What is a wart on the heel? How to treat this education at home and in the hospital? You will receive answers to these questions from the materials in this article.
Definition
A wart on the heel is a predominantly benign neoplasm in the form of a papilla or nodule. Very often it has a viral origin. This disease is caused by human papillomatosis. The transmission of this pathogen usually occurs through contact with the patient, as well as through objects of his everyday life.
Causes of occurrence
A wart on the heel, the photo of which is presented in this article, can occur for various reasons. Predisposing to its occurrence are factors such as mental trauma, vegetoneurosis, decreased immunological activity, acrocyanosis and increased sweating of the sole. But, as mentioned above, the main reason for the occurrence of such a neoplasm is a non-cellular infectious agent - the human papillomavirus.
As you know, a huge number of different microorganisms live on the skin of people. Many of them, including viruses, are the causative agents of a large number of diseases.
Human skin has its own protection system. It is provided by intraepithelial macrophages, keratinocytes and epidermal T-lymphocytes. With the normal functioning of the immune system, as well as in the absence of microtraumas on the skin, the papilloma virus does not show its activity. Otherwise, a wart on the heel immediately makes itself felt.
Appearance
What does a wart on the heel look like? Plantar neoplasms most often occur in places of pressure shoes. Sweating people are especially susceptible to them.
Such warts are very keratinized, dense and have a gray-dirty color. Also, they are characterized by severe soreness, which prevents walking. Sometimes plantar formations cause temporary disability of a person.
Wart on the heel: photo and treatment
To get rid of plantar neoplasms is quite real. Most often, people with such a problem turn to traditional medicine.
According to experts, the treatment of calcaneal warts may include not only medications that are aimed directly at combating the virus. You can remove such neoplasms by surgery. The most common of these is cauterization with liquid nitrogen. We will dwell on it in more detail.
Heel Wart: Liquid Nitrogen Treatment
What is a method for treating plantar warts such as cryodestruction? Experts say that this method allows you to remove a benign growth using liquid nitrogen.
During the procedure, tissues affected by the human papillomavirus are cauterized with the help of low temperatures (from -180 to - 196 degrees). This effect contributes to the freezing and subsequent death of warts.
It should be especially noted that liquid nitrogen not only destroys, but also exfoliates the neoplasm tissue. After that, healthy skin epithelial cells recover very quickly.
When is it prescribed?
Cryodestruction can only be recommended by an experienced dermatologist. This usually occurs in the following situations:
- If condyloma formed in a place where it can be injured or damaged.
- If the wart is localized in a conspicuous place and causes significant discomfort.
- If the growth on the skin has been damaged.
- If there are unpleasant sensations (burning or itching) at the site of growth of the neoplasm.
- If the shape, color and size of the wart has changed.
- If the number of genital warts has increased dramatically.
Procedure
Cauterization of plantar warts occurs with a special apparatus - a cryodestructor or with the direct use of liquid nitrogen.
In the latter case, a cotton swab is thoroughly impregnated with a chemical substance, and then applied to damaged tissue. In this form, it is left for about 180 seconds.
With the hardware removal of the growth, the applicator tip is pressed against the affected tissue, and then it is cooled to –196 degrees. In this position, the device remains on the skin for about 120 seconds.
In the event that it is necessary to process a large area, or the duration and strength of the impact the previous time were insufficient, a second cryodestruction session is prescribed.
By the way, an additional procedure is very often used in the treatment of outgrowths. This is due to the fact that the skin on the heels is rather rough, and the drug must penetrate into the deepest layers of the epidermis in order to freeze and kill the neoplasm.
After a kind of operation, the doctor can recommend vitamin and immunomodulating drugs to the patient.
Effects
After exposure to the wart at low temperatures, edema forms in its place, and then an epidermal bladder. It contains hemorrhagic or serous fluid. Such a site should not be wetted for several days. As a rule, the bubble disappears after one week. It is replaced by a hard crust, which eventually disappears.
After another two weeks, only an inconspicuous pink spot remains on the skin of the heel. Until it disappears, you should protect yourself from exposure to sunlight.
If the described recommendations are not followed, then the consequence of cryodestruction may be the appearance of age spots in the affected area.
Contraindications to cauterization with liquid nitrogen
Now you know how a wart on the heel is removed in a hospital. Home treatment, as well as the use of other methods should be used only if cryodestruction is contraindicated for you. As a rule, such an intervention is prohibited when:
- angiospasm;
- pregnancy
- hypertension
- rash, irritation, and other injuries near the wart;
- epileptic conditions, convulsions;
- idiosyncrasy of nitrogen;
- acute chronic and infectious diseases, as well as exacerbations of any other diseases.
Benefits of the procedure
Cryodestruction does not contribute to scarring at the treatment site. Also, during the implementation of such treatment, any possibility of the virus entering the bloodstream is excluded.
You can even burn warts with liquid nitrogen even in children (from four years old).
The processes of wound healing and recovery of the patient are painless.
Folk removal methods
How is a wart on the heel removed at home? Celandine treatment is the most popular and effective way that our mothers and grandmothers used.
How is such a procedure carried out? A fresh section of the stem of the celandine is pressed against the wart and kept in this state for several minutes. After this, the plant is discarded, and the yellowish juice is carefully distributed over the entire surface of the neoplasm, without touching healthy areas of the skin.
Rinse off the drug is not necessary. After keeping the juice on the leg for some time, you can simply wipe it with a napkin.
Such procedures must be carried out twice a day for a week. Gradually, the plantar wart will disappear, leaving no trace.