lives encountered warts - growth of the knot that affects our hands, fingers and feet, armpits and some other parts of the body.As a rule, the cause of these benign neoplasms is human papillomavirus (HPV), which affects every second inhabitant of the planet.
What do you need to know about HPV?
HPV today understands a whole group of viruses (more than 100), which were placed in tissues and media of the human body, can occasionally manifest in the form of ordinary, flat, pronounced warts (in fact, warts).HPV is most often transmitted through contact with the skin of the infected, through towels, ordinary clothes, and sexually.Such a virus can be easily taken in a bath, a pool sauna, a locker room for a fitness club and other high -humidity public places and suspicious sanitary conditions.By penetrating the body, the virus takes root permanently and, unfortunately, does not surrender to cure complete.
Moreover, in the body of a carrier, several tens of HPV strains can live at the same time.In the presence of severe immunity and the lack of chronic diseases, the papilloma virus may be in the state of NAP, without showing itself.However, in the case of weakening the body's protective functions, HPV can declare itself in the format of neoplasms, increase body temperature, general disease.
The so -called planar warts that appear on the feet in the larger friction area while walking are called more problems.Such warts are gray stamps similar to Kalus that are extremely painful while walking.Genital warts are also extremely unpleasant, the removal of which is quite problematic due to the thin skin in the area of their localization.
For HPV treatment, special antiviral medicines are used today, as well as immunotherapy, though, as we have already noticed, it is not possible to get rid of the viruses permanently acquired today.
Medical methods for removing warts
In modern dermatology, some successful techniques are used to remove neoplasms in the form of warts:
- Cryodestration.Burning a 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 at - 196 degrees Celsius.From the deficiencies of 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 at the site of a remote warts.
- Burning with a laser.Removal of growth layers is performed using local anesthesia with medical laser.This method is less traumatic, that is, cosmetic defects at the site of the warts, as a rule, do not arise.
- Electrocoagulation.The methodology is based on the effect on the affected area of the skin with a high frequency current.With the deep burning of the wart roots after healing the wound, a scar can occur.
- Surgical removal.It is rarely used, usually with a deep adjustment of the roots of growth.After removing the body of the wart, the surgeon imposes the stitches, after removing the visible scar.The innovative option is the so-called radio wave surgery, which involves removing a wart using high frequency radio waves (3.8-4.0 MHz).
Burning at home
You can delete a conventional home wart.For these purposes, cosmetic treatment compounds made on the basis of natural celandine or active alkali are used more often.
Before removing the wart to protect healthy skin, a thin layer of baby cream or oil jelly should be applied directly near the affected area.Now you can start burning directly.To do this, apply a small point of composition directly to the top of the wart and wait for its complete drying.You will need to repeat a similar procedure 1-2 times a day for a few days.In the process of such treatment, the wart will be exterminated, and then disappear completely, leaving behind a small pigmentation place, which will disappear after a while.
Using this method of removing warts and pronounced papillomas, you have to be extremely careful.The concentrated alkali involved in such compositions is extremely aggressive, therefore, with the inaccurate calculation of a single dose during a combustion session, the procedure may leave after a deep chemical burn, which will be further wet and healed for a long time.The appearance of wounds or scar with such errors is inevitable.
Cryotherapy at home and therapeutic pieces
You can try to get rid of the tops with the help of modern medicines, which are based on a special cooling mix.The temperature of such a fluid is 50-55 degrees Celsius.With strict observance of instructions, manufacturers guarantee to get rid of growth on average in 10-14 days.
However, such medicines may not guarantee you a therapeutic effect.Usually they show a good result only in the fight against single small warts.Special plaster or medical pencils, soaked in salicylic or lactic acids, have proven themselves well.Such a course of treatment can take you up to one and a half to two months.
No one will give guarantees
Despite the wide list of tools and methods intended for removing warts and papillomas caused by HPV, no single specialist will undertake a full cure and lack of relapse in the future.Unfortunately, the probability of the secondary appearance of such growth is quite high.It is all about the deep arrangement of viral structures on the skin as well as the wrong choice of therapeutic techniques.
To protect yourself as much as possible from relaxation, it is necessary to constantly maintain your immune system, get vitamin complexes, try to avoid hand shakes with strangers, monitor skin integrity (wear gloves or protective gloves in production), avoid tight shoes and appearance of corn.
Precaution
Once you have decided to remove the papilloma, be sure to consult a surgeon or a dermatologist.After all, it is possible that you can confuse and accept ordinary nevus or capillary hemangioma for a flat wart.And the burning of nevus can lead to sad consequences, until the appearance of cancer.
Consulting a specialist, distributing the necessary tests, and then removing growth in the clinic will allow you to avoid risks and maintaining your health.