Removing Plantar Warts
Removing plantar warts is the work of a profoundly qualified physician. He will give self care instructions. To have warts is indeed an awkward state. Removing plantar warts will decrease the spreading of warts to other organs of body or to other people as well. If necessary, the physician cut out the wart by using scalpel and this technique is known as debridement. Though warts are removed by physicians but podiatrists and dermatologists are specialists in removing plantar warts. [1]
Removing plantar warts naturally:
The most embarrassing condition for removing plantar warts is going to a dispensary, that’s why the patients always search certain other ways to get rid of warts. Plantar warts can be removed by the patient himself. Patches of salicylic acid should be applied and use pumice stone regularly.
Steps involved in self remedies:
- Take sulphur containing amino acids in diet like onions, citrus fruits, eggs etc.
- Consumption of aloe vera juice can melt the plantar warts [1]
- To cure warts, fruits like papaya, pineapple containing proteolysis enzymes should be taken
- Juice of the leaf or stem of milkweed should be applied to warts once in a day
- Figs can be ribboned on the skin of the patients
Removing plantar warts chemically:
Removing plantar warts chemically involves cryotherapy in which liquid nitrogen is used to freeze the wart and to kill the effected cells. This is needed for 2 to 4 times within 3 weeks. Medicines like lactic acid, trichloroacetic acid, formalin, retin-A, bleomycin may be injected into the warts after adequate supervision. Removing plantar warts by keratolysis engrosses the peeling away of skin cells. Lasers may be effective but it is very expensive and painful for removing plantar warts. Use of dilute glutaraldehyde is extremely effective in removing plantar warts.
Reference:
1. Jeffery S Cooper, MD, clinical instructor, department of emergency medicine,
St.Vincent’s Mercy Medical center, Toledo OH, 2001.