There are various methods to get rid of warts. These are laser therapy and cryotherapy and more. But all of these methods require huge financial costs, and therefore, when people discover this education in themselves, they first of all start wondering how to remove a wart at home, and can this be done at all? You can, but before you do this, know what a wart is and what problems home treatment can lead to.
What is a wart?
A wart (papilloma) is a malignant neoplasm of the skin, which can be of different types - flat, rounded and plantar. It appears for a reason. It is not provoked by hormonal changes in the body or other pathologies. Warts occur as a result of papillomavirus damage to the body.
You can catch this virus anywhere. To do this, it is enough just to visit a public place with wounds, unhealed wounds or cracks on your skin. Through a hole in the skin, papillomavirus enters the body, but it does not manifest itself immediately.
For 2-3 months, the virus lives in the human body and does not manifest itself in any way. And during this period, a person freely visits public places, not even suspecting that he is ill and is a carrier of papillomavirus.
When the virus is activated in the body, the skin begins to deform and seals appear on them, which may differ in color from the skin color, rise above it or, conversely, resemble a small spot. At the same time, the size of the warts can also be different, ranging from a few millimeters to 3-5 cm.
However, it should be noted that you can become infected with this pathogen through sexual contact with an infected person. In this case, papillomas form on the genitals and not only externally but also internally. Below we will consider how to remove a wart, but it is worth saying that you can not use all these methods with this manifestation of the disease. This requires qualified help from a specialist and passing antiviral therapy.
What are the dangers of removing warts at home?
Before talking about how to remove a wart at home, it is necessary to say a few words that home treatment can become dangerous for you if you do not know how to perform certain procedures properly or neglect these tips.
Why is it dangerous to remove papillomas at home? First, almost all methods of getting rid of warts require the use of agents whose action is aimed at cauterizing the neoplasm. If the procedure is performed incorrectly, there is a risk of burns on the skin and scarring.
Second, if you do not follow all the rules for removing warts at home, it is possible for papillomavirus to spread to other healthy areas of the skin and introduce another infection into the wound, which will aggravate the course of the disease.
And third, despite the wart being a benign formation, there is a risk of turning into a malignant papilloma. Therefore, before performing home treatment for warts, you should consult your doctor.
And most importantly, you can not use alternative medicine and even more modern drugs to remove warts in children. This can be dangerous for their health!
Alternative medicine
How do we remove warts with folk remedies? Different methods can be used for this. We will now consider the most effective of them in more detail. But first I would like to note that all the means used to remove papillomas can lead to skin burns. To prevent this from happening, before each procedure take a regular cast, cut a hole in it where only the wart fits. The patch should be glued to the skin and place the papilloma in the cut hole. This helps prevent burns to the skin.
Garlic and vinegar tincture and ointment
The use of this tincture is the most effective way to remove the wart. To prepare it, take 4 cloves of garlic, peel them, pass through a press or grate on a fine grater. Then pour the resulting garlic porridge into ½ cup of apple cider vinegar.
The tool should be insisted in a dark place for at least two weeks, and then strain. With the resulting infusion, just wipe the wart twice a day. The procedures are performed until the neoplasm disappears completely.
From these ingredients you can also prepare an ointment that also effectively removes warts. To prepare it, pass the peeled garlic through a press. It is in the amount of 1 tsp. should be mixed with pork fat (it should be pre-melted) in a ratio of 1: 1 and 4 tsp. apple cider vinegar.
How to quickly remove a wart with this ointment? It should be applied to the neoplasm with a thick layer, covered with polyethylene on top and wrapped with a bandage. The compress should not be removed for 6-8 hours.
Celandine juice
Celandine juice was also used by our great-grandmothers to treat various skin diseases. Its use can be compared to laser removal of papillomas. The effectiveness of the procedure is immediately noticeable. The wart darkens, dries and decreases in volume.
To perform treatment at home, it is necessary to lubricate the formation on the skin with fresh celandine juice 1-2 times every day. Then you can not wet it for 1-2 hours. Such activities should be performed regularly until the papilloma disappears.
Wheat flour and vinegar
Is it possible to remove a wart at home in just 2-3 days? Able to. And for this it is recommended to use the following tool - a cake. It is made from wheat flour, garlic and vinegar essence. Remember that the higher the concentration of vinegar, the more effective the treatment.
Vinegar and garlic passed through a press should be mixed in equal amounts, after which wheat flour should be added to the resulting mixture until you get an elastic dough. It should be attached to the papilloma, wrapped on top with polyethylene and a bandage.
You need to go with a compress for 2-3 days. Then it must be removed, but this must be done very carefully as the wart must also be removed along with the cake and along with the root. Fossa formed at the site of papilloma should be treated with Vishnevsky ointment.
Iodine
Home remedies for wartsYou can use alcoholic tincture of iodine, which is available in all homes. Its use is the safest method of getting rid of papillomas, which can be used even in children.
So to get rid of a wart it is necessary to lubricate it with iodine 2-3 times every day. Of course, there will be no immediate result. But after 3-5 days, the papilloma begins to darken and dry out. It is necessary to perform such procedures until the training disappears by itself.
Salicylic acid
You can remove the wart at home using salicylic acid. It is sold not only as an ointment but also as a solution. For home procedures, you need exactly one salicylic acid solution.
Before using it, the area of the skin on which the wart is placed must be thoroughly steamed. Then a salicylic acid solution must be applied to the neoplasm. In order not to get burned, this must be done with a cotton swab. From above, the treated papilloma should be wrapped with film and a bandage.
The compress should be stored overnight. In the morning, remove the bandage and rinse the treated area with warm water. This procedure should be performed every day until the formation disappears. At the same time, every other day, the wart is tedious to treat with a pumice stone to remove the upper stratum corneum from it.
Cauterization with lapis
How to remove a wart at home quickly? For this you can use a piece of pencil. You can buy it at any pharmacy. However, it should be used very carefully as lapis is a dry silver nitrate that can cause severe burns and scarring. Therefore, this method of getting rid of warts on the face is not recommended.
To get rid of papillomas, just treat them with a pencil. Already the same day they become darker and begin to fall off. If the wart just got darker after the first procedure but did not disappear, repeat the treatment the next day.
Tea tree oil
Yes, this tool does not give as fast results as, for example, a lapis pencil, but it is definitely for the soft tissue that surrounds the papilloma. To use tea tree oil, take a small piece of bandage, soak it with oil and apply it on the wart. From above, the bandage can be fastened with an ordinary plaster.
Keep the compress on all night and do it every day. The most important thing here is that the oil used is of high quality and without impurities.
Onion
How do we remove warts with folk remedies? To do this, you can use ordinary onions, which are also found in every home. It must be peeled and rolled through a meat grinder and the resulting onion porridge must be applied to the neoplasm, all this must be wrapped with cling film and bandage. You need to go with such a compress for 2-3 hours. It should be done every day until the papilloma disappears.
This method of combating warts is unique in that it is not only able to remove the formation itself, but also its roots, which prevents the re-emergence of papillomas.
It should be noted that traditional medicine is very good at helping fight warts. But they are not able to remove the cause of their appearance - papillomavirus. Therefore, after some time neoplasms reappear on the skin.
To get rid of warts once and for all, you must undergo a full course of antiviral therapy, which includes taking special medications and a diet.