Plantar Warts Treatment
Can this condition be treated? What Plantar Warts treatment options are available? Learn more below about the current treatments available to patients.
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How to Treat Plantar Warts
There are many over-the-counter products available to treat warts. These therapies often contain a mild acid. You can usually apply them when a wart first appears.
Another popular and less expensive treatment is using duct tape to cover a wart for a week at a time. This is also done with weekly “sanding” of the wart with a pumice stone.
You should see a doctor:
- For recurrent warts
- For those that fail to respond to initial treatment
- When over-the-counter therapies are not well-tolerated
- When the diagnosis is unclear
After confirming the diagnosis of plantar warts, the doctor may use one or more of the following:
- Cryotherapy-freezing the warts to kill the virus
- Laser treatment-using a laser to kill the virus and destroy wart tissue
- Electrocautery treatment-burning the wart
- Surgical removal-cutting out the warts (with anesthetic)
- Immune therapy-application of substances that stimulate the immune system's response to the wart-causing virus
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