Verruca Treatment
The first step is to find out where does it come from and if you or if you don’t have a verruca also known as plantar wart. The cause of this infections is the HPV or the human papillomavirus and in this particular case the manifestation is done on the foot, if you have something simillar but not on the foot then is anoter manifestation of the same virus. Even if usually they seft dissapear after some time treatment should be applyed because in time it produces pain.
This kind of virus is highly contagious, his nature is to live for several months without a host, especially in wet places like swimming pools, showers. The first manifestation is the skin attack where the virus tires to enter the first layer, in the second stage is can become invisible for some time even weeks or months. Due to the fact that is placed on the foot, the movement and day by day walking push the wart inside causing skin to grow on it. The simple contact of an infected area with skin or walking surfaces increases the contamination.
After the infection is installed the shape looks like a cauliflower with tiny dots represented by a small hemorrhage, being painful to push, scratch or cut. In time it advances thought the skin deeper and becomes much harder to remove.
The infection can evolve in many scenarios, depending on more than one factors, from a simple point infection to a multi spread over the whole foot.
There is no 100% removal treatment; there are many cases where it can reappear after because of some virus cells left in the healthy skin, there is no vaccine for this type of virus. There are various ways of effective solutions like: salicylic acid treatment, pulsed dye laser therapy or surgical removal.
In drug stores there are available methods like chemotherapy, keratolytic chemicals or immunotherapy.
One interesting fact is that the most successful method was 73% effective, salicylic acid, and that in one experiment a placebo was used with a 27% rate.
To prevent infection with verruca is recommended not to walk barefoot in unknown areas like public places, baths or showers, avoid the exchange of socks, shoes or any other material that has been in contact with another’s persons foot. Adults are protected more than children due to the fact that immunity is grown with time.
In the future with more understanding of the HPV and his effects over the human body scientists believe that a vaccine will be available, in time after separating the problems that are caused from it and universal vaccine for all the forms is expected.