Warts are widespread among people. According to the latest data, the human papillomavirus infected more than half of the world's population. Wart removal with home remedies can be easily done at home. Therefore, you will find the most popular and effective home remedies in the following article.
warts
A wart is a benign skin growth caused by a virus. This disease is more common in children and adolescents.
The transmission of the infection occurs directly from person to person, through household items and autografts (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin injuries and mental shocks contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4 to 5 months.
Distinguishes ordinary warts (simple, vulgar), flat (juvenile) and pointed (pointed kandiloma).
Common warts are rounded, dense and painless nodules 3 to 10 mm in diameter, their surface is rough, the color is normal skin or grayish brown.
His favorite location is the back of the hands and fingers, the face, the scalp. If the warts are located on the feet, the so-called plantar warts, the patient may experience pain when walking.
Flat (juvenile) warts - small nodules of 0. 5 to 3. 0 mm, flesh-colored or yellowish, rounded, with a smooth, flat surface, barely protruding above the skin level. Located on the face and back of the hands.
Genital warts are pointed, grow rapidly, coalesce, and resemble a cockscomb or cauliflower. The color of these warts is light pink to bright pink. They are usually located in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, in the almost anal region, on the genitals. Its development is facilitated by irritation and prolonged maceration of the skin.
types of warts
There are several types of warts:
- common warts- These are fairly dense nodules of a rounded shape with a rough surface. The size is 3 to 10 mm in diameter. Its favorite habitat is the back of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsThey appear on the soles. Plantar warts, unlike ordinary warts, are painful and consist of bundles of filiform papillae, around which there is a roller of powerful horny layers. It looks like a corn, so it can be confused. The cause of plantar warts is the friction of shoes and frequent pressure.
- flat warts- These are small nodules with a size of only 0. 5-3 mm. Its color is the same as that of the skin or with a yellowish tint. The surface is strongly flattened, smooth. They usually occur on the face and the back of the hands. More common in schoolchildren.
- Genital warts- This is a special type of wart. They are treated by urologists, gynecologists and venereologists.
How to treat this disease? There are two methods of treating warts: home remedies and fighting through magic. Let's talk about home remedies, here are some home treatment options.
Why do you need to get rid of warts?
The reason for the appearance of a cosmetic defect on the hands and other parts of the body is its "contagion". Having penetrated the body in one way or another, the papillomavirus does not appear immediately. Quite a long time passes, from one to several months. In this case, the carrier of the virus may not have any manifestations. As a general rule, HPV spreads in the superficial layers of the skin.
HPV is transmitted from mother to fetus, as well as through skin damage. They can be infected in a public bathroom, when visiting the pool. Penetration is facilitated by excessive dryness or moisture of the skin, lack of capillary blood supply.
It turns out that the habit of biting nails is one of the reasons for the appearance of warts on the hands. The need to get rid of warts on the face is often caused by mechanical damage received during shaving, waxing and peeling, when more opportunities are created for the penetration of the virus.
If the body's defenses are weakened, and periodic measures are not taken to strengthen immunity, the probability of this cosmetic defect also increases.
Despite the good quality of a skin neoplasm, in especially advanced cases, a body cell in which the papilloma virus has changed the DNA can become the source of a malignant tumor. The virus gene is often found in tumor cells. As a general rule, one test is enough to make a diagnosis. In the case of internal injuries, for example, the cervix, the DNA of the damaged cells is examined.
The transmission mechanism of the virus is not well understood.
But it is noted that the probability of infection increases:
- when taking birth control pills that reduce immunity;
- during pregnancy, when immunity is also reduced;
- with violations in the body of the hormonal background;
- many women who have given birth.
Traditional and non-traditional therapies
There are many ways to treat warts, both traditional and non-traditional.
The doctor may suggest diathermocoagulation, freezing with liquid nitrogen, and all kinds of lubrication. Perhaps no skin disease is treated by non-traditional methods as widely as warts.
Often the best treatment for warts is to leave them alone. In most patients, the immune defense works and the warts go away on their own.
Doctors in ancient China offered the following recipe: Attach a piece of ginger root to the wart and cover it with steaming wormwood leaves on top. Under the influence of burning wormwood, ginger root begins to release antiviral compounds.
You can also try homeopathic remedies.
One of the ancient methods of treating warts was the use of conspiracies, in other words, "psychotherapy". For those who do not believe in conspiracies, we recommend autogenic training: sit comfortably in an armchair, relax, close your eyes and take a deep breath. At the same time, imagine how the warts disappear. Extrasensory influence is very effective.
How to get rid of warts at home.
Since getting rid of warts at home is much more convenient than in a medical institution, many people prefer to use various folk remedies. Although these methods often give a positive result, they should be used with caution, as what helped one patient may harm another. Also, with careless use of aggressive agents, for example, vinegar essence, a burn often occurs, after which a scar remains.
Not all types of warts need to be treated at home. Enough reliable and safe folk remedies can only get rid of simple and flat varieties. One of the effective ways to remove a wart at home is to act on it with one or another aggressive substance. Many are helped by the simplest means.
For example, in the case of young formations, they get rid of them with dandelion juice, sour apple, daily smeared with vinegar essence or celandine juice, it is better to take it near the root of the plant. The skin around is treated with petroleum jelly so as not to cause burns. After various procedures, the tissues begin to blacken and die, they are regularly cut with nail scissors. After the procedure is completed, the scissors should be kept in the flame for a short time.
An effective, but long-term removal of warts with folk remedies is done with onion juice or garlic. After applying the juice, you need to wait a bit for it to be completely absorbed. For guaranteed elimination of the defect, it is necessary to treat it for several weeks.
At night, you can make compresses from a thin plate of fresh garlic so that the garlic does not touch healthy skin. Freshly cut potato peel is suitable, its juice is applied externally several times a day.
You can finely grate a clean fresh potato along with the peel and make a compress from the resulting suspension for the night. It is possible to get rid of a wart in this way within a month. If the potatoes start to sprout, take half a cup of sprouts, fill it with water to the brim and put it on low heat. When half of the water boils, remove the cup from the heat. Lubricating the affected areas once a day with the received folk remedy, in some cases it is possible to get rid of the wart in a few days.
At home, HPV is treated with table salt. From a large onion, you need to remove the center and fill it with salt. After a while, the juice will stand out, they treat the affected area every day. Salt can also be mixed with finely grated horseradish. The extracted juice is applied in a similar way. It is possible to remove a wart at home with a calendula flower, it sticks at night. The procedure is repeated until the defect completely disappears.
To get rid of the formation on the skin, you need to steam it well and put a piece of propolis on it. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. People who get rid of warts are done with a crushed Kalanchoe leaf. Compresses are placed at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective means of infusion of wormwood. Prepare 3 tbsp. IDry the wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Apply compresses until completely eliminated.
Home remedies
Especially popular among the people are recipes using potatoes, apples and other products used many millennia ago.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, rub the wart on each half separately, then put them together and bury them in the garden.
- Cut a raw potato into 12 parts, rub the wart with each part for a minute, then "gather" the potato, tie it with a thin cloth and throw it into the manure. When the potato rots, the wart will disappear.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Throw one half on your head and rub the other half on the wart, then bury it in a dry place. When the buried part of the potato dries out or rots, the wart will disappear.
- Take a silk thread and tie a knot over each wart in the air. Then hide this thread in a cut potato and bury it so that no one knows about this place.
- Cut a tart apple in half. Eat one half and rub the warts with the other, then bury it in the ground. When the apple rots, the warts will disappear.
- Cut the apple into two parts with a stiff thread. Grate the warts with the two halves of the apple, then put them together and tie them with the same thread. Bury in the ground.
- On the new moon, take a stick with a knot, gently cut it and rub the wart with this place for two minutes, looking at the moon. The wart will disappear in a few days.
- Make as many knots in a thread as there are warts, bury this thread in the ground. When the thread rots, the warts will also disappear.
- Soak the raw onion in table vinegar for 2 hours and then tie it to the wart overnight. Repeat for several days in a row. The wart should come out with the root.
- Rub warts with fresh juice of sour apples for ten days. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Apply a bandage with mashed leaves of Kalanchoe (indoor plant) to the warts. After a day, change the bandage for a new one. Within a week, the warts should be gone.
- Urine treatment. Wet the warts with your own urine twice a day.
- Moisten the warts with water, and then rub with ammonia, from which they should quickly disappear.
- Every night before going to bed, drip 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart, after lubricating the surrounding skin with Vaseline, since the acid is very caustic. Inept use of acetic acid can lead to a burn, which is much more difficult to heal than the wart itself.
- Rub the wart with clean chalk, sprinkle more chalk on top, and tie it off with a red woolen cloth. Change the bandage every three days. Repeat three times. You can't get your hands wet.
- Take a thin wooden stick, hold its end over the fire and cauterize the wart. Repeat several times. In a week the wart will fall off.
- Dilute wood ash with water to the consistency of thick sour cream. Lubricate the resulting grout daily. Such recipes in some cases can not only help, but also harm, since there is a possibility of infection of the damaged area of the skin.
- Twice a day, drip juice of aloe, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja on the wart. The warts will disappear in a week.
- Willow bark helps a lot: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. "("Salerno Health Code", 14th century).
- Grind cornflower seeds, mix with lard. The resulting ointment is applied to the wart and bandaged. Change the bandage after three days. After 7 days, the warts will fall off.
In the Caucasus, they suggest treating warts with bean seeds, rubbing the wart with a bean, and burying it in manure.
Recipes for the treatment of warts from a traditional healer.
Reducing warts to an apple or potato (they should be with a wart-like bump or tuber - only in this case can a 100% positive effect be obtained). Cut an apple or potato in half (it is recommended to do it with a strong thread). With the half where the bump is visible, rub the warts (in some cases it is advisable to rub with both halves). Then connect the halves and tie them together with the thread you cut. Bury an apple or potato in the ground, away from your home. When they rot, the warts will disappear.
On a silk thread, knots are made in the air over each wart, while saying: "You can't live here. You shouldn't be here. My word is firm, unbreakable. "She hides the string in a freshly cut potato and bury it in the ground so no one will know. When the potatoes rot, the warts will disappear. In some cases, it is enough to bury only one thread.
Find a stalk with a root from a cut ear of grain or a blade of grass from the field. With the tip of a straw, prick the warts several times, pronouncing a conspiracy or prayer. After that, immediately bury the straw in a moist place with the root facing up. When the straw rots, the warts will disappear.
Wang's advice. Pick spurs (grass), dry, grind to powder, and sprinkle on wart.
One woman successfully reduced her granddaughter's warts by applying mosquito repellant ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an old "summer" method of reducing warts. It is necessary to catch the grasshopper and, holding it by the hind legs, let it "bite" the wart. The grasshopper secretes an iodine-like fluid from its mouth that has wart-reducing properties. If you have several warts, it is enough to show only one. After about a week, other warts will completely disappear.
Fill a vial with a capacity of 30-40 ml with chopped onion peel, pour 9% vinegar. Insist for 10-15 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. In the resulting solution, moisten gauze or a cotton cloth and apply it to the wart, preferably at night. They say that after such treatment, the warts disappear within 3-5 days.
There is an old and simple way to reduce warts with fungus. Any mushroom is suitable for this purpose and in any form: fresh, pickled, salted and dried (pre-soaking). Put the fungus on the wart at night and fix it, cover it with cellophane or wax paper on top. After several treatments, the warts will disappear.
disease prevention
And now some tips for the prevention of this disease:
- Follow the rules of personal hygiene.
- Eat a balanced diet rich in vitamins A, C and E to boost your immune system.
- Avoid stress and learn to relax.
- Put fresh oak leaves on your shoes instead of insoles.
senile warts
Its appearance is not associated with a viral infection. They appear in elderly and senile patients, they are seen as a flat, well-defined plaque, 0. 5 to 2. 0 cm in size, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black in color. Its surface is covered with loose, sebum-saturated horny masses.
Senile warts are most often located on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, on the trunk. If these warts are subjected to frequent traumatization, they may show a tendency to malignant transformation.
These warts do not need treatment. Avoid injuring them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed by diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- Squeezed juice of freshly cut sundew round-leaf herb, lubricate warts twice a day, in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Lubricate warts with fresh milkweed juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Scratch the wart with clean chalk (no impurities), pour more chalk on top, tie it.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce warts. "I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate warts with alcohol tincture of thuja.