To combat warts, they use a variety of means: medicines, folk recipes, removal using various devices. The cause of warts is the human papillomavirus (HPV). Everyone can get infected, and when creating favorable factors, the virus manifests itself on the skin. To get rid of skin growths and defeat the virus, it is necessary to treat warts, using medicines and alternative methods that affect the cause of the pathology.
Features of Warts
The infection assimilates with the skin cells, forcing them to divide intensely. You can get the virus in public places, through household items. The virus enters the body through wounds, abrasions.
Pathology is manifested by the formation on the skin of bizarre growths of a very different form. Usually it grows inside the skin and in breadth. Warts do not protrude above the skin surface - not more than a centimeter.
All formations that appear on the skin are divided into several types. Treatment for warts begins only after determining the type.
- Warts are common, youthful.
- Genital warts. Most often, this species appears on the genitals.
- Senile, caused by age-related changes.
- Plantar
According to statistics, more than half of the world's population is infected with HPV, but not all people have growths. This is due to the functioning of the immune system. If a person has one or more warts, then this indicates the need to immediately pass tests for HPV and begin treatment of warts.
Usually it does not require treatment of the disease, since the immune system itself is able to cope with the virus. But there are times when immediate medical attention is needed:
- the growth does not disappear for a long time;
- there are many warts, they are multiplying;
- education causes discomfort, pain.
In these situations, you need to contact a dermatologist. He will conduct research and prescribe treatment.
For the treatment of warts , medications, traditional medicine, and surgical removal methods can be prescribed. Each of them has its advantages and disadvantages.
Drug treatment
Antiviral and immunostimulating agents are used to treat warts at home. Before conducting surgical treatment of pathology, it is necessary to get rid of the virus by conducting antiviral therapy. Then measures are taken to strengthen the immune system. This is necessary so that the body itself begins to fight with pathology.
Strengthening the immune system
For the treatment of warts at home, a variety of drugs are used. Most often prescribed:
- "Isoprinosine" in tablets. The drug has an immunostimulating effect. The drug is taken only as prescribed by the doctor in a strict dosage. This drug is prescribed in case of weakened immunity. The drug is taken in courses for two weeks with breaks per month. The daily dosage for an adult is two tablets three times a day. After several receptions, patients notice improvements: formations begin to decrease and gradually completely disappear. You can take the drug for children over three years old in a dosage strictly prescribed by the doctor. The drug has contraindications. It can not be used for arrhythmias, gout, renal failure, individual intolerance to the components.
- Viferon. For the treatment of flat warts on the face and other species, this medication is considered one of the best. It stimulates the production of interferon protein, which fights the virus. The drug is taken twice a day in the dosage that the doctor picked up. Usually, treatment lasts about a month.
- "Pyrogenal". It is a solution for intramuscular administration. The tool is used to enhance immunity. Injections are included in complex therapy.
HPV solutions
These types of medicines are used with extreme caution. These solutions are used to cauterize warts. They can damage healthy skin. Despite this, with home treatment for warts, in some cases it is possible to get rid of the problem the first time.
Before cauterization of growths, healthy skin around them should be glued, and the warts themselves are steamed. Then the liquid is gently dripped onto the formation. These funds are not used to remove formations in children.
In this group, the most effective remedy is Ferezol. Around the growth, the skin is treated with a greasy cream, and then sealed.
Helps to remove Verrucacid warts. It acts more gently on healthy skin without causing burns. Fresh and small growths can be removed the first time, and chronic and large warts are displayed in several stages.
To soften the growths use "Collomac". Its composition is salicylic acid. Use this tool can be no longer than a week.
Helps to cauterize warts with well-known iodine. This tool has necrotic properties. Cauterizing the formation, it is necessary to ensure that iodine does not get on healthy skin.
Antiviral medicines
It is not enough to get rid of the formations on the skin, it is also necessary to treat the cause of the warts on the fingers and other parts of the body, namely, the effect on the virus from the inside. For protection, organisms use tablets, ointments, creams, solutions for external use, solutions for injection.
Good results in the treatment of warts gives the drug "Allokin Alpha." This is an antiviral drug of domestic production, which in 98% of cases helps to cope with HPV. Also, this remedy helps against the herpes virus, with influenza, hepatitis B. This remedy is available only as an injection, it is not in tablets.
Proven Methods
To treat warts on the face, oxolin ointment is used. It has an anti-infectious effect. With this tool, the growth is treated several times a day for a month, and sometimes longer. Ointment differs from other drugs in its low price and availability: it can be bought at any pharmacy. The disadvantage of this tool is the need for long-term treatment. During the use of the ointment, it should be noted that it leaves greasy marks on clothes.
Helps to cope with warts "Viruksin". It is an antiviral agent of plant origin. It contains a large number of extracts of medicinal plants that provide antiviral effects on the body and increase immune defense.
In tablets, the drug Groprinosin is available. It is prescribed in combination with ointments, gels.
You can use the gel "Panavir" from warts. It has an antiviral effect, removes warts. The substances contained in the cream penetrate deep into the layers of the skin and act on the root of the formation.
Celandine drops help well. They have a detrimental effect on the virus, killing them. This drug gently lubricates the growths. You can apply drops no longer than a week.
There are pills and ointment for warts "Acyclovir". This tool can be used for children.
In complex therapy, immunostimulants are used, such as Cycloferon, Interferon, Reaferon and others. All antiviral drugs stimulate the immune system.
Quick delete
According to reviews, the treatment of warts is carried out quickly only by a surgical method. For this, laser, nitrogen removal and other methods are used.
Laser removal of vulgar warts is carried out by the gradual evaporation of growth tissue. Then a small crust appears on the site of the wart. Over time, it disappears.
When removed by nitrogen, tissue freezes. After this method, a small bubble resembling a burn forms on the skin. Gradually it heals, the wart falls off, healthy skin remains.
As a surgical removal, the radio wave method is used. It produces a wave effect of high frequency, evaporating tissue. This method is somewhat similar to laser removal, but it is still rarely used.
Deprecated Methods
Some types of growths are removed by electrocoagulation. The surgeon makes anesthesia with novocaine, and then performs excision of the wart with a metal thread under current. This method is performed only in a clinic under local anesthesia. This technology is slightly outdated and rarely used, as is the method of removing warts with a scalpel.
Alternative methods of treatment
Treatment of warts with alternative methods is carried out in those cases when they only begin to appear and do not exceed the size of the match head. For cauterization of growths, fresh celandine juice is used. To treat the growth, in the warm season, grease the damaged surface with the juice of the plant. This procedure is carried out several times a day. After a few weeks, the warts disappear.
Garlic works well with warts. It is cut into thin plates and applied to the growth. A patch is applied on top. This procedure is carried out every day. After a month, the result is visible.
Other recipes
For the treatment of flat warts, a potato broth is used. To cook it, you need to remove the sprouts from the sprouted root crops. They will need a glass and pour the same amount of boiling water. Then the composition is put on a slow fire and boils until then, until it becomes liquid in half. The finished product is rubbed into the warts twice a day. This tool helps to get rid of youthful growths.
Acetic acid can be used to treat plantar warts at home, but scars may remain after it. The acid is applied dropwise to each growth with a pipette. When carrying out the procedure, it is important to avoid vinegar getting on a healthy area of the skin.
Gentle treatment
It is not safe to treat warts with drugs with a burning out property. To reduce the effect on healthy tissue, it is necessary to close healthy tissue during the treatment of growths. For this, an adhesive plaster is taken, a hole corresponding to the size of the wart is cut out on it. The patch is glued to the body so that a growth looks out through the resulting hole.
This method of protection will not allow to apply a burning product on healthy skin. Next, a mixture of garlic and vinegar is taken, to add weight to the gruel, add flour to it. A piece of this test is taken and applied to the wart. From above everything is covered with polyethylene and fixed with a bandage. The procedure is carried out every day, doing such compresses at night.
In the treatment of formations by other means and medicines, the skin should also be covered with a band-aid.
Castor Oil and Aloe
Castor oil helps to get rid of warts. This tool has many healing properties, it works well on the skin. To remove warts, oil should be washed twice a day in the affected areas of the skin.
Helps get rid of aloe warts. To prepare the product, take a teaspoon of soda, diluted in a glass of water. In the resulting solution, the swab is moistened and applied for twenty minutes to the wart. After a small piece is taken from the aloe leaf, it is fixed on the wart with a bandage. The procedure is carried out every day at bedtime for a week.
Prevention
In order to no longer cause warts, it is necessary to increase immunity. It will protect the body from the human papillomavirus.
If the pathology manifests itself in children, then you need to reconsider the diet of the child: it includes juices, fruits, vitamins. Be sure to exclude stressful situations. In the cold season, it is recommended to brew herbal teas with the addition of freshly frozen berries and honey. Be sure to teach the child to follow the rules of personal hygiene, especially in public places.
In those cases when warts again appear, it is necessary to immediately begin to increase immunity, and skin formations - to be cured.
Treatment of warts by any methods should be carried out only under the supervision of a doctor and only according to the scheme that the doctor determines. Many people ignore visiting a dermatologist and try to cure the growth on their own. After a series of failures, burns, it is possible to remove the cosmetic manifestation of the virus, but with the slightest decrease in immunity, HPV is again manifested by formations on the skin. Therefore, it is necessary to act on the wart not only from the outside, removing skin defects, but also to kill the virus inside the body.