Here at Great Neck Family Foot Care, our team is well versed in dealing with issues such as plantar warts. Our podiatrist Dr. Hochstein can perform a full evaluation on your foot to help determine which intervention method will yield the best results. Depending on the severity of your plantar wart, treatment methods can include:. The HPV vaccine Gardasil, which aims to prevent most types of cancer associated with HPV infection, also may prevent genital warts and possibly common warts.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all adolescents and teens ages 9 through 14 receive two injections of HPV vaccine at least six months apart.
Teens and young adults who begin the vaccine series later ages 15 through 26 should receive three doses of the vaccine. Rarely, stubborn warts require minor surgery to cut away the tissue or laser surgery to remove the wart. If you are an adult who never had problems with warts but they suddenly begin to develop, see your doctor and ask to be screened for an immune system disorder.
But if numerous warts begin to appear, the immune system may be malfunctioning, in which case I recommend a prompt evaluation. Your surgeon will use an electrical current to burn and destroy external genital warts, and then scrape away the dried tissue. Research has found the surgery to be highly effective. One study found that 94 percent of people who had six weekly sessions of electrodessication were clear of genital warts.
Healing time takes four to six weeks. Laser surgery is also a specialist procedure. Your surgeon uses a laser light to burn away wart tissue. You may require local or general anesthesia depending on the size and number of warts.
Recovery should take a few weeks. Most HPV infections that cause genital warts will go away on their own, taking anywhere from a few months to two years. But even if your genital warts disappear without treatment, you may still have the virus. When left untreated, genital warts can grow very large and in big clusters. They are also more likely to return.
You should wait to have sex at least two weeks after your warts have cleared. You should also talk to your sexual partners about your HPV status before engaging in sexual activity.
Wearing a condom will reduce your risk of transmitting HPV. This includes dental dams and male or female condoms. Although genital warts may clear on their own, HPV may still be in your body. Treatment will help get rid of warts and reduce future outbreaks, though you may have to repeat treatments to clear warts completely. It may take a few months to treat the warts, and you could go years without an outbreak.
Make sure to wear a condom every time you have sex , as HPV can spread without warts present. Genital warts are soft growths on the genitals caused by certain strains of human papillomavirus HPV.
Learn about symptoms, treatment, and more. The human papillomavirus HPV is a common infection affecting 1 in 4 U. At this time, there isn't a cure for HPV, though its symptoms can…. It makes sense then, that children and teens are susceptible to warts. Having a weakened immune system this can be due to a variety of conditions, from illnesses to immune-suppressing drugs. Treatment Salicylic acid has been used for a long time to treat warts.
Over the counter products exist, but you may been a prescription-strength wart medication. This medicine should be applied regularly. The chemical liquid nitrogen will cause a blister to form around the wart, and the dead tissue will eventually fall off.
Note: it may take a few cryotherapy sessions to fully get rid of the warts. This causes a foreign body reaction and may stimulate your body to fight off the wart. Laser therapy can help to burn off tiny blood vessels until the wart falls off. Close Font Resize. Keyboard navigation. Readable Font.
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