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Wart
Articles
10
Important Facts about Warts & Genital Warts
- a comprehensive list with great external
links.
Warts
in the Family? - Here's why, and what you can do
to treat and prevent them.
Top
10 Wart Myths - guaranteed to surprise and inform
If
you have warts, your immune system may need a
boost - find out why and what to do about it.
If you have wart symptoms, you may have a depleted
immune system. Therefore, if you scratch or touch
your wart, especially with an area of broken skin,
or touch your wart and then scratch elsewhere, you
are likely to spread the infection.
If you have warts, and
someone you love touches your wart with a finger
with even a tiny cut, the infection is likely
to spread e.g. if you have been gardening without
gloves, washing eating utensils without gloves,
doing woodwork etc, and you touch a member of
your family with love, a squeeze of the hand goodbye
- whatever - and if they have a wart on that area
- you are likely to get HPV,
the warts
virus.
It is easily spread.
Warts usually appear as
small round raised flesh coloured bumps. They
may be smooth or 'punctured'. They can spread
in an infected area to result in clusters which
take on a cauliflower like appearance.
People get warts (excluding
genital
warts) on their face, body, hands and feet.
They can be multiple or single. They are usually
less than 0.3 cm in diameter, but can grow quite
large.
Can I get Rid of My Warts
Yes!
- Freezing (cryosurgery) - scarring, may grow
back
- burning (electrocautery) - scarring, may grow
back
- excision (surgery) - scarring, may grow back
- laser surgery - scarring may grow back
- natural oils - no scarring, won't grow back
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