How to recognize a wart

HOW TO
RECOGNIZE A WART

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HOW TO RECOGNIZE A WART

Warts are skin growths that appear on different parts of human body.

Latin name for warts is ‘verruca vulgaris’ which means: vulgar warts.



Sometimes people confuse warts with moles, pimples, seborrheic keratosis and penile
papules, which are all benign skin conditions.

However, there are some more serious conditions that can be mistaken for warts, like
haemorrhoids or skin cancer.



There are several types of warts depending on the location where they usually appear
and on their shape and size.


Common warts

Common warts appear on hands, top of feet, arms and legs.

They are flesh coloured, white, pink or tan, dome shaped and rough to touch.

Warts are caused by a virus living in the skin. It attaches itself to a blood vessel
which provides it with nutrients. If you take a close look at your wart, you will see
little black dots inside. These dots are clotted blood vessels feeding the wart.


Common warts are usually growing on
hands and fingers.


Flat warts

Flat warts appear on face, neck and body.

They are small and smooth, round or oval in shape and often appear in large
numbers.

Children often develop them on the face, grown men may find them within a beard
and women may develop them on legs.


Flat warts growing on the face sometimes
have hair growing from them.


Plantar warts

Plantar warts always appear on the side or on the bottom of a foot.

They are called ‘plantar’ because the bottom of the foot is called plantar area.

They are usually painful because of the body weight pressing down on them.


Plantar warts

A plantar wart is always bigger than what you can see.

Press it down and you should be able to see a yellowish area on your foot which is
the area of the whole wart.


Plantar warts in diferent stages of
development


Genital warts

Genital warts appear in the moist tissues of the genital area and mouth and they
are spread through sexual contact.

They are in the form of tiny, soft, flesh coloured bumps.

Some of them can be hard and rough and can also develop stalks.

Others grow in clusters, in the form of small cauliflowers.


Genital warts

They are often tiny and difficult to discover in the first place.

Genital warts are highly contagious.

The virus causing them can be transmitted onto another person even before the
warts have formed and for a certain period of time after they have been removed.


Genital warts in diferent stages of
development

Periungual warts

Periungual warts grow on hands and toes, around nails.

They are painful and very stubborn.

Usually a number of treatments is needed before they are completely removed.

People who bite, tear or pick on their nails are particularly prone to these warts
because the virus can easily invade through broken skin.


If you have a periungual wart, refrain from biting your nails because
you may spread it on other fingers.


Filiform warts

Filiform warts appear around the eyes, on face, neck, mouth, lips and under the
arms.

They are long, narrow and protruding because they are made of up of long stalk-
like skin growths.

They can be easily damaged with razors or towels when drying the skin and may
cause itching and bleeding. Bleeding will further spread them onto surrounding
skin.


Filiform warts in diferent stages of development


How to protect yourself from wart infection?
The best way to protect yourself from HPV virus is to fortify your immune system so that
even if you do come in contact with the virus, you will not be infected.

You will build strong immune system by consuming lots of fresh fruit and vegetables and by
drinking lots of water.

Try to have enough sleep so that your body can rest after daily strains and stress.

Exercise will do miracles for your immune system. No matter how busy you are you should
spend at least half an hour walking each day.

Spend at least half an hour a day exposed to fresh air and sun light.

Vitamins A, E and C and Propolis will also help your immune system stay strong and
impenetrable.

Stay healthy and beautiful
Yours,
Bo Weber

PICTURE CREDITS:
Plantar warts pictures
Source: Wikimedia
Authors: Marionette, Jay Moore aka Dewdude
Genital warts pictures
Source: Wikimedia
Authors: SOA-AIDS Amsterdam, Rrreeewww
Filiform warts pictures
Source: Wikimedia
Author: Schweintechnik
Common, flat and periungual warts pictures
Purchase from: Shutterstock.com
Username: hilandarska14


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