Removing warts with liquid nitrogen is an effective and inexpensive technique that will help get rid of hated neoplasms on the skin in just a few procedures. This method has both supporters and opponents. Some patients say that the procedure is quite unpleasant and painful. It is worth finding out what are the advantages and disadvantages of burning warts with liquid nitrogen.
What are warts?
These are growths on the body, have a viral nature. Most often they are localized on the skin of the limbs, head, trunk, but can also form on the mucous membrane. The instability of the immune system is indicated by the appearance of warts. The risk of neoplasms increases several times if a person has lowered immunity and the influence of predisposing factors is present.
If warts appear on the body and they cause discomfort, then you need to consult a dermatologist. An experienced doctor can remove them or take preventative measures.
The risks
An alarm should be any changes on the skin. Since, the risk of converting cells to cancer is quite high.
Symptoms
In modern clinics, a number of effective methods are used to get rid of warts. At the initial stage, neoplasms can manifest without signs and not cause discomfort. However, over time, they cause a number of symptoms: there is a burning sensation, itching, the growth changes its shape, size, color, color becomes heterogeneous. Soon the wart will multiply and expand its localization. If she appeared in a prominent place, then it gives aesthetic discomfort.
Burning warts with liquid nitrogen
This method allows you to rid the body of growths in the shortest possible time and as painlessly as possible. Until recently, treatment with warts with liquid nitrogen was a priority in the issue of ridding a patient of skin tumors.
This method in cosmetology and medicine is called cryotherapy or cryodestruction. Cryotherapy is also used to combat papillomas and unwanted moles.
Using a hardware (using a special cryoprobe) or manual method, the wart is removed with nitrogen. In medical institutions, the manual method is more common.
Benefits of Removing Warts with Liquid Nitrogen
The main advantages include:
- availability;
- not long-term session;
- the procedure does not require special preparation;
- nitrogen acts exclusively on the area where the wart is present and does not affect healthy tissue;
- the procedure can be performed for young children and people who have sensitive skin;
- fast tissue regeneration;
- pain syndrome is minimal.
Another advantage of this method is that after burning the wart with liquid nitrogen, erosion, scars and scars are unlikely to occur on the treated area.
Is the procedure painful
Due to the individual characteristics of each patient, it is quite difficult to give an unambiguous answer whether it is painful to burn warts with liquid nitrogen. But in any case, if the patient decided on such a procedure, he should tune in to the fact that it implies some discomfort.
Duration of the procedure
In the event that the wart is large, located on sensitive areas of the skin, or the manipulation is carried out by small children, the area is anesthetized. It is made novocaine. In the event that the wart is small, anesthesia is not used, which reduces the time of the procedure. When using novocaine, it will be necessary to wait until it works. It takes about ten minutes.
The first stage consists of the fact that a small cotton swab is dipped by a doctor in a balloon where liquid nitrogen is located and touches the wart. This may take ten to thirty seconds. The cauterization time will depend on the number of warts, their size and location. A "cold bladder" is formed in which the doctor seizes the neoplasm. Then there is a pause of two minutes, after which the doctor examines the treated area to understand what the skin reaction is and how effective the procedure turned out. After the skin has thawed, the dermatologist determines how deeply the nitrogen has acted, whether repeated manipulation is necessary. If it was possible to achieve a result the first time, then the neoplasm disappears without a trace forever.
Consequences and photos of burning warts with liquid nitrogen
The question of the outcome of removal of tumors in this way is quite common. Most often, positive reviews about burning warts with liquid nitrogen. You should know that the place where the procedure was done will turn pink and become whitish. This happens because epidermal cells die, and such a skin reaction is normal and expected.
Many are outraged that a blister appears after removal of the wart. But this is also an absolutely normal reaction, which means that cryodestruction penetrated into the deeper layers of the skin. If the blister does not appear, this indicates that only the surface layers of the skin were affected during the procedure. And this, in turn, increases the risk that a relapse may occur.
Time will pass and the bubble will disappear. In its place, a healthy area will open without erosion and scarring. There are several recommendations regarding actions with a bubble that will help to avoid the unpleasant consequences of burning warts with liquid nitrogen:
- it is not recommended to seal it with a band-aid;
- wash the affected area with water very carefully;
- to protect against mechanical stress, it is recommended to bandage the treated area;
- it is best to take painkillers during the healing period.
It is forbidden to open the bubble yourself. Since it serves as a protective barrier. Under the bladder, new and healthy skin begins to grow. After a week, it will open on its own. After that, the released liquid is removed and a bandage is applied to the treated area.
Cutting off the skin of the bladder is not recommended. After all, a healthy area will be susceptible to mechanical damage from the environment. A week later, the new skin will become stronger, and part of the one that will no longer be needed will depart on its own.
In what cases does the bubble not form
It may not occur at the place where the skin was burned with nitrogen. If the exposure was too superficial, the bubble will not appear. This situation may occur if there is a small and single removal of the warts. When the treatment was too superficial, this could lead to repeated behavior of the procedure. And this will be done until it is possible to completely get rid of the neoplasms. Three weeks later, a second session is performed.
After such treatment, most often, there is a complete elimination of warts.
Contraindications
As with any medical procedure, burning warts with liquid nitrogen also has contraindications. The main ones include:
- there is an individual sensitivity to liquid nitrogen;
- disturbed heart rate and blood circulation;
- pregnancy and lactation;
- the presence of diseases caused by any infection (flu, cold and others);
- if any kind of irritation is present on the skin, a blistering rash, acne rashes;
- inflammatory processes occurring inside the body;
- increased body temperature, there are symptoms of intoxication.
Complications
Sometimes cauterization of warts with liquid nitrogen has undesirable consequences. In most cases, the fault is the incompetence of a specialist. Firstly, the risk of damage to other tissues increases, since it is not easy to control the depth of exposure to nitrogen. Secondly, in some cases, the resulting bubble dries for a long time. And severe edema may also form. Sometimes, nitrogen causes necrosis of neighboring tissues of extensive etiology. Before you make a procedure that does not exactly lead to complications, you need to make sure that the doctor is experienced enough, or even better, make a diagnosis first.
It will be good if, after carrying out the procedure for burning warts with liquid nitrogen, the patient quarantines, uses individual hygiene items and limits himself from bodily contact with other people. This is done because after removal of the neoplasms, when the wound has not yet completely healed, viral particles can spread. Aeto can cause other healthy people to become infected.
Unfortunately, burning warts with liquid nitrogen is not done in Buzuluk. And for the procedure will have to go to Orenburg.