Warts
What are warts?
Warts are caused by viruses and commonly grow on the hands, fingers, and feet, but can occur anywhere on the body. You can get a wart by touching someone else's wart or something a wart has touched, like a floor or towel. You are more likely to get a wart if you are a child or teenager, have cuts or scrapes, bite your nails or pick at hangnails, have a weak immune system.
There are many different types of warts, and they may have the following characteristics:
How do you get rid of warts?
Some warts may go away on their own, especially in children. If the wart is not painful, it may not need treatment. Treatment depends on the kind of wart and how many warts you have.
Treatment includes:
Warts are caused by viruses and commonly grow on the hands, fingers, and feet, but can occur anywhere on the body. You can get a wart by touching someone else's wart or something a wart has touched, like a floor or towel. You are more likely to get a wart if you are a child or teenager, have cuts or scrapes, bite your nails or pick at hangnails, have a weak immune system.
There are many different types of warts, and they may have the following characteristics:
- Small hard bump with a black dot in the center.
- Bump may be flesh colored, grayish brown, pink or light brown.
- May be rounded, flat, rough, or smooth.
- May be finger-like or thread-like.
- May be tender or painful.
- May grow in clusters.
How do you get rid of warts?
Some warts may go away on their own, especially in children. If the wart is not painful, it may not need treatment. Treatment depends on the kind of wart and how many warts you have.
Treatment includes:
- Cryotherapy freezes the warts to remove it.
- Topical medication to put on the wart to make it go away like VIRCIN which contains salicylic acid and an immune booster so your body helps kill the wart.
- Drugs to boost the immune system to help fight the virus causing the warts.