Warts are formations on the skin and mucous membranes of a benign type, which occur due to the activation of the human papillomavirus virus.
They do not look aesthetically pleasing and are often caused by complexes. Someone wants to get rid of them, but does not know how.
Should we remove the build?
It depends on the size of the papillomas, their nature and age. But more often than not, the answer is undoubtedly positive, because warts are contagious and can be transmitted to others. Self-infection may also be autoinoculation.
First of all, the contagion of the neoplasms reveals itself not only through direct contact with them, but also when using common household items, personal hygiene articles, or by making contact withplaces where an infected person was in contact. For example, a bus handrail.
Secondly, localization of the wart can be in a place most likely to be injured - the neck, legs, amperes, groin. These areas are often rubbed with clothes, crushed and touched. Then it is fraught with malignancy, bleeding, overgrowth.
Thirdly, formations can increase in size and number, this creates aesthetic problems. This phenomenon can be called a wart.
Important! Not always, but may degrade wart to melanoma, an irreversible aggressive skin cancer.
Key understandings about the dangers of surgery
Treatment and early treatment of warts is the best option. It will save you a lot of time, effort and money. While 70% of warts can disappear spontaneously after 2 years of existence, they can return to the same success and, moreover, to new places.
Fear of fear when contacting a surgeon is associated with fear of the operation, its complications, relapse and the possible pain during the procedure. They are completely unfounded, since modern methods provide very good pain relief, and many do not require anesthesia.
There is still a widespread opinion that their contact will increase with extra contact with a wart with a surgeon's knife. This is the deepest misconception - it is the surgical intervention that will prevent the spread of the virus and prevent the wart from growing. Fortunately, there are many methods to do this.
Strange can call those patients who are not afraid to use traditional home methods and refuse qualified assistance. Medical experience and qualifications are crucial, of course, but a good surgeon is not uncommon.
And one more help - don't rely on cosmetologists and run them with warts. They do not have adequate medical education.
Modern Methods
There are newer or older removal methods. Each has its own pros and cons. In addition, the effect depends on the size of the wart, its location and depth of growth.
All methods can be grouped into 3 groups: hardware, surgical and chemical. Alternative treatment is more associated with the method of physical (mechanical) impact.
When you make contact, the doctor may suggest what he thinks is the best option, but the patient himself makes the last choice.
Preliminary consultation is also necessary because not all of the methods you have chosen may be suitable, since there are contraindications and limitations.
Laser Treatment
The laser mode can be given universal. Among all the methods, it is at the forefront today. Using a laser, you can remove warts in the most difficult, sensitive and painful places. It is also advantageous in that it does not give scars. The beam is the safest and least traumatic.
The efficiency is so high that one procedure is enough. The essence of the thermal effect on the wart is burning with temperature. The cure is quick, without scars and complications.
More advantages of laser:
- the patient does not feel pain;
- no anesthesia required;
- full removal;
- fast - takes 1–2 minutes. Reversal is only possible in 20% of cases.
It leaves a fossa that heals in a fortnight. The skin may temporarily lighten, disappearing after 3 weeks.
Warning with liquid nitrogen
Cryodestruction consists of freezing a wart by a low temperature method using liquid nitrogen. Duration - 30 seconds. Freezing results in the death of the growing tissue. When exposed to freezing, the papilloma thickens and turns white. After a minute, she turns red and swollen.
A bubble of gray liquid will appear at home. In a week, it will break through on its own and form a crust. The crust heals and falls off in a fortnight.
Speck remains pink, gradually its color will become even with the skin. The formation will disappear within 2 weeks and a pink spray appears at the removed site, which gradually disappears.
Son:
- no pain, no scarring and no anesthesia required;
- no infection or bleeding.
The only drawback is that there is no way to control the depth of impact.
On the soles of the feet, the impact lasts about 1 minute. The procedure can be repeated individually up to 5 times. Less - long wound healing.
Electrocoagulation
Electro-heating for warts uses high-frequency currents. It concentrates in a loop that cuts off the wart. The moxibustion temperature is about 80 degrees.
No bleeding due to simultaneous coagulation of blood vessels. Local anesthesia is required. Another great thing of the method is that it prevents the virus from spreading further. In addition, the method is quite budgetary and efficient.
The surrounding tissue should be covered and the skin disinfected. There is also a crust stage. It disappears within a week. After this, a scar remains almost imperceptible, transparent, but more often than not a light spot. There is no relapse!
Applying radio wave therapy
The method is considered to be less efficient than electric current. Moxibustion is performed with special devices; a doctor will help you choose the right one. This is a radio wave generator, their high frequency electric waves do not touch the wart, but they do cut it off completely.
At the heart of the activity is a liquid in the cells of the wart, which expands with radio waves, swells and explodes the wart. The work is done with a special tip that looks like a ballpoint pen.
Scars and infections do not occur. The only drawback is the pain of the procedure, because of this, the erection is pre-lubricated with anesthetic. Healthy cells are not damaged. Moxibustion lasts about 20 minutes.
Advice! At the crust stage, it cannot be wetted and peeled! She disappears from sight in a week.
Surgical Excision
Surgical removal with a scalpel is a traditional, classic method. Not often used now. The method is traumatic and gives relapses, scars.
There is a risk of damage to nearby tissues, the possibility of infection. But it cannot be restored if the wart is large. Under local anesthesia with a special spoon after the incision, the wart is scraped out. The seams are cosmetic, they are removed after a week. The scar stays about 3 mm in size, it shrinks over time.
Chemical moxibustion
Activates formation with acid or alkali. After a certain time, wash off. There are usually at least 6 procedures to achieve the effect. There is a burning sensation or a tingling sensation during. The wart dries and falls off.
Disadvantages:
- there is a risk that the virus will spread further
- and the infection is not ruled out; Healthy tissue is often damaged
- ; Scars can be made
- , the cure takes about 10 days.
The method is used only if other methods are impossible.
Advantages and disadvantages of different methods, which one is best
Any transfer method has its advantages and disadvantages, there are no ideal options. The most popular methods today are: laser therapy, cryotherapy, electro-heating, radio waves, surgical scalpel - in descending order of frequency of use. The cost of the first 3 modes is actually in the same price range.
The laser is the first guide: there are no accessible places, it is safe, fast and painless. Cross-construction is considered to be the second most effective, but along with it there is no possibility of controlling the depth of exposure, because relapses are possible.
And one more conclusion - the laser can only remove 1 small gel in 1 session.
Cryotherapy is applicable to papillomatosis, where up to 40 growths can be removed in 1 single procedure. But here the doctor’s experience is extremely important for quality.How does location and type of growth influence technique choice?
There are 4 types of warts:
- vulgar- in the form of small nodes, they often grow on the fingers and toes, back of hands;
- flat- typical for teenagers, they are in the form of protruding spots; these include the plantar (thorns);
- threadlike (acrochords)- thin elastic outbreaks on the leg, visible on the face (eyelids, lips) and neck; genital warts
- - often localized to the mucous membrane of the genitals; like cauliflower in appearance.
These 4 types are of viral origin and are associated with true warts.
But there are also senile keratomas, which lead to functional disorders in the skin. They do not require treatment, only observation. Cryotherapy can be used if desired.
The doctor recommends a method of transfer, but in the end the patient chooses. How the choice of method depends on the type of wart: small formations can be safely removed with a radio wave “knife”, or liquid nitrogen.
Radio Knifeis applicable on the face and neck, legs and palms, groin. With papillomas on the eyelids, it is not used. They can use lasers or liquid nitrogen.
Freezingis used on the arms and legs (on the entity), papillomas on the neck. The cryo method can be given universal. It is safe.
Lasers- removes any warts on any part of the body, including under the nail.
Surgical methodis used for large growth of the oral mucosa.
Electrocoagulationis recommended for flat and vulgar warts. It can even be applied to the face. With large formations, the effect is negligible. Also, the electric knife is not used for plantar warts, as they usually have deep roots and are very dense.
Important! It is advisable to remove plantar growth in one hospital.
The chemical method gives good results on plantar lesions, flat and pointed. Physical methods are ineffective in comparison.
What method of removing formations do doctors recommend?
The client, of course, chooses according to his abilities. But it has to be guided by the opinion of the doctor to make the right decision. Specialists prefer a complex (combined) treatment of warts, where the initial place involves removal.
In addition, treatment will include oral administration of drugs with antiviral activity. Although the HPV (human papillomavirus) virus is not 100% cured and in many ways its activation depends on the state of immunity, it can be slowed down, “put to sleep”, and remission can be prolonged.
In addition to antiviral drugs, immunomodulators are used for this purpose. This is, first of all, a group of interferons.
Doctors treat folk remedies with little diligence, since doctors do not perform the treatment and will be unsafe. It is fraught with damage to the surrounding tissues, infection, inflammation. Children under the age of 5 should not remove warts in any way.