Wart

Warts do not have roots. This concept of warts growing like trees and plants is utter nonsense! The terminology got started long ago when scraped-off warts revealed a velvety root like surface below.

Also, if you look down on a wart, you can see small dots in the surface of the wart which the old-timers called “seeds.” But there are no seeds or roots in warts. The dots you see are merely thrombosed, or plugged, capillaries which feed the surface of the wart. Warts do not grow down into other tissues. In fact, each and every wart is a simple epidermal growth. That is, it grows in the most superficial layer of skin and never penetrates the dermis or second layer of skin. That’s why they don’t scar if they’re removed carefully and gently.

Dr. Scholl’s Freeze Away Wart Removing Kit

There are about as many treatments for warts as there are patients who have them, and there is no one perfect treatment. The key words in wart therapy are “first do no harm,” the physician’s prime imperative. In short, when taking off warts, physicians don’t want to cause a scar or mark that looks worse than the wart did or that lasts longer tlìan the wart might have lasted. That’s why we’ve largely abandoned treatments that burn off or cut off warts because of the scar left behind.

These days we rely on treatments that, although not uniformly successful the first time, can remove a wart dependably in most cases if the follow-up is adequate. Among these techniques is the application of various chemicals and/or acids to the wart surface in order to scale it off slowly. Many “wart removers” are available over the counter. They are much less effective than your doctor’s treatments.

A popular way to remove warts is by the use of cryosurgery. This literally means “surgery with cold.” In this technique, the skin is sprayed lightly with liquid nitrogen at the remarkable temperature of minus 196° C. This freezing method makes a small split or blister just below the wart. As the blister arises, the wart is pushed upward. Then the blister falls off~ and if all parts of the wart were frozen adequately, the wart falls off with the blister top.

Occasionally, with larger lesions, the technique has to be repeated several times at two to three week intervals.

But it is not all that easy with the freezing treatment. The freezing of small parts of the skin creates a case of frostbite and that hurts.

Wart Removal And Treatment