Any wart treatment ideas?
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at
5:04 pm
I have warts on both of my hands. They dont hurt but they bother me and lower my selfesteem. Can anyone tell me a treatment or remedy to get rid of them? I dont want to get them frozen off or burnt off. and i already know of the duct tape treatment but it looks weird. please help?
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I have heard that mincing fresh garlic and putting a piece of garlic on the wart with a bandaid can help. I haven’t tried it, but I have a friend that says it works… GOOD LUCK!
My best friend had one in the finger on the nail border. I am a doctor and it was in a place that could not get burned of resected so we tried every med that there was but didn’t work. Later on he opted to try the duct tape treatment which I as a doctor was very skeptical about it but incredibly it worked. Why not give it a shot.
Good luck.
Why not get them frozen by a doctor? It is not painful, and they don’t come back. I know a friend who tried just about everything including Compound W, the duct tape thing, a faith healer with a piece of raw hide and knots. It either didn’t work or they came back. The only permanent solution he got was having them frozen by a doctor.
Flat. Plantar. Common??? While most people carry the virus that causes these and other types of warts, you can treat your warts and stop the spread. According to research or other evidence, the following self-care steps may be helpful:
http://www.solgar.co.uk/healthnotes/healthnotes.asp?org=boots&ContentID=1289005
Keith Woolley
Treatment is aimed at destruction of the warty growths rather than elimination of the virus.
Subclinical infection probably is lifelong, and there is no cure.
Most partners are likely to be subclinically infected with HPV, even if they do not have exophytic lesions.
Use of condoms may reduce transmission of the virus to uninfected partners.
Standard therapies for GWs can remove most warts; however, there is no ideal treatment for all warts and all patients.
Caustics/acids – 80-90% bichloracetic acid (BCA) or trichloroacetic acid (TCA)
Podophyllin resin – 10-25% or 0.5% podofilox solution or gel (Condylox)
Imiquimod 5% cream (Aldara) – 3 times per week, up to 4 months (A recent article reported that the optimal duration of use for women’s genital warts may be 1 month.)
Interferon, intramuscular or intralesional injection – 3 million units, 3 times per week for 3 weeks
HPV vaccines
A variety of prophylactic and therapeutic HPV vaccine trials are ongoing and may be of potential future benefit.
Notably, a vaccine against HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 (Gardasil, Merck) has recently been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for approval as the first vaccine against HPV infection. Another vaccine against HPV types 16 and 18 (GlaxoSmithKline) will probably be available in 2006.
Surgical Care:
Cryosurgery is very effective for treating multiple, small, genital warts.
Warts on the shaft of the penis and vulva respond very well to cryotherapy.
Cryotherapy of the rectum is painful and less successful.
Cryotherapy is effective and safe for the mother and fetus when used during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.
Electrosurgery is quite effective for a limited number of lesions on the shaft of the penis.
Large, unresponsive lesions around the rectum or vulva can be treated with scissor excision of the bulk of the mass followed by electrocautery of the remaining tissue down to the skin surface.
Loop electrocautery excisional procedure (LEEP) after colposcopic biopsy has become a standard procedure for cervical lesions particularly for the ones with neoplastic features.
Removal of a very large mass of warts is a painful procedure, best performed under either general or spinal anesthesia.
Carbon dioxide laser is an efficient method of treating primary and recurrent anogenital warts because of its precision and rapid healing without scarring.
Primary cure rates as high as 91% have been reported.
Carbon dioxide laser is the treatment of choice for pregnant women with extensive lesions or lesions that do not respond to TCA.
Pulsed-dye laser and other new lasers have been used by some with various successful rates.
Surgery is indicated particularly for large GWs or malignant lesions.
For recurrent carcinoma, Mohs surgery is a good choice.