What are the Treatments for a Plantar Wart
Plantar warts are viral benign epithelial tumors. Well, if that sounded too technical here’s what you need to know about plantar warts. Usually they don’t require a treatment at all and resolve on their own in a year or so. In some cases these may spread and develop into clusters and cause more pain and a treatment must be done. Smaller warts take a short time to vanish as compared to large warts. Home remedies can help in removing the warts. If it doesn’t work, a medical treatment will be required. Some treatments for plantar warts are:
Home Remedies:
- Wash the wart area of your body and soak it in water for fifteen minutes. Apply duct tape to the affected area after drying it and leave it on for a week. After a week pull off the duct tape and leave the wart area bare overnight. The wart should be gone in the morning. If it doesn’t work, you should go for a medical treatment.
- Cover the skin around the wart with a thin layer of petroleum jelly and apply apple cider vinegar to the exposed wart area. Soak a cotton pad in the vinegar and secure it to the wart with a bandage. Keep it on for a few days. After a week, remove the bandage and the wart will be gone. If it is still there, you can repeat the procedure and keep the bandage on for a little longer.
Some of the popular medical treatments are:
Cryotherapy
Your doctor can apply liquid nitrogen to the wart area with a spray to freeze the wart and destroy it. It causes blisters around the wart area that resolve on their own in a week or so, taking the wart with them. The chemical burns off the wart and makes it wither and fall off eventually. It is a little painful method but it sure is effective.
Cantharidin
Wash the wart area and dry it with a piece of soft cloth. Apply a mixture of cantharidin and salicylic acid to the wart and cover it with an adhesive bandage to secure the canthadrin against the wart. The doctor can then remove the dead wart after about a week.
Immunotherapy
Your doctor can use your immune system to remove tough warts for you. He can inject the wart with an antigen to stimulate your immune system. The antigen causes an immune reaction that may fight off the warts. The warts become dry, wither out and fall off the skin. This treatment may cause pain but the results are worth it.
Pulse dye laser treatment
Laser treatment burns the closed blood vessels and the infected issue eventually dies and the wart falls off. This method can leave scars on the wart area.
Plantar warts can be really painful and it might become difficult to remove them as they grow. Try to take care of your wart before it matures and save yourself from going through the trouble of getting painful treatments at a later stage.
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