Treatment for Warts

Warts are one of the most common conditions that people suffer from, and are more often seen in children and teenagers than they are in adults.

A wart is typically a small growth that appears on a person’s hands or feet and looks like a solid blister or a small cauliflower. They may also appear in other parts of the body. Warts are usually painless, but can cause itching and burning if they are in high-friction areas.
There are many different kinds of warts, including common warts, flat warts, plantar warts, and genital warts. The common wart is generally raised and dome-shaped with a rough, grayish-brown surface.

Symptoms of Wart : 

Warts come in various shapes and sizes and usually appear as rough elevations on the skin. These elevations appear more frequently on the fingers, elbows, knees, face, and scalp. Those that appear on the soles of the feet are called plantar warts. They are very painful and the sufferer is not able to walk properly.

Causes of Warts :

Viruses called human papillomavirus (HPV) cause warts. It is easier to catch a virus that causes warts when you have a cut or scrape on your skin. Warts also are more common on parts of the body that people shave such as the beard area in men and the legs in women. You can spread warts from one place on your body to another.Warts can spread from person to person.
You can get warts from touching a wart on someone’s body. Some people get a wart after touching something that another person’s wart touched, such as a towel. It often takes a few months for warts to grow large enough to see.

Warts Remedies:

• As a natural wart remedy, few things are more natural than potatoes. Try rubbing freshly cut raw white potatoes on the warts several times a day. You should see results in a couple of weeks. 
• Fresh Aloe Vera juice is applied directly to dissolve warts and tone the skin. 
• White Household Vinegar & Baking Soda: Sprinkle a heavy coat of baking soda on the area then drizzle vinegar over it. Do this once in the morning and once at night. 
• Baking Soda: Slather on a thick paste made with baking soda and water. 
• The fresh plant, sap (figs) or concentrate (papain) can be applied; any of these can be taped to the skin for several hours. 
• Clear Nail Polish: Paint it with a coat of clear nail polish, reapply as needed.
• Apply a compress or cotton ball soaked in vinegar and tape it down on the wart with an elastic bandage for at least one or two hours daily. 
• Pull a dandelion from your yard, break the stem and squeeze some of its liquid onto your wart. Do this daily as needed. The sap is mildly irritating, so it stimulates your immune system to take care of the wart. Don’t use dandelions that have been treated with herbicides during the previous few years. 
• If a piece of birch bark is available, dampen it with water and tape it over your wart with the inner side of the bark facing your skin. The bark contains salicylates, which are found in many over-the-counter wart treatments. 
• You can also make a tea from powdered birch bark, available from health-food stores. Steep a teaspoon of bark in a cup of boiling water for 10 minutes, let it cool, soak a cloth in it and press it on the wart. 
• Tape a piece of banana peel, inner side down, over the wart before you go to bed. A chemical in the peel can slowly dissolve the wart. Or, try the same with a piece of lemon peel. An oil in the peel seems to discourage warts.
• Cover the wart with clear nail polish and let it dry. When the nail polish wears off repeat the process. The wart should be gone in two weeks. 
• Vitamin C Tablet: Mix a thick paste of finely crushed Vitamin C tablet and water. 
• Tape an aspirin tablet to the wart and change the tablet daily. The wart will be gone in 1 – 2 weeks.
• The most popular – and anecdotally successful – home remedy is the apple cider vinegar remedy, which apparently work to redress the skin’s pH balance and thus eliminate the wart.