What is HPV?

Posted by Walter on January 28th, 2010


HPV is Human papilloma virus, this virus is responsible for the spread of common warts, a small, often hard, abnormal elevation on the surface of the skin that are mostly found on hands, around fingers, feet, and around the genital areas.

There are a lot of types of HPV. When infected by some type of this virus, it can cause small, painless, rough-surfaced warts that can be usually found on the fingers and around the face. There are some as well that grows really painful and itchy that may appear in the soles of the feet, which is called as plantar warts. Other types of HPV can cause infection on the skin covering the sex organs and opening of the anus, known as genital warts.

HPV can also be a threat to women because infection through this virus which causes warts as well as cervical cancer to develop. There are several numbers of viruses that can cause genital warts linking them to develop into cervical cancer, less often, cell cancer of the penis, vagina, anus and vulva (external genital area in women). Other types of HPV are also responsible for mouth and throat cancers.

Spreading this virus can happen when there is a direct skin contact from a person who is infected. Usually by wearing or using the things that the infected person has like, clothes, towel, slippers, hat, etc. As for genital warts, sexual intercourse with an infected person can be the cause of acquiring this disease.

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Look into the Less Common Types of Warts

Posted by Walter on January 27th, 2010

Wart is one type of skin disease that is usually spread through direct contact to a wart infected person’s skin. It commonly appears as hard, often small, abnormal elevation on the surface of the infected skin. Wart is usually caused by virus called HPV or (human papilloma virus). Warts can basically infect on any parts of the body, but it is commonly seen more on fingers, feet, and around or near genital areas.

Warts have two different types, the common and plantar warts. Plantar warts are corn like dark pinpoints that appear on the sole of the foot. Plantar warts may require a lot of patience because of the repeated treatment in getting rid of it, while common warts looks like rough surface and well-defined borders. They appear on fingernails and on the backs of the hands.

Here are the other types of warts are less common:

Mosaic warts- a group of many small, closely set plantar warts appearing on the feet.

Genital warts – can be found near the genitals, also inside the vagina.

Cervical warts- appears on the cervix, a threat because it can develop into cervical cancer.

Filiform warts- are long, narrow growths that usually appear on the eyelids, face, neck or lips.

Flat warts- often appears as smooth, flat-topped, yellow-brown papules on the face and along scratch marks and are more common to infect children compared to the  adults.

Pedunculated warts – can be found on the head and neck, scalp and beard, it has a cauliflower shape.

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Ten Steps to Treat Foot Warts

Posted by Walter on January 27th, 2010


Warts are caused by HPV (Human Papillomavirus), causing skin infection that is so itchy and painful. HPV also causes other kinds of warts like hand and feet warts. Getting rid of this infection is not easy especially that it keeps on coming back after whenever you try to get it off your skin, requiring you a lot of patience if you want to have them cured.

It is a big problem if it starts to develop on your foot, it will cause you an itchy sensation and worst, it is painful too. There are OTC drugs and medicine that are available to use in treating warts or you might want to try common remedies such as duct tape and other ingredients that you can find at home.

Here are ten simple steps to cure foot warts:

  1. Wash all equipment and rinse with alcohol or antiseptic.
  2. Put two tbsp. mild household detergent in half-gallon of warm water. Soak foot for ten minutes.
  3. Cut out a square of 40% salicylic acid plaster, remove backing to expose self-stick surface.
  4. Apply sticky side directly on wart.
  5. Keep plaster on wart, keep dry for two days.
  6. Remove adhesive bandage and plaster.
  7. Brush wart with old toothbrush, soap and water for one minute twice a day for two days.
  8. Expose wart to air.
  9. Talk to a podiatrist about carbon dioxide laser unit, a focused laser light beam will vaporize your wart.
  10. Consult your doctor for further suggested medication if the warts still exist on your skin.

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Wart Removal through Duct Tape: Some Points to Remember

Posted by Walter on January 25th, 2010


Warts are not dangerous and often time’s people want to have them taken off the skin for dermatological purposes. There are also some cases that warts spread rapidly, some of them become painful, and others are so stubborn that it won’t gonad stays on the skin for a long period of time.

A lot of proven ways, remedies, and medication that are used to get rid of warts. Usually those medications can be either OTC (over the counter) medications or home remedies, these are the usual ways on how cure warts, but home remedy is the most common.

A familiar home remedy to cure warts is through duct tape. Beside from freezing the wart which is painless, but often leaves large blisters, getting rid of warts using duct tape method is more likely the next step that your specialist can suggest if you want to do it at home. It became popular because it is effective and you can always find it at home plus it is affordable.

Using duct tape to cure warts:

  1. Covering the wart with duct tape for six days.
  2. Next, remove the duct tape, soak the war, to remove the dead skin of wart use an emery board or pumice stone.
  3. Reapply the duct tape after twenty-four hours and repeat the steps 1 and 2.

As known to be ample for kids to use, there are colored duct tapes available if in case they are a bit shy to walk around with it.

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6 Ways to Remove Foot Warts

Posted by Walter on January 22nd, 2010


Warts are type of skin disease that is spread through direct contact to a wart infected skin. Commonly appear as a small, often hard, abnormal elevation on the surface of the skin. This is usually caused by virus called HPV or (human papilloma virus). This can basically appear on any parts of the body, but it appears more on fingers, feet, and near genital areas.

There are a lot of proven ways to cure warts. Usually identified in two different ways, the home remedy and the OTC (over-the-counter) medicines that are prescribed by dermatologists and skin care experts. Both remedies are trusted and proven to cure warts.

For cases of warts appearing on your foot, there are ways on how to get rid of it. Here are 6 ways on how to remove foot warts.

  1. Laser therapy- with the help of high-energy beam of light, warts are burned in this method.
  2. Cryosurgery- using very low temperatures, warts are being freeze, killing the wart cell.
  3. Electro surgery- this process of removing warts uses electricity, destroying the wart cell with the help of a needle that is heated using electric current.
  4. Salicylic acid- an over-the-counter medication to cure warts, by irritating the wart, it can trigger the immune system to naturally react and gets rid of the top layer of the skin causing the wart to fall off.
  5. Duct Tape- commonly used because it is affordable and availability at home.
  6. Household ingredients- mostly found at home as well, vinegar, garlic, and other ingredients.

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Wart Treatment Prescriptions

Posted by Walter on January 21st, 2010


Having some warts on your skin can be very depressing since it is considered contiguous and can affect one’s personal appearance. We do not want others to know that we have this kind of condition so as much as possible we want to get rid of these, right? There are different wart treatment removal methods as well as prescriptions that are usually advice by doctors to persons having warts.

There are top five medications that are usually prescribed to affected individuals. First is the Imiquimod which belongs under the category of creams. You need to apply it directly to affected area as it strengthen the immunity of the body and destroys the virus in it.

Second, we have the Bleomycin and are available in the form of injections. It is very expensive and can be scary due to its direct effect on our body due to its route of application and has several side effects that can be harmful in the future.

Third, is having the salicylic acid that destroys the warts since it is a very strong chemical. However, it is not often prescribed now in the society due to its drawbacks.

Fourth, is the use of podophyllum paint that has a combination of isopropyl alcohol, podophyllum resin and aloes in the process. It is the least expensive medication that physicians can prescribe.

Lastly, is the use of cantharidin which is taken from beetles but is always best to use in combination of the podophyllum.

Warts can be removed mechanically or through the use of these medications prescribed by your doctors. You may have the liberty to choose the right treatment for your warts.

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A Look into Folk Medicine Cures for Warts

Posted by Walter on January 20th, 2010

Folk medicine throughout the history of man has many cures for warts that may be outright ridiculous in all aspects. These cures have been practiced by people in the past but please if you’re curious enough do not feed your curiosity by practicing these methods for it has no medical basis and are just good for a laugh. There are many popular cures for warts that are attributed to folk medicine. Warts have been a problem for man may be since the beginning of its existence so this may be partly the reason why this has been a great part of folk medicine. One of the most popular is the myth that toads cause warts. They may have developed this idea because toads have a warty appearance. A lot of strange and bizarre cure for warts are given credit to folk medicine and one of this is the blacksmith’s water cure. They believe that the water used by the blacksmith in cooling his hot iron is a remedy for warts for it is magical in nature and that also goes for iron as well. This was practiced by many different cultures for magic was very popular in those times. Another odd and partly magical in nature which they believe was also a cure for warts are the leaf rub. This folk medicine is done by gathering seven different types of leaves and rubbing it twice on the wart. After rubbing it on the wart, you must then bury the leaves where no one can find them. This type of cure is said to be sympathetic magic. There are no specific types of leaves to be collected therefore this method has practically no chance of working. A cat on the other hand also plays a role in curing warts. This particular method in folk medicine is known as grave cats. At midnight, you must take a dead cat to the graveyard. The next step is to immediately throw the dead cat at the direction upon hearing a sound. The person throwing the dead cat should say, “Cat follow the devil and warts follow the cat”. These are just a few of so many folk medicine cures for warts.

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Proven Wart Removal Tips

Posted by Walter on January 19th, 2010

Having warts in the different parts of your body can be very depressing especially for self-conscious individuals. Hygiene as well as appearance is very important in improving self confidence and achieving self-esteem.  There are different methods out in the market on how to get rid of warts. However some of these methods are not effective and expensive.

Proven wart removal tips include the duct-tape method, nail polish technique and some kitchen remedies. Freezing or Cryotheraphy do also work for some but can be expensive unlike other home remedies. Duct-tape method and using the nail polish method usually uses the suffocation method in order to get rid of warts in certain parts of the body. However, freezing method is not that effective for it can actually leave some scar in the affected area and can also result to some possible infection for the appearance of an open wound. Germs can easily penetrate inside your body.

Using creams, lotions and other chemical products advertised in the television is not always helpful and effective in removing your warts. Acid components of these warts can burn and stink your warts but cannot actually remove it totally. They usually get rid only of the top layer of the warts and do not destroy the contagious part of the tumor.

Removal of warts is not done overnight. You need to be patient enough to continue the treatment for at least two to three weeks. Visible results in one week are not possible especially if home remedies techniques are used.

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Foot Warts: Everything You Need to Know

Posted by Walter on January 18th, 2010

Warts is a type of skin infection that is so itchy and worst, it’s painful. Caused by HPV (Human Papillomavirus). HPV also causes other kinds of warts including hand and feet warts. Getting rid of this infection is not easy especially that sometimes there are some cases that it keeps on coming back after whenever you try to have them off your skin through medication. Curing warts would really require you a lot of patience.

How much more if these infection starts to develop on your foot, you’ll surely get hurt in scratching it off your skin as well as bearing the pain it brings. There are a lot of proven medications and remedy in getting rid of warts, duct tape is one common and good way as well as freezing the wart that can help the pain to subside.

People sometimes tend to make a mistake by thinking foot warts are just calluses, skin tags, corns or some sort of skin rashes. Having warts on your feet, can give you a number of things you can identify to be able to tell their difference. One common symptom of this is the feeling of a small lump under your foot. Making you feel like you have a small stone in your shoe as you walk.

It is very important to know these things as well as avoiding to get infected by warts. Warts are a bit contagious type of skin disease and you have this by just simply walking barefoot over infected surface. Common surfaces include public showers, swimming pools, or dirty ground.

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Homeopathic Wart Remedies

Posted by Walter on January 16th, 2010


Warts are type of disease in the skin. This appears like a small rough lump small, often hard, abnormal elevation on the skin, usually caused by certain viruses like papomavirus and occurring typically on the hands or feet. Warts are itchy and painful; this takes a lot of patience for the person who is suffering of warts because it is not easy to get rid of it.

Children and young adults, people that are most commonly affected. Warts are categorized as mildly contagious and last for anywhere between a few weeks to quite a few years. Warts are also known or called as innocent growths as they do not really cause any harm for the people who have this, and are most often removed by people for cosmetic reasons.

There are a lot of proven remedies in removing this infection on the skin. There are some that kind is found at home, while most prefer to have the remedies that are advised and prescribed by the experts.

In the other hand, homeopathy is the method of treating disease by drugs, given in minute doses that would produce in healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease. It came up as a way of medication for warts, a process that can be helpful in away to get of warts.

Warts are contagious type of abnormal growths of dead skin cells and it does remains on the outer layer of skin. There is not yet any treatment other than surgical removal in conventional system of medicine. However, homeopathy has excellent remedies.

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