WARTS

What are warts? 

Warts also known as papilloma or verrucae.

Warts are very common, with most people being infected at some point in their live.

Warts are a type of skin infection; small, noncancerous growths appear when your skin is infected with one of the many viruses of the human papillomavirus (HPV) family. 

While they can grow anywhere you have skin, you're more likely to get one on your hands or feet. Although warts generally aren’t dangerous, they can be uncomfortable, potentially embarrassing, and contagious.

What are the causes of warts?

It is caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). The virus triggers extra cell growth, which makes the outer layer of skin thick and hard in that spot. HPV, enters a cut or break in the skin and causes an infection.

Types of warts

1. Common Warts: 

They're small, from the size of a pinhead to a pea, and feel like rough, hard bumps. Usually grow on the backs of your fingers and toes and on the knees. But they can appear elsewhere. 

They can have a rough, thick, grainy appearance and a rounded top. They may appear cauliflower-like. Common warts are often greyer than the surrounding skin. 

Signs and symptoms of common warts can include:

• small bumps that can be hard, rough, and grainy

• flesh-coloured bumps with small black spots of clotted blood vessels

• ability to spread to other areas through direct contact

2. Filiform warts: 

These fast-growing warts.

They grow around your mouth or nose and sometimes on your neck or under your chin. They are contagious and can also spread to other parts of your body. 

They are typically painless unless they occur in a sensitive area like a fold in your skin.

Signs and symptoms of filiform warts can include:

• small growth that extends off of the skin

• flesh-coloured flap

• quick growth

• usually not painful

3. Plantar Warts: 

It appears on the soles of the feet. These warts look like calluses with tiny black dots in the centre. They are often painful and form in clusters.

    Caused by HPV type 1. Signs and symptoms can include:

• deep, tender warts that grow inward due to standing or walking

• pain with direct pressure

• can feel like you are stepping on pebbles

• yellowish skin that appears callus-like

• can have black dots

      Caused by HPV type 2. Signs and symptoms can include:

• small surface-level warts

• a mosaic pattern of multiple warts appearing in clusters

• less painful than HPV-type 1 caused plantar warts

4. Flat warts:

It is also known as juvenile warts, usually grow on the face, thighs, or arms. They are often caused by HPV types 3, 10, and 28. 

They tend to grow in large numbers -- often 20 to 100 at a time. Flat warts tend to appear on children's faces, men's beard areas, and women's legs.

It can be spread through direct contact.

Signs and symptoms of flat warts can include:

• small flat, round, or oval marks on the skin

• flesh-coloured marks

• usually not painful

5. Periungual and subungual: 

These warts form under or around fingernails and toenails.

6. Genital Warts:

They may look like small, scattered, skin-coloured bumps or like a cluster of bumps similar to a little bit of cauliflower on your genitals. These warts are a type of sexually transmitted infection.

How does it spread?

Warts are contagious. The virus can spread from person to person or from different parts of the body through:

• Direct contact with a wart.

• Injury/cut

• Touching something contaminated with the virus, such as towels, doorknobs and shower floors.

• Sexual intercourse (genital warts)

• Nail biting and cuticle picking

• Shaving

How can homoeopathy treat warts?

Most common warts go away without treatment, but it can take a year or two and new ones may develop nearby. But in few cases, it doesn’t go away with time instead there is a tendency for the formation of more new warts. To remove this tendency of developing warts is what homoeopathic medicines comes into play. 

We here, at Brahma Madhurya Homoeopathy clinic, aims to removes warts permanently along with building the immunity strong so that the HPV infection may not infect the human body & finally finishes the warts developing tendency. 

Here, doctor may suggest the best suitable homoeopathic remedy by analysing your case, based on the location of your warts, your symptoms and your preferences. 

These customised homoeopathic medicines help you to remove warts & warts having tendency permanently.