Health

Warts

February 12, 2013
Prevention

The best thing you can do to prevent warts is to avoid walking barefoot in public places, especially gyms, showers, changing rooms and swimming pools so you can avoid direct contact with contaminated objects. However, if your child has a wart, here are the steps you should take to avoid contagion:

  • If you chose an over the counter treatment, cover warts adequately for the duration of the treatment.
  • Always wash your hands after touching the wart.
  • Make sure nobody in the family uses your child’s towel or personal items.
  • Ask your child not to scratch his wart or make it bleed.
Treatments

Your doctor will recommend a treatment based on your child’s age, the type of the wart and its location. If it’s a common wart, your doctor may advise you to get one of the topical preparations available in pharmacies that contain salicylic acid or lactic acid to treat the infected skin. Plantar warts, which are tougher, are more responsive to laser treatments or cryotherapy, a process that uses cold as liquid nitrogen to freeze the warts and which is more painful and therefore used by doctors only when the wart will not disappear by itself.

If you are pregnant, have diabetes or any other health problems that affect your bloodstream and you have a wart, do not use the over the counter products available in pharmacies but instead you should contact your doctor so he can tell you what to do. This also applies for infants who have a wart.
 

Sources : Wikipedia, Canoë Santé, Passeport Santé.

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