Flat warts are small rounded skin lesions that protrude slightly above the skin. Their diameter is small (rarely exceeds 5 mm). The color of flat warts most often does not differ from the skin color, only sometimes they can be brownish or yellowish. There are such formations on any parts of the body, as whole groups, and one by one.
How to treat flat warts?
Flat warts on the face and body can be removed with a laser. This is a highly effective method, since the probability of scar formation on the skin after its application is very low. Laser removal is performed under anesthesia (local) and lasts only a couple of minutes. Usually, one procedure is enough to get rid of the warts forever.
Remove flat warts on the hands, feet, neck or face can be and with the help of cryodestruction (moxibustion with liquid nitrogen). This method is very popular, because after the completion of treatment on the skin almost never remain scars. To such pathological formations disappeared forever, it may take 3-4 procedures.
Do you have contraindications for cryodestruction or use of a laser? Warts are a large patch of skin? Then remove the warts you need surgically. Operative intervention is not carried out often, since a visible scar may remain on the site of the wart.
What drugs can remove flat warts?
If you have flat warts, treatment can be carried out with the help of various medications. For example, salicylic acid copes well with such a problem. She is smeared with education until they die.
For the treatment of flat warts on the hands, feet and other parts of the body can be used drugs, which are based on caustic acetic acid, plant extracts, copper nitrate. They have a pronounced necrotizing effect. The most effective means are:
- Solkoderma - this solution cauterizes the wart, it mummifies and disappears in a few days.
- Verrukatsid - this solution acts through the coagulation of proteins. After its use on the same place, warts will no longer appear.
- Condilin - causes necrosis by formation, due to the podophyllotoxin entering into its composition.
To conduct treatment of flat warts on the face, you can use keratolytics. This means, "melting" the fabric. To this group is the Kolomak solution. It has not only keratolytic, but also antiseptic and anti-inflammatory effects. This medicine is used even when treating children's warts.
Antiviral drugs for the treatment of flat warts
Almost all the above methods of treating flat warts do not eliminate the virus itself, which causes their appearance. That is why most patients have relapses. To avoid this, the affected areas of the skin need to be treated with antiviral agents, for example, Viru-Merz ointment.
In addition to external means, for treatment you need to use drugs that have an antiviral effect on the entire body - vitamin complexes and immunomodulating drugs based on the plant extract of echinacea:
- Immunex;
- Medzivin, etc.
Treatment of flat warts by folk methods
To treat flat warts at home, you can use folk methods. Some of the most effective are such recipes:
- Cut the raw potatoes in half and rub them warts 4 times a day.
- Squeeze the juice from the leaves of scarlet and wipe them with the formation 2 times a day.
- Burn several matches without sulfur heads, grind the ashes into fine powder, add a few drops of water and rub her warts.