Genital Wart Treatments

Genital warts are an embarrassing and common problem. Millions of people have genital warts, yet many go untreated. Often, people feel embarrassed by a visit to their doctor.

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Warts are an age-old problem that can be a source of great concern and embarrassment. Warts are benign skin tumors produced by infection with any of several types of human papillomavirus (HPV). This infection is passed from one person to another.

Common warts (skin-colored, hard bumps often found on fingers) and flat warts (small, flat spots most frequently found on the backs of hands and the lower legs) are generally transmitted by casual contact and are difficult to prevent.

Plantar warts (on the bottom, or plantar surface, of the foot) can be partially avoided by wearing shoes in public places or anywhere people with plantar warts may have walked barefoot.

Anogenital warts (condylomata acuminata) are most often sexually transmitted, although children can contract them during birth through an infected birth canal or from the hands of caregivers. Adults can minimize the risk of infection with genital HPV by using a condom, although abstinence is the most reliable means of avoiding genital wart infection.

A wart is a virus classified within the Human Papilloma Viruses (HPVs), which represent a group of more than 100 types of wart viruses. Warts can grow on all parts of your body. Some types of HPV tend to cause warts on the skin, while other HPV types tend to cause warts on the genitals and rectal area. Also plantar warts, body warts, anal warts, venereal warts, molluscum contagiosum.

Because no medications currently available eradicate the virus itself, there are no cures for HPV infection. Aggressive or prolonged therapies usually produce long-lasting or permanent eradication of the wart tumor, yet the wart virus may linger for years in normal-appearing skin in a dormant form.

Most wart treatments eliminate the virus by destroying the skin that contains the virus. The subsequent disappearance of the wart may occur because the virus was removed as the destroyed skin sloughs, or because the disruption of cells and release of the virus stimulates the patient’s immune system to eradicate the virus. The only patients whose infections are truly cured are probably those whose immune system recognize and eliminate the virus. Patients with immune system deficiencies due to HIV infection, cancer, or medications such as cortisones, usually experience regrowth of warts following treatment.

The most common treatment for warts are those that physically destroy the skin. The choice for treatment depends partially upon the location of the wart, and the success of treatment depends upon the location and number of warts, the number of treatments, and the aggressiveness of the caregiver. The common treatments include: salicylic acid; liquid nitrogen; laser surgery or electrocautery (electric needle); cantharidin; trichloroacetic and bichloroacetic acids; and interferon alpha.