Warts are noncancerous, small growth of extra cells that makes the outer layer of the skin thick and hard. Warts are contagious and are thus passed by direct with the skin of the infected person. Warts are spread by picking at the warts and then touching another area of your body skin. The spread of warts also occurs through cloth or razor that has come in contact with a wart.

Types of Acne: 

• Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
• Low immunity
• Eczema or other chronic skin conditions
• Biting nails or picking at hangnails

Different types of warts

Warts can be classified as below:

Common warts

These warts are flesh coloured and are mostly seen on fingers, skin around the nails and feet and on the back of the hands.

Plantar Warts

The soles of your feet is where these types of warts appear.

Flat Warts

These warts are mostly found women’s legs, on men’s beard area and on the face of children. They appear in numbers ranging from 20 to 100 at a time.

Filiform Warts

These warts grow around mouth, eyes and nose face. They appear like tiny brushes and are spiky.

Genital Warts

One gets genital warts through having sex with someone who has them. The appearance of genital warts is like a cauliflower growing on the genital area.

Treating warts

Your body fights warts and it may take as long as 2 years or even more for the warts to disappear on their own. However many types of warts need to be treated and a variety of treatments are available.

Burning and Cutting

This treatment technique is performed after numbing the affected area. Mostly two methods are employed by the Doctors.

1. Curettage: This treatment involves scrapping off of the warts with a small spoon shaped tool or knife. The warts are excised, cut or sliced with a sharp blade.
2. Electrosurgery:This is a procedure wherein the electric charge is passed through the tip of a needle to burn the warts. The Laser is also used many a times.
3. Creams:For stubborn warts, peeling creams are used. These peeling creams irritate your skin. This irritation stimulates the immune system to attack the warts. Anticancer medicines are also used to arrest the development of extra skin cells. This effectively halts the progression of warts.
4. Injections:Medicines are injected into the wart to get rid of it.
5. Cryosurgery:Liquid nitrogen is also used to treat the warts.
6. Cantharidin:‘Cantharidin’ liquid which is used to cover the wart. This application leads to the formation of a blister underneath the wart. This blister thus lifts the wart off the skin and in about 7 days, the blister dries and wart falls off.

Preventing the spread of warts:

The basic principle of preventing warts is to avoid getting in physical touch with it.

• Picking the warts or scratching them should be strictly avoided.
• Hands should be thoroughly washed with soap after treating the warts.
• The foot warts are to be kept dry.
• Waterproof footwear should be worn in changing rooms of gymnasium, swimming pools and public showers.