Warts are growths on the surface of the skin caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). While usually benign, these pesky bumps are in fact contagious.
Warts are contagious and you are more likely to pick them up in warm moist areas such as swimming pools or public showers. People who sweat more may be more prone and it is very common to see in children as they may pick them up at school from others.
Treatment in our clinic can involve different strength topicals that illicit the immune system to, in a sense, ‘’wake up’’ and shock the immune system to expel the viral skin lesion. The immune system will then start to fight the virus from the inside; the treatments can also attack the wart from the outside.
The topical solutions we use on the wart may provoke a blister to develop and this will typically begin to heal within a week. Once the blister resolves, so does that wart.
The topical solutions we use on the wart may provoke a blister to develop and this will typically begin to heal within a week. Once the blister resolves, so does that wart.
Sometimes, with in-clinic medication, only one or two treatments are necessary. We will also give you home treatment to do in the weeks after, to make sure the wart doesn’t have a chance to grow back! As we know, warts are stubborn little things and need to be attacked quite regularly to stop spreading and remove them for good!