Wart

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What is Wart ?

A disease caused by viruses is called Warts. Warts can grow on your skin, on your genitals, inside of your mouth and your rectal area. Warts can be passed from one person to another person. Warts can be passed by using towels and other objects of person who has warts. It is a contagious disease and can be passed to another person during vaginal or anal sex. This disease can grow inside the vagina in women. Some warts will go away and some won’t go away on their own. It may take long time to go away. Treatment may decrease the chance that the warts will be spread to other areas.

Types of warts

There are differents types of Wart. Some of them are as follows :-

• Common Warts
• Plantar warts
• Genital warts
• Flat warts
• Subungual and periungual warts

Causes of Wart

Warts are caused by a virus infection, the body will build up resistance over a period of time and eventually the body will cause the warts to disappear. This may take months or sometimes years but is the natural way the body deals with warts. If they are allowed to disappear in this way it is less likely that a person will get any further ones as one will then be immune to that virus.

Symptoms of Wart

The symptoms of warts are as follows :-

• Small, hard, flat or raised skin lesion or lump.
• Abnormally dark or light skin surrounding the lesion.
• Numerous small, smooth, flat (pinhead sized) lesions on forehead, cheeks, arms, or legs.
• Rough, round, or oval lesions on soles of feet; flat to slightly raised; painful to pressure.
• Rough growths around or under fingernails or toenails.

Treatment and cure of Wart

1. Salicylic acid and duct taping
2. chemicals such as formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, and podophyllin can be used to remove warts.
3. Cryotherapy and cantharidin.
4. Minor surgery.
5. Laser surgery.

Home Remedies for treat wart

1. Apply vitamin E oil to the surrounding skin, then crush a clove of raw garlic, place it on the wart, and cover it with an adhesive bandage. The raw garlic causes a blister to form, and the wart generally falls off within a week. Apply vitamin E oil to the area to help it heal.
2. Chop one raw onion in a dish, cover with salt and leave overnight. Apply the resulting juice to the warts twice a day, until they disappear.
3. 3. Cut fresh pineapple into thin slices. Apply to warts several times a day until they are gone.
4. 4. Apply the milky juice exuding from the stems of figs and leaves.