Plantar or chicken warts belong to the class of good-quality new growths. They have virus origin and often meet not only at children, but also at adults. We will also talk about the reasons of emergence and ways of treatment of this illness in this article.
Description of a new growth
The chicken wart (papilloma) on foot is often observed in the form of an ellipse or a circle. She acts over a sole surface on 1-2 cm and at first has a light pink or light brown color. Over time the new growth gets a grayish-yellow shade, becomes rough and firm.
Sometimes on a surface of warts small dark brown or black dots are formed. It occurs because capillaries on the surface of epidermis are filled with blood clots. In certain cases in the middle of new growths the krateropodobny hollow can be observed. If a virus very active, then it can cause at once several new growths which create the mosaic drawing on foot.
Seldom or never the immunity wins against a chicken wart, and it disappears completely. But often such new growths are exposed to mechanical loadings and damages and as a result over time begin to bring discomfort to the patient. It can be the pain both cutting, and pressing which arises because of friction of a sore point about footwear.
Whether you know? The center for prevention and control of diseases of the USA established that the immune system of the person is capable to cope independently with warts within 2 years (in 90% of cases).
Sometimes most it is difficult to diagnose the exact nature of education. Very often plantar wart is confused with a usual callosity. When walking in inconvenient footwear the wart is rubbed and becomes similar to a callosity. Only the dermatologist will be able to confirm or reject any diagnosis. He can appoint the ultrasonography procedures, Dermoscopy or the PCR-analysis.
Symptoms and reasons of emergence
The plantar wart causes some symptoms and if you such found in yourself, then it is necessary to address the dermatologist for purpose of a certain course of treatment. Main symptoms of a chicken wart:
- itch in the place of a new growth;
- at mechanical damage of a wart, for example, when cutting, it begins to bleed strongly;
- hurts when walking or when pressing.
The good-quality new growth not always causes pain or discomfort. In certain cases it remains only an unclear convex spot. But over time pain can come therefore you should not delay with treatment.
All existing types of warts arise on a human body because of the weak immune system which cannot overcome VPP (virus of papilloma of the person) which got to an organism. HPV has more than 100 versions. The list of these versions also includes a plantar wart. For convenience of HPV classify under various numbers. So, plantar warts of the person got numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. And for example, flat new growths have number 3, 10, 28 and 49.
HPV is in most cases transmitted in the contact and household way. He with ease lives and survives in the warm and damp environment. It is possible to catch HPV in baths, gyms, saunas, etc. If you use personal belongings of hygiene of the infected person, then also risk to catch this virus. According to statistical data, it is considered to be that more than 50% of the population of Earth are infected with this illness. But the immunity of most of people without any problem copes with a virus and does not allow it to pass into an active phase of activity. And here with weak immunity such new growths are capable to cause chicken warts in people.
Important! HPV perishes in dry and hot places therefore you should not be afraid of infection on beaches.
The virus can become more active when the immunity weakens (at severe stresses, infectious diseases, bad food, food poisoning, etc.). If to maintain the immunity in the normal state, then the risk of activation of HPV decreases at least by 3-4 times. But sometimes there are provocative factors which are capable to push a virus to an active phase. These are such factors:
- diabetes, atherosclerosis, varicosity of the lower extremities, etc.;
- flat-footedness, arthritises of joints of foot, osteoarthrosis;
- injury of skin of feet or legs;
- inconvenient footwear which promotes friction or pressure upon foot skin;
- the increased perspiration or dryness of epidermis of legs.
Any of above-mentioned factors are capable to push HPV to fast activation.
Treatment
At detection of the first symptoms of a plantar wart it is the best of all to see a doctor at once. Today the situation with oncology received sharp and mass character therefore it is better not to push luck.
Medicine
At appearance of a plantar wart in the child it is not necessary to be engaged in independent treatment. Though treatment by vinegar or a celandine is considered in more sparing way, but the level of modern medicine anyway will allow to treat more effectively pathology.
Removal at the expert
The modern medicine provides not one way of high-quality and painless removal of new growths at the child and the adult. One of ways is electrothermic coagulation. It allows to get rid of warts by their heating by high-frequency electric current. Only experts of the highest categories are capable to carry out such procedures. But this method has also shortcomings. First, with its help it is impossible to remove old, large and very deep new growths on a sole (only young warts clean up). Secondly, after the procedure of electrothermic coagulation there are always hems or scars.
Whether you know? The virus of papilloma of the person was officially registered by the International committee on taxonomy of viruses in 1971.
One more method of removal of good-quality formations on a sole is cryodestruction. At treatment by this method use liquid nitrogen which moves on papilloma with high pressures. Such way of treatment allows to delete pathologies of varying complexity and at the same time not to leave scars. Treatment drags on for 3-4 weeks. The main procedure painful, but continues no more than 2 minutes.
After cryodestruction on the place of papilloma the blister which independently resolves and separates over time from skin is formed, and on its place there is a pink spot. The main objective of the attending physician in this case is the correct determination of depth of a new growth. If depth is measured incorrectly, that is risk of damage of living tissue of epidermis. It is very dangerous, temperature of liquid nitrogen is-195.75 ºС (by the way, the blister arises because of such low temperature).
One of the most popular methods of removal of chicken warts is laser therapy. It allows to control more precisely influence depth, has the best cosmetic effect and does not cause strong pain (unlike cryodestruction). Besides, after removal of pathology the laser the risk of a recurrence comes down to zero. And still remote fabrics of a wart can be sent to a histologic research. The radio wave method is used not so often, but in some special cases it is the most optimum. At treatment by this method use a radio knife which deletes pathological formations on a sole and at the same time cauterizes vessels, without allowing an infection to extend on all organism by means of a blood-groove.
The method of surgical removal of plantar new growths in modern medicine is practically not used. This painless method as operation becomes under a local anesthesia. But a shortcoming is long and disease process of healing, and there are almost always scars. But in cases when the wart has the big sizes and other methods to remove it it is impossible, surgical intervention is just necessary.
How to fight in house conditions
The wart on foot causes a lot of discomfort and pain therefore many people ask questions how to get rid of an illness. Not always there are desire and means for treatment by above-mentioned methods of therapy at the expert. In such cases it is necessary to be engaged in increase in immunity and treatment in pharmaceutical means.
Increase in immunity is promoted by various vitamin complexes, active lifestyle, positive thinking, meditation, yoga, etc. Sometimes our organism is capable to cure itself, but for this purpose it needs to be helped in all ways. Stresses, bad ecology, improper feeding — all this promotes activation of HPV. The main thing is to remember: strong immunity — pledge of a sound body.
Will help to strengthen immunity and to predotvoratit various diseases also a healthy sleep, healthy nutrition, physical activity. Besides, you should not forget about hardening which not only will promote strengthening of an organism at the physical level, but also will increase resistance to stressful situations.
It is important! If HPV passes into an active phase and at the same time the immune system is very weakened, then at once there is a risk of development of a melanoma (skin cancer).
In certain cases at house treatment apply salicylic acid in the form of a bandage ("corn Urgokor", Galmanin or Mozolin). Before use the leg at which there is a wart should be soaked in warm water. Further to apply a bandage and to go with it within 2 days. Sometimes for elimination of a new growth of a bandage it is necessary to carry for 3 months.
Also apply various ointments to destruction of chicken warts: "Terbufenovy", "Oksolinovuyu" and others. Today in drugstores there are many medicines for removal of pathological new growths on foot ("Vartner krio", Verrukatsid, Superchistotel (potassium and sodium a hydroxide), Solkoderm, etc.), but they not always bring the maximum effect of treatment.
Folk remedies
Sometimes treatment by folk remedies is not less effective, than treatment by methods of modern medicine. Here list of some ways of treatment of plantar papillomas by methods of nonconventional medicine:
- Rubbing of new growths garlic. It is necessary to rub daily, not less than three-four times a day.
- Rubbing of papillomas juice from a celandine. To repeat the procedure on 2-3 times a day.
- If papillomas developed quite recently, then artificial ice will help to cope with them (it can be taken in any grocery store). Ice needs to be put to a sore point and to hold until skin maintains cold.
- At papillomas magnesia powder helps. It is accepted for a month every day in the morning and in the evening. Before food it is necessary to accept 1/4 teaspoons of magnesia.
- Every evening it is necessary to wash legs in warm water with addition of pieces of laundry soap and salt. After that to put the cotton wool piece rubbed with laundry soap on a wart. When the new growth peels off, on its place it is necessary to put tea tree oil.
- In the center of papilloma every morning it is necessary to drip a little bit acetic acid. It promotes a new growth usykhaniye.
- To take small glass or ceramic capacity, to put in it a spoon of flour (dining room), to add several drops of essence acetic and to mix everything. To put the received dough to a wart, but not to affect healthy skin. To fix all by a medical plaster. To do procedures every evening, to leave a compress for the whole night, and since morning to remove.
- Every evening it is necessary to do compresses of a mountain ash and to leave them for the whole night. To take one berry of a mountain ash, to cut in half and to put to papilloma, then to fix from above by a plaster.
- To take onions, to cut in half and to put in acetic acid at several o'clock. Then the cut-off place to put to papilloma and to wind with bandage. To do compresses until the wart does not disappear.
- To steam legs in hot water for half an hour every evening. After that properly to wipe feet a terry towel and to put a propolis piece to papilloma.
- From flowers of a wild dogrose to prepare gruel and to do of it compresses which it is necessary to leave for 10 hours. It is necessary to replace bandages twice a day.
- Papilloma can be tied up strong dense red thread. In 2-3 days it has to turn black and fall off.
- To prepare gruel from a kalanchoe and to make of it a compress. In a week of procedures the new growth has to leave.
- To make mix of hempseed oil and honey in a proportion 4:1. To grease with the received solution papilloma as often as possible (the more often to grease, the quicker it will fall off).
Whether you know? Virion (full-fledged virus particle) of HPV in as much time is less than car how much the car is less than sun. That is if in proportion to increase a virus and the car, then when the virus becomes of the size of the car, the last will become of the size of the sun!
For giving of the maximum effect of therapy, it is possible to use several types of national treatment of papillomas at once. If some of above-mentioned recipes does not help, you do not hurry to be disappointed, at first try to undergo treatment by all listed methods, and then the effect will surely be shown.
Preventive measures
As prevention it is possible to observe the following precautionary measures:
- try not to wear tight, inconvenient and close shoes;
- always follow rules of personal hygiene;
- if you damaged foot, try to process at once it antiseptics;
- do not use personal means of hygiene of strangers;
- try to communicate with people who are struck with HPV less.
At observance of all above-mentioned rules the risk of infection of HPV comes down practically to zero. Also do not forget about the immunity. It is a basis of your good health.