Jeff Foster :
Plantars wart treatment can be time consuming and you should seek the advice of your podiatrist or primary care physician to see which treatment option is best for you.
Plantar warts are benign growths that appear on the sole, ball of your foot or heel. Excessive pressure from walking or standing for long periods of time causes them to grow deeper into the skin. These warts should not be ignored and you should work with your physician to determine the best plantars wart treatment for you.
Plantar warts are spongy and rough, and are normally brown or gray in color. The wart under the skin is normally two to three times as big as the part of the wart that has surfaced through the skin. The depth of the wart is the reason for the extensive pain associated with plantar warts. If the wart is large enough you can actually experience a lump on the bottom of your foot when you are standing.
Plantar wart treatment consists of over the counter medications, laser treatments, cryotherapy and surgical removal.
Over the counter medications contain an acid chemical that will destroy the skin cells and could damage healthy tissue that is surrounding the wart. These must be used with extreme caution. Once confirmed that you indeed have a plantar wart seeking the advice of your podiatrist and what treatment options he or she recommends is the best start.
In the beginning your podiatrist typically might treat the plantar wart with a mild acid also known as salicylic acid, cantharidin acid or dichloracetic acid. These treatments normally take multiple applications over the course of weeks to a months and the acid treatment will allow the viral cells to disintegrate and allow healthy cells to replace them.
Laser treatment can also be used to treat plantar warts. Your podiatrist will use laser treatment in their office or at an outpatient surgery center using local anesthesia. If you decided to use the laser treatment you will want to discuss the scarring with your podiatrist. Laser treatments have been very successful.
Cryotherapy is when the podiatrist can freeze the plantar wart with sodium nitride which destroys the virus and causes the wart to turn black and fall off normally within a few days to a week.
Cryotherapy has not been very effective as the solution does not penetrate far enough into the wart to destroy the virus.
Surgical removal usually is not recommended to treat plantar warts because it can cause painful scarring. Debridement is performed using anesthesia and can be used with acid to destroy the virus and prevent the warts from re-growing. This treatment would be as a last resort.
There are many options for plantar wart treatment.
Seek the advice of your podiatrist and see which treatment is best for you!
Plantars wart treatment can be time consuming and you should seek the advice of your podiatrist or primary care physician to see which treatment option is best for you.
Plantar warts are benign growths that appear on the sole, ball of your foot or heel. Excessive pressure from walking or standing for long periods of time causes them to grow deeper into the skin. These warts should not be ignored and you should work with your physician to determine the best plantars wart treatment for you.
Plantar warts are spongy and rough, and are normally brown or gray in color. The wart under the skin is normally two to three times as big as the part of the wart that has surfaced through the skin. The depth of the wart is the reason for the extensive pain associated with plantar warts. If the wart is large enough you can actually experience a lump on the bottom of your foot when you are standing.
Plantar wart treatment consists of over the counter medications, laser treatments, cryotherapy and surgical removal.
Over the counter medications contain an acid chemical that will destroy the skin cells and could damage healthy tissue that is surrounding the wart. These must be used with extreme caution. Once confirmed that you indeed have a plantar wart seeking the advice of your podiatrist and what treatment options he or she recommends is the best start.
In the beginning your podiatrist typically might treat the plantar wart with a mild acid also known as salicylic acid, cantharidin acid or dichloracetic acid. These treatments normally take multiple applications over the course of weeks to a months and the acid treatment will allow the viral cells to disintegrate and allow healthy cells to replace them.
Laser treatment can also be used to treat plantar warts. Your podiatrist will use laser treatment in their office or at an outpatient surgery center using local anesthesia. If you decided to use the laser treatment you will want to discuss the scarring with your podiatrist. Laser treatments have been very successful.
Cryotherapy is when the podiatrist can freeze the plantar wart with sodium nitride which destroys the virus and causes the wart to turn black and fall off normally within a few days to a week.
Cryotherapy has not been very effective as the solution does not penetrate far enough into the wart to destroy the virus.
Surgical removal usually is not recommended to treat plantar warts because it can cause painful scarring. Debridement is performed using anesthesia and can be used with acid to destroy the virus and prevent the warts from re-growing. This treatment would be as a last resort.
There are many options for plantar wart treatment.
Seek the advice of your podiatrist and see which treatment is best for you!
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The fact that there are so many treatments for warts tells you this; this is no effective treatment for warts, otherwise all of us would be doing the same thing.
Warts in general are outgrowths, they grow upward away from the skin. The one exception is plantar warts, because you are walking on them you push them deeper into the skin. This is compounded by the fact that the skin on the bottom of the foot tends to be thicker than skin elsewhere.
This is what makes treating plantar warts so difficult.
Thanks for your comment.
I don’t agree with your comment, that there is no effective treatment for warts, because there are so many treatments on offer.
Individuals react to substances differently, according to their predispositions, that includes superficial treatments for warts. There is no one size fits all, it is necessary to try whatever, until you come up with what suits your particular wart. From a homeopathic point of view, treating warts superficially, is not treating the underlying virus, it is necessary to treat holistically. Nevertheless, having said that, I have seen many warts disappear, with tea tree oil, and not return.