Warts: Causes, Symptoms and Remedies

Are you worried about skin growth on the surface of your skin? It may be wart. Take care and consult your dermatologist. What is wart? The wart is a non-cancerous skin growth on epidermis of the skin. The skin growth is nourished by the blood and nerve supply of its own. How it is caused? It is a viral infection. Warts are caused by human papilloma virus (HPV). There are so many known HPV species. You may be feel acute pain. If you are careless, they tend to spread.

Contagious

Do you say that warts are contagious? Yes. The HPV attempts breed around ponds, public toilets, swimming pools and dark and shady places wherein moisture prevails. When compared with other types, the genital warts are considered as most contagious. You may be touching the wart or the infected area and you may even touch the other part of your body un affected by warts and there is every chance to get yourself re-infected. It may spread to someone if that individual has low immunity. So take care in not using others' clothes like towel, handkerchief or safety razor and remember to wear footwear while loitering in these areas.

Infection

How HPV infects? The HPV always make attempt to infect the epidermis or outer most layer of your skin. Once the virus is able to gain entry into your skin layer, it influences and accelerates rapid growth of cells on the outer layer of skin. As a result a wart appears on your skin. The warts may take their own period of time to grow and mature - some times within a month and some times beyond a year.

Diagnoses

How to recognize warts? Warts show growth in different sizes and shapes. On some body locations it may show bulged growth with coarse skin surface and some other locations it may be flat and smooth skin. As told earlier warts get their blood vessels. You may notice a tiny dark spot at its center. They may measure less than a half-inch. Mostly common warts develop on the hands. However it may develop on any part of the body.

Warts can occur in a variety of shapes and sizes. A wart may appear as a bump with a rough surface, or it may be flat and smooth. Tiny blood vessels grow into the wart and may appear as dark dots in the center. Typically, the skin lines and creases over the wart are distorted. Warts can appear either alone or in groups. (Wikipedia)

Types of warts

The different types of warts are:

1) Common warts: They usually grow around the nails on the finger and on the back of the hands.

2) Flat warts: They appear smaller and flat. They develop mainly on childrens' face, or on the face (bearded area of the skin) of the adult males and on the legs of adult females.

3) Plantar warts: Plantar warts appear thick, usually flat, endophytic, yellowish colored rough plaques. Black dots may also be seen. These are warts which mainly grow on the soles of the feet and are known to grow inwards, occurring due to pressure of standing and walking. These are often painful.

4) Genital warts: Both men and women suffer from small sized fleshy lump found growing around their anal and genital regions. Genital warts, also known as venereal warts or condylomata acuminata, are caused by the Human papilloma virus (HPV). They are sexually transmitted. (Wikipedia)

Home Remedies

Ayurveda and Siddha systems of medicine have found certain home remedies. You may try out any one or other remedies and if the wart growth show any response keep continue till it gets cured.

Application of Vegetables and Fruits:

1) Banana Peel: Banana peel has potent ingredients to fight against the bumpy swellings caused by warts viruses. The most effective remedy is collecting banana peels and spread them on the surface and tape it with plaster or tie it with bandage cloth. Repeat this till the swelling bursts and dried out.

2) Fig: Figs contain enzymes that digest and dissolve warts in a safe manner. You just tape and attach the fig pulp on your wart for several hours. Also apply milky juice of fresh and barely-ripe figs a number of times a day. Continue for two weeks.

3) Fruits and Chalk powder Mixture: Prepare a mixture comprising papaya juice and pineapple juice. Mix chalk powder with water and prepare a paste. Mix this paste with fruit juice and prepare a thick paste. Apply this paste on the swelling as many times as possible till the swelling softens and burst out and dried off.

4) Garlic Paste: Garlic has divine healing power. Just prepare garlic paste and apply over your warts. Repeat the treatment at least two to three times in a day. Continue this treatment for a fortnight. You wi1l get quick healing.

5) Onion: Onions in general have potency to heal any swelling. In case if you are bitten by any insect just rub raw onion on the spot. Warts will also show good response if treated with raw onion. Warts sometimes disappear when rubbed with cut onions.

6) Papaya: Papaya contains the most potent enzyme papain capable of dissolving warts in a painless manner. You just tape and attach the papaya pulp on your wart for several hours.

7) Pineapple: Pineapple contains the most potent enzyme bromelain capable of curing warts in a painless manner. You just tape and attach the pineapple pulp on your wart for several hours.

Application of Herbs and Oils

1) Aloe Vera Extract: Fresh Aloe Vera extract will dissolve warts and tone the skin most effective for genital warts. Application of aloe Vera juice directly on the affected area will find an effective remedy.

2) Cashew nut oil: The cashew nut oil is extracted from the shell of the cashew nut. It will be available in any Ayurveda / Siddha Drug stores. It will be useful in treating warts since it has strong potency in healing skin disorders. Apply this oil externally over the affected area till you get warts get dissolved.

3) Castor oil: Indian households will always keep castor oil for several applications. Any swelling will be treated with external application of castor oil. Warts could also be treated with this oil. This oil should be applied generously over the affected parts every night. The treatment should be continued for a longer period till you get better results.

4) Vinegar: If you get warts on your face or other sensitive parts of your body, just apply the vinegar on a soft dry cloth and massage it on the infected area very gently. You will certainly get them cured. Apple cider vinegar has active ingredients which can bring down warts. Just soak your hand or foot in apple cider vinegar for fifteen minutes every day

Source:

1) I Love India - Home Remedy for warts - http://www.iloveindia.com/home-remedies/warts.html

2) HPV FAQ.com http://www.hpvfaq.com/

3) Dr Scholl's FAQ about Warts http://www.drscholls.com/drscholls/wartremoval/faq.jsp

4) Wikipedia - Genital wart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genital_wart

5) Wikipedia - Wart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wart