Plantar Wart: What is it, Symptoms, and Treatment.
The most common age group to develop warts is teens and young adults. They are a virus-based soft tissue disorder. One of the most frequent types of warts is called a plantar wart, sometimes referred to as a verruca or verruca plantaris.
When viruses infiltrate the skin through a minor or undetectable cut or abrasion, plantar warts develop. Warts should be treated as soon as they are identified since, if left unattended, they can readily spread or aggravate already unpleasant conditions. They can also bleed, which raises additional medical issues.
Causes:
One of the main causes of warts is exposure of bare feet to unclean or dirty surfaces. Since viruses prefer warm, moist conditions, public bathhouses are a breeding ground for foot infections.
Foot warts are spread by:
- contacting diseased tissues
- Scratching the diseased regions
- exposure to skin flakes from another wart
- Wart hemorrhage and rupture
Symptoms and Diagnosis.
Plantar warts can become painful and blistering when they start to appear. When pressure is applied directly on the wart or the sides of the wart, pain is produced.
Sometimes people wrongly believe that warts are corns or calluses. However, more dangerous diseases (such carcinomas and melanomas) might occasionally be misinterpreted as warts.
Plantar warts usually include the following characteristics:
- a rough feeling
- Rather flat
- in terms of perimeter
- From gray to brown in color
- having black dots in the middle
Care & Treatment.
A plantar wart may disappear naturally in various circumstances. Treatment may be needed in other situations. There are several ways to treat a plantar wart, including going to the doctor or taking care of it yourself.
Treatments include of:
Salicylic acid, which can help "burn" off the wart and is available as a liquid, cream, stick, or embedded on cotton pads, can also be used in cryotherapy to "freeze" off the wart curettage, which entails removing the wart medication that has been applied directly to the wart, and laser therapy to destroy the wart's blood supply.