Warts Expert

Contrary to popular belief, you can’t get warts from a frog. Providing warts treatment in Norridge, our experts at AFP Podiatry Norridge explains that warts are actually caused by a viral infection in the top layer of your skin. Warts are non-cancerous, epidermal growths, usually occurring on your hands and feet. Although most common warts appear on your hands and feet, there are many types of warts that can appear all over your body. Warts that occur on your face are known as filiform warts. Genital warts are found on and around male and female genitals and plantar warts are located on the bottom and sides of your feet. There are also warts that are found on areas that are commonly shaved, such as your face and legs, and these are known as flat warts. Warts that infect the skin under and around your fingernails and toenails are called periungal warts.

Even though warts can occur at any age, they are most common in children, young adults and people with immune system deficiencies. Warts are caused by a viral infection known as human papillomavirus, or HPV for short. Presently, our wart experts know that there are over 120 types of HPV circulating in the human population today, and different types of warts are caused by various types of the HPV virus. For instance, the 1 and 3 strains of human papillomavirus are the most common, and more often than not, they are usually the causes when someone develops a common wart. Developing certain types of warts not only depends on the type of HPV, but also on your own immune system. Each person’s immune system reacts differently to HPV, therefore, some people may not develop warts even if they have come in direct contact with the virus. When wart do develop, it’s time to reach out to our compassionate, and discreet experts, regarding warts treatment in Norridge.

Bleomycin, also referred to as bleomycin sulfate, or Blenoxane, is an anti-cancer drug that can be used to remove warts as part of our warts removal treatment in Norridge. When all other wart removal treatments have failed, or if your warts are difficult to remove surgically because they are in a hard to reach location, bleomycin will be recommended. The human papilloma virus that infects the skin and causes the wart to form dies as its DNA is broken up by the bleomycin. In some cases, bleomycin may also target your blood vessels that feed the wart.

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