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Dr. Santosh Yadav (M.D.)
Consultant Homeopath |
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Warts are small, usually painless growths on the skin caused by a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV). Occasionally they itch or hurt (particularly on the feet).
Most of the warts are harmless and may go on their own. They can affect any area of the body but tend to invade warm, moist places, like small cuts or scratches on the fingers, hands and feet. Warts are usually painless unless they are on the soles of feet or any other part of the body that gets bumped or touched all the time.
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They are particularly common in children and teenagers. Generally warts occur in those who are sexually active. There is a balance between the virus and the individual’s immune system. Situations that reduce immunity will make it easier for the warts to spread and the patient becomes more susceptible.
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. |
| Types of Warts or Verruca or Condylomata |
Warts vary in shape and size depending upon the place of occurrence. The types are as follows:
a) Non genital warts : Non genital warts include the following :
b) Common warts (verruca vulgaris) : These are firm, raised, pink or skin-colored lumps with a rough surface that may look like a cauliflower. They usually appear on the hands, but can appear anywhere.
c) Plane warts (verruca plana) : These warts are small (2 to 4 mm wide), smooth, flat-topped or slightly raised. They affect your face, hands, or legs and can occur alone or in groups. They are usually skin-coloured, light brown or greyish, but are sometimes darker.
d) Filiform wart : These are long, slender growths on your lips, eyelids, face or neck. They can often group together to form a cluster.
e) Verruca (plantar warts) : Verrucas are small warts (1 to 10 mm wide) that occur on the soles of your feet, heels or toes. They can be painful when under pressure. They have a rough surface and small black dots can sometimes be seen under the hard skin. Verrucas can be seen alone or in clusters.
f) Mosaic warts : These occur when a number of verrucas group together into a cluster.
g) Periungual or subungual warts : These occur around your nails and are more common if you bite your nails.
h) Genital warts :These are usually found on the genitals, in the pubic area, and in the area between the thighs, but they can also appear inside the vagina and anal canal. They are sexually transmitted. |
| Causes of Warts or Verruca or Condylomata: |
Warts are actually an infection in the top layer of skin, caused by viruses of the human papillomavirus or HPV family. When the virus invades this outer layer of skin, usually through a tiny scratch, it causes rapid growth of cells on the outer layer of skin, creating a wart.
Certain forms of the virus (HPV) are more likely to cause skin warts on the hands. Other forms of HPV are more likely to cause genital warts, although some strains of the virus can cause both
Trauma and maceration facilitate initial epithelial inoculation of the virus. Spread may then occur by autoinoculation.
Local and systemic immune factors appear to influence spread. Immunosuppressed patients are at more risk of developing warts.
People with compromised immune systems, such as those with HIV / AIDS or people who've had organ transplants.
People with a family history of warts. |
| Symptoms of Warts or Verruca or Condylomata |
a) Common warts (verrucae vulgaris) : These common warts typically develop on the hand, especially around the nail. Common warts are gray to flesh colored, raised from the skin surface, and covered with rough, hornlike projections.
b) Flat warts (verrucae plana) : Flat warts are most commonly seen on the face and the back of the hands. They usually appear as small individual bumps about 1/4 inch across. Flat warts may spread rapidly on the face.
c) Genital warts :They are small, flesh-colored or gray swellings in your genital area. Several warts close together that takes on a cauliflower shape. They may cause itching or discomfort in your genital area. They may cause bleeding with intercourse.
d) Plantar warts :They are small, fleshy, grainy bumps on the soles of your feet. They are hard, flat growths with a rough surface and well-defined boundaries. There may be gray or brown lumps with one or more black pinpoints, which are actually small, clotted blood vessels, not "wart seeds”. They interrupt the normal lines and ridges in the skin of your feet. They cause pain or tenderness when walking.
Homeopathic Treatment of Warts or Verruca or Condylomata
Homoeopathy considers a wart as a local expression of a systemic disturbance. Homeopathy believes that skin disorders are a reflection of an internal imbalance and needs to be treated from within.
The homeopathy remedies are selected after a full individualizing examination and case-analysis, which includes the medical history of the patient, physical and mental constitution, genetic predisposition and so on.
Homeopathy helps in correcting the altered immune system of the patient responsible for warts. Proper prescription of homeopathic medicines makes the immune system work more efficiently. Homeopathic constitutional treatment will reinforce the immune system by escalating the number of specialized white blood cells called T-lymphocytes that are vital in the body's defense against HPV assisting in making antibodies, and facilitating in the recognition and rejection of foreign tissues.
Homeopathic remedies work as powerful anti-inflammatory medicines which will help in treating the warts from the root and prevent the further recurrences of the condition.
The beauty of the homeopathic treatment of warts is that the medicines are taken orally and no local applications are applied. Everyone can wonder when an outgrowth falls automatically like a dried leaf of a tree. The flat or plantar warts will go off gradually resuming to the normal skin
Homeopathic treatment of warts may take time as the skin is the outermost part of the body which has less blood supply as compared to the other parts of the body and often get exposed to the irritants, pollutants and environmental changes. So be in patience to get cured or be a patient always.
There are various homoeopathy medicines which give great relief in warts or verruca or condylomata. However, the correct choice and the resulting relief is a matter of experience and right judgment on the part of the homeopathy doctor. The treatment is decided after thorough case taking of the patient. Thus homeopathic remedies of warts or verruca or condylomata are tailor made unlike allopathy in which all patients receive the same surgery or drugs although trade name may be different.. |
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