Daijiworld News Network – Udupi / Manipal (VM)

Mangalore, Nov 22: A free wart check up programme will be held between Nov 23 to 29 at Kasturba Hospital here.

According to Dr Balachandran, professor and head, Department of Skin and STD Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, there are many procedures for the removal of warts like Electro cautery, Chemical cautery, Cryotherapy, etc. But sometimes, new warts appear as fast as old ones go away. This may happen because the old warts have shed virus into the surrounding skin before they were treated.

In reality new ‘baby’ warts grow around the original ‘mother’ warts. The best way to limit this is to treat new warts as quickly as they develop so they have little time to shed virus into nearby skin.

Warts can occur in people of all ages, but occur most commonly in children and young adults. Warts on the skin may be passed to another person when that person touches the warts. It is also possible to get warts from using towels or other objects that were used by a person who has warts.

Warts on the genitals are very contagious and can be passed to another person during a sexual intercourse. The complications of Warts include: spread of warts, return of warts that disappeared and minor scar formation. Most warts can be treated with simple remedies. For those that are resistant to these measures, other types of treatments are effective.

The most common types of warts are Common Warts, Foot Warts, Flat Warts, Genital Warts, Subungual and periungual Warts and Filiform Warts.