2. Symptoms & Causes
• Skin growth caused by some types of the Human Papillomavirus, infecting
the top layer of skin usually entering through a break in the skin making it
grow rapidly
• Common warts: found on hands, sometimes in groups, and can be
indentified by appearing dome shaped, rough, and gray-brown in color
• Plantar warts: found on the feet, usually the bottom; pressure on the wart
will cause it to be pushed underneath the skins surface forming a callus
• Flat warts: small in size and formed in clusters usually found on face, arms,
or legs and vary in colors like pink, light brown or yellow
• Filiform warts: kind of flat wart found around the mouth or nose being
flesh colored and finger shaped
• Peruingual warts: found under and around fingernails & toenails
appearing as rough, irregular bumps affecting nail growth
• Warts are spread by reinfecting yourself from touching the wart and then
touching another body part or sharing personal items with an infected
person
3. Diagnosis & Treatment
• Warts usually go away on their own after months or sometimes years but
if you decide to treat a wart before that you can use various methods
such as:
– Salicylic Acid, a medicine that softens the skin layers allowing the wart to be rubbed
off, available in tapes, creams, etc.
– Cryotherapy, at home or by a doctor, uses chemicals to freeze away the warts
– Retiniod cream, disrupting the warts growth
– Cantharidin, causing the skin underneath the wart to blister and fall off
– Bichloracetic acid, killing warts by destroying the proteins in the cells
– Electrotherapy, burning the wart off with an electric current
– Laser treatment, burning the wart off with an intense beam of light
4.
5. Bibliography
• "Warts Treatments: Home and Doctor's Office
Treatments." WebMD. WebMD, 03 Jan.Web.
27 Sept. 2013.
• Staff, Mayo Clinic. "Definition." Mayo Clinic.
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and
Research, 13 Apr. 2012. Web. 28 Sept. 2013.
