Warts - part II
These are some treatments that can be prescribed by your dermatologist:
- Keratolysis, removal of dead surface skin cells usually using salicylic acid, blistering agents, immunomodulators, or formaldehyde, often with mechanical peel of the wart.
- Cryosurgery, which involves freezing the wart (with liquid nitrogen), creating a blister between the wart and epidermal layer, after which the wart falls off.
- Surgical curettage.
- Laser treatment using vascular laser (example: Dye Laser).
- Imiquimod, a topical cream that helps the body’s immune system fight the wart virus.
- Cantharidin, it can causes dermal blistering.
The wart can regrows after the skin has healed.
Your dermatologist can prescribe topical treatments containing salicylic acid to mantain the treatment at home.
I do not recomend you to use any medication without medical advice.
Best wishes from Brazil!
Dr. Érica Monteiro - Cosmetic Dermatologist
www.dermatologia.com.br
Tags: skin disease, wart
September 7th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Thanks for the interesting blog entries! Fortunately, I don’t have any current issues with warts. I am just wondering if there is anything you recommend OTC for plantar warts?
I had one as a teenager which disappeared on it’s own. (I was swimming daily in a heavily chlorinated pool at the time — don’t know if that helped.) One of my kids had our late dermatologist freeze hers off in 2 treatments (which kind of freaked her out, at the time).
Thanks,
Jane in Farmington, CT