What if I have a WART?

Hi you all! Thanks for coming back and joining us on our “What’s if I have a …” series. This article is going to be on WARTS. I know all knew that one little boy that use to get warts all over his fingers, (at least I did). Well did you know you can get them on the toes too! There are no safe haven ladies. There are two types of warts the plantar (foot) warts and palmer (hand) warts. The plantar warts are the ones we’re going to be discussing today those are the ones most commonly found on the bottom of your foot.

What is a wart you ask? Well I shall tell you my dear. It is a noncancerous skin growth caused by a viral infection in the top layer of the skin. HPV, human papillomavirus has many strains and the strain that causes planter and palmer warts are no the same that cause genital warts.
 They can cause irritation or slight pain depending on their location. Warts begin about the size of a pencil eraser some can grow larger.
The joy that comes with plantar warts is the possibility of the warts growing in clusters, called mosaic warts. There are also seed warts. Warts with black dots, the black dots are blood vessels that have grown inside the wart. The seed warts are no more or less dangerous than a regular wart.
How do you get warts, or better yet how do you avoid getting one? The most common way for a person to get a wart is touching something that a person with a wart had. For example, a person with a plantar wart uses a shower without wearing shower shoes and another person then uses it and develops a wart. The best defense is really just keeping your immune system up, and even with the best immune you can still get a wart.

There are a lot of little home remedies to get rid of a wart.

• Duct tape is one home remedy. Put a small strip over the wart and leave it on for six days. Then, remove the tape, soak the wart in water, and then gently debride it with a pumice stone or emery board. Repeat the process many times until the wart is gone. This may take a couple of months. Over-the-counter wart treatments work about 50% of the time. These wart removers usually work by peeling the wart.
• Doctor's treatments include freezing the wart off with liquid nitrogen, removing the wart with laser or surgery, or applying or injecting medicines to strengthen the immune system so it can clear your body of the virus.
The best defense is to stay healthy and most warts will go away on there own, but it will take a lot of time possibly a year or two.


You guys hopefully are a little more informed and aware. If you have had a stubborn wart let us know how you fixed it or if you didn’t let us know still. We want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly of all foot issues so we can better inform.  Be sure to check back our new addition to our “What’s if l have…” series.