When a wart begins to grow, HPV stimulates the skin to attract and grow its own blood supply and nerves, which makes the wart very hearty and less likely to go away on its own. Most warts will persist for one to two years if they are left untreated. Eventually, the body will recognize the virus and fight it off, causing the wart to disappear. While they remain, however, warts can spread very easily when people pick at them or when they are on the hands, feet or face.
The HPV vaccine Gardasil, which aims to prevent most types of cancer associated with HPV infection, also may prevent genital warts and possibly common warts. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all adolescents and teens ages 9 through 14 receive two injections of HPV vaccine at least six months apart. Cover the wart with duct tape after you put the medicine on the wart and the medicine has dried.
Make sure you don't get any of this medicine near the eyes or the mouth. The medicine will turn the top of the wart into dead skin and it will all turn white.
Once or twice a week, remove the dead wart material by rubbing the dead skin off with a pumice stone or washcloth. The dead wart will be softer and easier to remove if you soak the area first in warm water for 10 minutes. Warts are contagious but mainly to the child that has the warts.
They aren't very contagious to other people. If your child chews or sucks on the wart, cover the area with duct tape and change it as often as necessary.
Encourage your child to give up this habit, because chewing on the warts can cause warts on the lips and or the face. If that happens, your child needs a trip to a dermatologist.
Warts can look ugly but we pretty much all have them at some point in our lives. People who have compromised immune systems are also more at risk for getting infected with the HPV that causes plantar warts. The virus that causes this condition survives best in warm and moist environments. If you walk barefoot in a locker room or public shower or around a swimming pool, you risk getting infected. However, not everyone is vulnerable to the virus. Some people who get exposed to it never become infected, while others do.
You can even see these differences in people from the same family! The wart can appear on any part of the foot, but it often shows up on the areas where you bear weight. It appears as a fleshy, grainy, and rough raised bump.
Frequently, a plantar wart causes pain at the site, and you may feel like you have something stuck in your shoe. When the growth is on a weight-bearing part of the foot, the wart may grow inward, and a rough callus forms over the top of it. A plantar wart can also appear as a small lesion that breaks up the normal ridges and lines in your skin.
You may see small black dots at the center of the lesions or bumps. These spots are frequently referred to as wart seeds. You may have either a single wart or a cluster of them growing together. Sometimes, plantar warts go away on their own. This can take several months and up to two years.
Additionally, the warts or area around them may become infected, leading to serious issues. Here at Great Neck Family Foot Care, our team is well versed in dealing with issues such as plantar warts. Our podiatrist Dr. Hochstein can perform a full evaluation on your foot to help determine which intervention method will yield the best results.
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