Facts About Warts
Warts look like raised round or oval shaped growths on the skin surface and are caused by the human papilloma virus. Learning more about warts can help you diagnose and treat warts.
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Warts look like raised round or oval shaped growths on the skin surface and are caused by the human papilloma virus. Warts are generally harmless and benign (non-cancerous) growths on the skin where the HPV virus usually penetrates the body though any broken skin surface or lesion. Although common warts can appear anywhere in the body but they are usually located on the face, arms and legs. Common warts are painless, save and except those that grow under the nails or appear at places where constant pressure or friction is present.
There are several forms of warts that affect the human body that are discussed below.
Common warts are rough dome shaped greyish skin growths that are found mostly on a hand of a person. However, they may appear on other parts of the body as well.
Plantar warts grow on feet, particularly the soles, so any form of walking with the plantar wart is likely to be painful. They usually appear as hard heavy patches of skin with dark specks.
Flat warts are flat topped, pinkish growths that appear mostly on the legs, arms and the face. Flat warts are no bigger than ordinary pencil erasers.
Filiform warts in appearance are flesh colored and they have projections much like a finger. They are commonly seen in the beard area, on the nose and the mouth region.
Subungual and Periungual warts look like rough irregular growths that appear under or around toenalis or fingernails, affecting the nail growth.
Genital warts appear around the genital area of both sexes and is one kind of sexually transmitted disease (STD). Genital warts are highly contagious.
Warts are easily identified as bumps or growths on the skin that can be seen with the naked eye, and so understanding the symptoms are not particularly difficult. However, they may sometimes be confused with corns or callouses and so the following points may be checked in advance.
Warts will appear as small, raised or flat bumps on the skin and are painless.
Warts may appear as numerous pinhead-sized lesions on the arms, legs, cheeks and forehead of the affected peron. These are also painless.
There will be some amount of change in skin coloring around warts.
Rough circular lesions or bumps on the soles of feet are indications of plantar warts. These are pressure sensitive and walking with Plantar wart is indeed painful.
Spike-like growth under toenails or fingernails is a sure indication of Periungual wart.
As most of the warts disappear as mysteriously as they appeared first, no specific treatment has been mooted or the warts (excepting genital warts). But even then, if neglected, they can assume bigger proportions, and so it is always better to treat them. From a cosmetic point of view, the following remedial meaures are fairly popular.
Treatment at home with of non-prescription salycylic acid or pressure bandaging.
Cryotherapy or freezing the warts with liquid nitrogen.
Electrosurgery, curettage or laser surgery to remove the warts.
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| By Jaid Chambers Published: 7/13/2007 |
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