Warts are widespread among people. According to the latest data, the papillomavirus infected more than half of the world's population. Warts can be easily removed with home remedies. So you will find the most popular and effective folk 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.
Transmission of infection occurs directly from person to person, through household items and self-implantation (comb, etc. ). Sweat, minor skin injuries, mental trauma contribute to the development of the disease. The gestation period is 4-5 months.
Differentiate warts normal (simple, vulgar), flat (juvenile) and pointed (pointy condyloma).
Common warts are firm, painless, rounded nodules 3–10 mm in diameter, their surface is rough, the color is normal skin or grey-brown.
Their favorite location is the back of the hands and fingers, face, scalp. If the warts are localized on the feet, so-called plantar warts, the patient may feel pain when walking.
Flat (young) warts - small, 0. 5–3. 0 mm nodules, flesh-colored or yellowish, rounded, with a smooth flat surface, which barely protrude beyond the surface of the skin. Locally on the face and back of the hands.
Genital warts are pointed, grow quickly, coalesce and look like a rooster's comb or cauliflower. The color of these warts ranges from light to bright pink. They are usually located in the groin and digestive tract, near the anus, on the genitals. Their development is facilitated by chronic irritation and inoculation in the skin.
Types of warts
There are several types of warts:
- common warts- These are rather dense nodules with a rounded shape with a rough surface. The size is 3-10 mm in diameter. Their favorite habitat is the back of the hand, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappear on the soles of the feet. Plantar warts, unlike normal warts, are painful and consist of bundles of filamentous papillae, which is a roll of powerful horny layers around. It looks like a grain, 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. Their color is either the same as the skin or with a yellowish tint. The surface is very flat, smooth. Usually occurs on the face and back of the hands. Most common in school children.
- Genital warts- This is a special type of wart. They are treated by urologists, gynecologists and gynecologists.
How to treat this disease? There are two methods of dealing with warts: folk remedies and fighting through magic. Let's talk about folk remedies, here are some home treatment options.
Why you need to get rid of warts
The reason for the appearance of cosmetic defects on the hands and other parts of the body is their "contagiousness". Having entered 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, there may bethat the virus carrier has no manifestations. As a rule, HPV spreads in the surface layers of the skin.
HPV is transmitted from mother to unborn child, as well as through damage to the skin. They can be infected in a public bath, when they visit the pool. Penetration is easier due to excessive dryness or moisture in the skin, lack of capillary blood.
It turns out that the habit of biting nails is one of the reasons why warts appear on the hands. The need to get rid of warts on the face is often caused by mechanical damage caused by shaving, epilepsy, peeling, when more opportunities are created to enter the virus.
If the body's defenses weaken and regular measures are not taken to strengthen immunity, the chances of these cosmetic defects also increase.
Despite the good characteristics of a skin tumor, the cell of the body, where the papillomavirus has changed its DNA, can become the source of a malignant tumor, especially in advanced cases. The viral gene is often found in tumor cells. As a general rule, an inspection is sufficient to make a diagnosis. In the case of internal lesions - 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 noticed that the chances of infection increase:
- when taking birth control pills that reduce immunity;
- during pregnancy, when immunity is also reduced;
- with violations in the body on a hormonal background;
- many women who have given birth.
Conventional and non-conventional treatments
There are many ways to treat warts - both conventional and non-conventional.
The doctor may suggest diathermocoagulation, freezing with liquid nitrogen and all kinds of lubrication. Perhaps no skin disease is treated with alternative methods as widely as warts.
Often the best treatment for warts is to leave them alone. In most patients, the immune system 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 steaming wormwood, ginger root begins to release antiviral compounds.
You can also try homeopathic medicines.
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 self-inducing training: sit comfortably in an armchair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. Imagineno matter how the warts disappear Effects on the extrasensory level are very effective.
How to get rid of warts at home
Since it is much more convenient to get rid of warts at home than in a medical institution, many people prefer to use various folk remedies. Despite the fact that these methods often give a positive result, they must be used with caution, since what helped one patient may harm another. In addition, with the careless use of aggressive substances - for example, vinegar - often a burn occurs, after which a scar remains.
Not all types of warts should be treated at home. Sufficiently reliable and safe folk remedies can only get rid of simple and flat varieties. One effective way to remove a wart at home is to treat it with one or another aggressive substance. Many people are helped in the simplest of ways.
For example, in the case of young formations, 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 surrounding skin is treated with petroleum jelly to prevent burns. After several operations, the tissues begin to turn black and die off, they are regularly cut with nail scissors. After the procedure is completed, the scissors should be kept in the flame for a short time.
Effective, but rather long-term removal of warts with folk remedies is carried out with onion or garlic juice. After applying the juice, you need to wait a little until it is completely absorbed. To ensure the elimination of the defect, it is necessary to treat it for several weeks.
In the evening, compresses can be made 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 skin and make a compress from the resulting pit overnight. It is possible to get rid of a wart in this way within a month. If the potatoes start to sprout, scoop out half a cup of sprouts, fill to the top with water and put on a low heat. When half of the water boils away, remove the mug from the heat. Lubricating the affected area once a day with the accepted 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, 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 is fixed at night. The procedure is repeated until the defect is completely gone.
To get rid of the formation on the skin, you need to steam it well and attach a piece of propolis. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. People getting rid of warts is carried out with crushed Kalanchoe leaves. Compressors are installed at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective way to infuse wormwood. Brew 3 tbsp. l. dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Apply compresses until they are completely removed.
Folk medicine
Especially popular among the people are recipes with potatoes, apples and other products that were used many millennia ago.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, rub the wart with each half separately, then put them together and bury them in the garden.
- Cut a raw potato into 12 parts, rub the wart on each part for a minute, then "collect" the potato, tie it in a thin cloth and throw it in the manure. When the potatoes rot, the wart will disappear.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Throw one half over your head and rub the other half over the wart, then bury it in a dry place. When the buried part of the potato dries out or rots, the wart disappears.
- Take a silk thread and tie a knot over each wart in the ceiling. Then hide this thread in a cut potato and bury it so no one knows this place.
- Cut a sour 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 disappear.
- Cut the apple into two parts with a hard thread. Grate the warts with both halves of the apples, then put them together and tie with the same thread. Buried in the ground.
- On a new moon, take a stick with a knot, cut it smooth, and rub the wart with this spot for two minutes, looking at the moon. The wart will disappear after a few days.
- Tie as many knots on a thread as there are warts, bury this thread in the ground. When the thread rots, the warts 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 the warts with fresh juice of sour apples for ten days. After 10 days the warts disappear.
- Apply a bandage with mashed leaves of Kalanchoe (house plant) on the warts. After a day, change the bandage to a new one. After a week, the warts should be gone.
- Urine therapy. Soak the warts with your own urine twice a day.
- Moisten the warts with water and then rub with ammonia, which should make them disappear quickly.
- Every night before going to bed, apply 1 drop of acetic acid to each wart, after applying petroleum jelly to the surrounding skin, as the acid is very caustic. Improper 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 with a red woolen cloth. Change bandages every three days. Repeat three times. You can't get your hands wet.
- Take a thin wooden stick, hold the end over the fire and roast the wart. Repeat several times. After a week, the wart will fall off.
- Dilute wood ash with water to a consistency like thick sour cream. Lubricate the resulting slurry daily. Such recipes in some cases can not only help, but also harm, as there is a possibility of infection in the damaged skin area.
- Drip juice of aloe, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja twice a day on the wart. The warts will be gone in a week.
- Willow bark helps: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. "("Salerno health rules", XIV century).
- Ground cornflower seeds, mix with margarine. The resulting ointment is applied to the wart and placed in a bandage. 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 traditional healers
Reducing warts in an apple or potato (they must have protrusions or tubercles resembling a wart in shape; only in this case you can get a 100% positive effect). Cut an apple or potato in half (it is recommended to do this with a strong thread). With the half on which the protrusion is visible, rub the warts (in some cases it is recommended to rub with both halves). Then connect the halves together and tie them with the thread that was cut. Bury an apple or potato in the ground, away from your home. When they rot, the warts disappear.
On a silk thread, knots are tied in the air over each wart while saying, "You can't live here. You shouldn't be here. My word is firm, unyielding. "Hide the thread in a freshly cut potato and bury it in the ground so no one knows. When the potatoes rot, the warts disappear. In some cases, just burying a thread is enough.
Find a stem with a root from a cut ear of corn or field. Poke the warts several times with the tip of the straw, with a conspiracy or prayer. After that, immediately bury the straw in a moist place with the root up. When the straw rots, the warts disappear.
Wang's advice. Pick up a spur (grass), dry it, grind it into a powder and sprinkle it on the wart.
One woman reduced her granddaughter's warts by applying mosquito repellent ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an ancient "summer" method for reducing warts. It is necessary to catch the grasshopper and hold it by its hind legs and let it "bite" the wart. The grasshopper secretes an iodine-like liquid from its mouth that has wart-killing properties. If you have several warts, it is enough to show just one. After about a weekother warts disappear completely.
Fill a vial with a capacity of 30-40 ml tightly with chopped onion peel, pour 9% vinegar. Insist for 10-15 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. In the resulting solution, wet gauze or cotton cloth and apply to the wart, preferably at night. They say that after such treatment warts disappear in 3-5 days.
There is a simple old way to reduce warts with mushrooms. All mushrooms are suitable for this purpose and in any form: fresh, pickled, salted and dried (before soaking). Attach the mushroom to the wart at night and fix it, cover it with cellophane or wax paper on top. After a few treatments, the warts disappear.
Disease prevention
And now there are some tips to prevent this disease:
- Follow the rules of personal hygiene.
- Eat a healthy diet rich in vitamins A, C and E to strengthen your immune system.
- Avoid stress and learn to relax.
- Put fresh oak leaves in your shoes instead of insoles.
Senile warts
Their appearance is not related to a viral infection. They appear in elderly and elderly patients, they look like a flat, sharply demarcated plaque 0. 5–2. 0 cm in size, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered with loose, fat-saturated angular mass.
Senile warts are more often localized on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, on the tail. If these warts are subjected to frequent trauma, they may show a tendency to malignant transformation.
These warts do not require treatment. Avoid injury to them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed by diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- Squeeze the juice from the freshly cut sundew round grass, lubricate the warts twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days the warts disappear.
- Lubricate the warts with fresh milk juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Scrape the wart with clean chalk (no dirt), pour more chalk on top, tie it off.
- 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.