plantar warts
In few other areas of medicine is the use of folk tradition as widespread as in the treatment of warts. Since warts frequently regress on their own and because they are the most common infection of the skin, it is not surprising that large numbers of folk cures developed over time. For example, it was thought that warts are were transmitted by having a close encounter with a toad. Other folk remedies included rubbing the warts with green alder stick or with potato and attending wart shrines as was done for many years in Japan. Some modern treatments have applied changes in diet, as in the use of various amino acid supplements. The truth of the matter is certain procedures may help treat warts, but there is no magic cure. "Plantar warts or papliomas of the sole are very common. They can occur on any part of the foot, but when localized under areas of pressure, they give rise to tenderness and localized pain" (Coughlin and Mann 1995). In general plantar warts are pearly white with a center that shows tiny spots of black, brown or red. They can be found as a single lesion or as a cluster that is grouped together and referred to as a mosaic wart. Sometimes there's a larger wart with surrounding smalle
es it to blister, which allows for the wart to be peeled away in layers until only the bottom layer remains. A final application of the liquid nitrogen is made and the last layer of the wart and hopefully the virus is then peeled away. The only problem with this treatment is that it is only effective about 65% of the time. The newest method of removing warts is by laser surgery. This technique hardly causes any discomfort when removing warts, as long as it is used by somebody who knows what they are doing. The laser is a clear CO2 beam which is absorbed by water. The doctor performing this procedure takes advantage of this high moisture content in the cell that need to be destroyed, by heating them up and causing them to evaporate. The cells just vanish in a mist of steam. During this process there is almost no heat transmission to the adjacent cells meaning that this procedure causes little or no harm to the adjacent cells. The advantages of this procedure over all ! Pritt, Donald and Walter, Morton. (1992). The Complete Book: first aid for your feet. Garden City Park, New York: Avery Publishing Group Inc. most involved in sports and in infected facilities. different ways of contracting the virus such as, walking in a locker room or on the deck of a Schneider, Myles, D.P.M. & Sussman, Mark, D.P.M.. (1986). The Family Foot Care Book. Washington D.C.: Acropolis Foot Books, Ltd.
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