By A. L. Jones
If you have a plantar wart, you might be wondering how to remove a plantar wart. Unfortunately, it's not that easy to do. Before you start trying to cut it off or making plans to speak with your doctor about a painful surgery, you should understand exactly what to expect with a plantar wart; including where it comes from, what it means and whether or not you really need to worry about its presence.
Plantar warts are not typically anything you need to worry about. They are not cancerous warts. They do not spread to other parts of your body and they certainly will not infect anyone else in your family if you accidentally touch their feet with yours. The good news regarding a plantar is that they are very unlikely to spread through person to person contact; so unlikely, in fact, that it is virtually impossible.
Plantars are caused by a form of the HPV virus. There are more than 100 different versions of this virus and the one that causes plantar warts is most often found in warm, wet places. You are more likely to encounter this virus and contract this virus if you walk barefoot in public pool areas, gyms, showers, and bathrooms. However, walking barefoot alone will not cause you to contract a plantar wart from the HPV virus. What will cause you to contract this virus is walking around without shoes and with a cut, scrape, cracked skin, or other open sore on your foot. This is how the virus enters your blood stream.
If someone in your own home suffers from a plantar wart, it is possible you could catch it using the same shower. You can make sure you don't by wearing shoes in the shower when you have any sores or blisters. Once you realize you have a plantar wart, however, you will more than likely begin wondering how to remove a plantar wart.
The process regarding how to remove a plantar wart is fairly complex. You see, it's just not that simple. You cannot simply remove a plantar wart from your body. These warts are found only on your feet and since they are usually on the soles of your feet, they typically extend inward. They do not appear to look like normal warts, which extend outward from the skin - think about the warts so commonly seen on the noses of witches when they are depicted. For this reason, it's not easy to remove a plantar wart. However, it can be done with the help of your medical professional. While there are some treatments you can use at home to remove them, it's recommended you call your doctor.
Unless your immune system is weakened from a disease such as HIV, AIDs, or diabetes, your doctor will likely tell you not to worry about removing your plantar. As it happens, your immune system will naturally begin to fight the virus that causes the wart, causing it to disappear over time. While it does take a few years, they aren't typically painful or even noticeable, which makes it more manageable to deal with. However, if you experience pain from your plantar wart, your doctor might recommend a few different methods of removal.
One way to remove a plantar wart is by freezing it off with liquid nitrogen. This is something your doctor will need to do. Your doctor will use liquid nitrogen to freeze the wart. This causes a significant number of blisters to form, causing a lot of pain in your foot. Your doctor will bandage it to prevent you from damaging the blister. Over the course of a week or so, the wart will die and eventually fall right off.
Other methods of removal include surgery. Laser surgery is used to kill the vessels that provide the wart access to the virus that causes it to grow. As the vessels surrounding your wart begin to die, your wart will fall off. This is a painful procedure. The other type of surgery recommended is a much more minor surgery. This involves using a local anesthetic to numb the area around the wart. Your doctor then uses an electric needle to cut the wart right out of your foot. This is painful. It will take a week or so to heal and the process is not one doctors prefer to use.
The reason doctors do not prefer this method of plantar removal is because it leaves scars. However, most people who are experiencing pain from a plantar wart simply do not care if they are left with a scar on the bottom of their foot. The idea of being over the pain in less than a week is more appealing than the idea of walking around for years in pain without a scar.
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