How to Trim Warts
Warts, which are small, rough growths that often affect the hands and feet, are a difficult thing to treat. It is actually viruses that cause warts, so just cutting off a wart will not cure it. Removing the top layer of a wart by trimming off the dead skin can make it easier for the medicine to penetrate and treat the infection. This is best done by with the help of a doctor. Over-the-counter medications like keratolytics can be used as they dissolve the dead layer safely. Meeting the doctor to receive effective treatment for warts is recommended.
The doctor can trim the top of a wart or totally remove using sterile equipment to reduce the chances of developing an infection. After this treatment, a follow-up medication to kill the virus is required. Doctors can trim a wart with a very tiny sterile blade, or they can numb the skin with a local anesthetic and cut deep enough to remove the wart. Removing the wart allows medication to treat the virus by penetrating more deeply into the skin.
Alternately, the doctor can destroy the top layer of the wart by applying liquid nitrogen, which is a much stronger application than those, can be bought over-the-counter. The doctor can also apply acids or products that cause cell death to the top of the wart. Another way to get rid of the wart is to inject substances that are toxic to the virus or that cause the body to “wake up" and recognize the infection and attack it. Creams that help the immune system recognize the wart and destroy also have benefit.
Even after trimming or removal, warts usually require follow-up treatment to destroy the virus. Getting rid of warts may take several office treatments plus applying creams or other treatments at home between visits. Warts on the hands and feet can take many sessions to clear. Trying to cure a wart through self-treatment may be ineffective and result in an increase in the size of the wart.
The reason why not to go for self-treatment is that there is a better, easier, less painful way to be cure. First, enough time has to should be given for this cure to work, which should be at least a month or two. Secondly, you need to block the wart, so that it gets no oxygen. This is the basic practice behind those "Compound W" wart-removing systems. Third, you need cover the wart by a tape constantly, day and night. Fourth, there is a slight acid in the compound, which helps to kill the wart and dissolve it, but it will come out as a whole. It may leave a hole, but that is only temporary.
Let us hope that the wart is in a location where it can be easily taped and covered, and not call for too much attention. A virus causes warts, so it is not a good idea to burn it. The burning resulted in the warts being turn into vapors that result in inhaling and the warts coming up in the nose.
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