Plantar warts are warts which are caused by a virus that invades the skin through a microscopic cut or abrasion on the sole of the foot, and then continues to grow inward under the skin. All warts are caused by specific viruses. Planter warts can be caught easily from anybody else who is carrying the HPV. Not everyone who has the HPV has warts. Only a few actually develop planter warts. You get this disease by coming in contact with the skin, towels, socks or shoes of anyone who already had this disease.
Planter warts are named because they always grow on the part of the feet called “plantars”. Planter warts grow in the bottoms of your big toes, the ball of your foot and soles. If you have any kind of scratch on your feet, then the virus has a wide open door to enter the body. Children get planter warts more than adults.
It feels as if something is sticking or rubbing against your feet if you have plantar warts. Other signs of planter warts include itchy, very tender feet that makes putting any pressure on them aggravating. Eventually, the skin on the bottom of your feet will get rough and crusty with little black dots. The pressure of your foot flattens them until they become covered by a callus that sometimes has tiny black dots on the surface. If you continue to walk around and not get the warts treated, they will harden under pressure; the harder they get, the worse they are going to feel.
The good news about planter warts is that they are treatable. There are various forms of treatment that are available for plantar warts, including home remedies, the traditional prescription medicine, the surgical method, the natural plant medicine and so on.
One of the best home remedies for plantar warts involves simply practicing with cleanliness. This means taking a bath often, or at the least just washing your feet often, making sure to scrub and clean as best as you can. You may then want to put a wart removing cream on the plantar wart, in hopes that this will be strong enough to remove it. Depending on how long it has been there, this will generally tell you whether or not you will be able to remove it this way.
Another most commonly used home remedy for plantar warts involves salicylic acid and duct tape. All you have to do here is to buy the salicylic acid at your local drugstore, then put it directly on top of the wart right after you get out of the bathtub or shower, and cover it with duct tape. Once the acid dries, you will see that it will form a hard skin over the wart which is good because it does not rub off like creams often will. Then the next day you want to soak your foot and file down as much as you can off the head of the wart. Usually after a matter of only days the warts will begin to die. You can generally tell when this is happening because the wart will form a dark red to black dot.
Traditionally, warts are classically treated with topical acid. Freezing the tissue w liquid nitrogen is also used. This causes a blister, as the blister heals the wart will hopefully come off at that time. However, these wart treatments are not always successful. “In fact, warts may recur after treatment because of activation of latent virus present in healthy skin adjacent to the lesion. Most patients with warts require multiple treatments over a course of several weeks or months. If substantial improvements have not occurred after 3 physician-administered treatments or if complete clearance has not occurred after 6 treatments, a different treatment modality should be used. All medicines used to treat HPV disease are applied topically on cutaneous surfaces. Local skin reactions and pain are common adverse effects.” As noted on WebMd by Dr Peter A Gearhart, Staff Physician, Department of Obstetrics at the Pennsylvania Hospital.
Treatment can often be done in a doctor or podiatrist office. You usually have to take a test to make sure you have plantar warts and not something else, and then the warts are surgically removed. Firstly, the podiatrist would paint a freezing numbing agent on your feet and swiftly set to work. It should be all done before the anesthesia wears off. After that, you may have to use crutches for a few weeks. However, once surgical intervention or chemical acids are used one can expect a scar in that area.
There are a number of treatments for plantar warts but you may need to try out a few different things before you find one that actually works for you. If nothing seems to be working then you may have to opt for something more serious. At this point you may try CURED's all natural wart treatment -- ?cPath=22" " WartCure ; this all natural topical treatment exhibits a rather broad spectrum of action of against HPV, the virus causing warts, meaning that it kills HPV and when used as directed and provides a curative effect against warts. To learn more about the beauty of this treatment, please go to CURED's website .
