Please turn on JavaScript and try again. Important Phone Numbers. Topic Contents Overview How can you care for yourself at home? When should you call for help? Where can you learn more? Top of the page. Overview A plantar wart is a harmless skin growth.
How can you care for yourself at home? Use salicylic acid or duct tape as your doctor directs. You put the medicine or the tape on a wart for a while and then file down the dead skin on the wart. You use the salicylic acid treatment for 2 to 3 months or the tape for 1 to 2 months. If your doctor prescribes medicine to put on warts, use it exactly as prescribed.
Call your doctor or nurse call line if you think you are having a problem with your medicine. Wear comfortable shoes and socks. Avoid high heels or shoes that put a lot of pressure on your foot. Pad the wart with doughnut-shaped felt or a moleskin patch. You can buy these at a drugstore. Put the pad around the plantar wart so that it relieves pressure on the wart.
Other types of HPV are more likely to cause warts on other areas of your skin or on mucous membranes. Each person's immune system responds differently to HPV. Not everyone who comes in contact with it develops warts. Even people in the same family react to the virus differently. The HPV strains that cause plantar warts aren't highly contagious. So the virus isn't easily transmitted by direct contact from one person to another.
But it thrives in warm, moist environments. Consequently, you may contract the virus by walking barefoot around swimming pools or locker rooms. If the virus spreads from the first site of infection, more warts may appear. When plantar warts cause pain, you may alter your normal posture or gait — perhaps without realizing it. Eventually, this change in how you stand, walk or run can cause muscle or joint discomfort.
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Plantar warts Plantar warts are caused by the same type of virus that causes warts on your hands and fingers.
You can apply a prescription-strength medication to your plantar warts at home and follow up with your provider to make sure the wart is entirely removed. Freezing a wart using cryotherapy is an effective wart removal option. Liquid nitrogen is applied to the plantar wart with a spray or cotton swab.
This destroys the tissue and causes a small blister to form over the spot. In a week or so, the dead skin will be gone. They are deeper and harder to reach with the chemical. Multiple treatments spaced two to four weeks apart may be needed to remove the entire wart. Immunotherapy uses medications or solutions to kickstart an immune reaction to fight off plantar warts.
There are many different types of wart removal surgery. Your provider will choose the best option for your case. Anyone can get plantar warts. You may not be able to prevent a recurrence entirely, but you can reduce your risk by following a few basic hygiene tips:. Children and teenagers frequent these public places more often and are less likely to practice proper foot hygiene. All information offered on The Iowa Clinic website is intended to serve as general educational information only.
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