Wart Removal

A wart is a small, hard and rough bulge on your skin that may occur anywhere on your body and they are most commonly found on hands and fingers. Warts may or may not require treatment as they normally disappear after few months but mat last forever or reoccur. The main cause of wart is a viral infection particularly by the human papillomavirus (HPV). Warts are of different types depending on the location and cause but they are not transferable between species. The wart looks like reddish brown lump, or the same color of your skin.

Removal of wart is not a time consuming process. It involves a small risk of infection while performing a surgical process to remove wart. They are numerous ways to remove warts but the two most common techniques to remove wart are electrocautery (burning the wart) and cryotherapy (freezing the wart). Both the ways involve little bit of pain but the treatment takes 15 to 30 minutes only.

Electrocautery involves burning the wart by inserting a thin, needle like, hot tip to the wart whereas cryotherapy involves freezing the wart by applying a cold fluid such as liquid nitrogen and then removing the dead skin after the tissue has been completely destroyed. While taking electrocautery treatment, be sure to tell the doctor if you wear a pacemaker. Also, the wart doesn't drop but it takes 2 to 4 weeks to drop by itself. If your pain increase or you develop swelling over the wart affected area and the wart is not completely removed or it reappears then consult the doctor immediately.

The above techniques may or may not be successful and risk is involved in using such techniques and they may or may not be dangerous. So, you have to decide what technique to use?