Warts are small dermal neoplasms, which are proliferations of the epithelium in the form of a flat seal, papilla or nodule. This disease is a problem of an aesthetic nature, because warts on the face can seriously affect a person's self-esteem.
The causes of the appearance of warts on the face
Since ancient times there has been a belief in Russia that if you touch the toad, warts will appear. In fact, these harmless amphibians have nothing to do with warts. The cause of the appearance of unpleasant growths on the skin is the human papillomavirus (HPV), and infection occurs through damaged skin (scratches, abrasions).
Since the incubation period can be several months, during which the virus will slowly multiply or doze in the body, many people do not even know their virus carrier. Warts on the face or other parts of the body can appear even after 8 months. The stimulus to their formation is weak immunity and nervous stresses. Accordingly, to get rid of warts on the face helps tonic therapy.
Types of warts on the face
About 70% of all cases of this disease are common warts , or vulgar. These are slightly dense, round-shaped formations with a papilliform surface. Their color can be bodily, grayish, light brown, on the face there are not often, usually localized in the area of the lips.
Flat warts are also called adolescent. Like the previous species, it affects mainly children of school age and young people. The surface of flat warts on the face is smooth, they often grow into whole colonies.
Threadlike warts (acrochords) are soft processes with a length of 1 to 4 mm, often on a thin stalk. If they grow together, they look like a cock's scallop. Such warts on the face usually occur on the neck, lips, eyelids in the elderly, during pregnancy or the menopause. Threadlike warts are often traumatized and cut off, and then grow again.
Treatment of warts on the face with modern methods
To kill HPV with antiviral drugs for today is not possible. Treatment of flat warts on the face, as well as other varieties, is carried out locally - by means of pointwise destructive action or surgical removal. To do this, use medicinal "Super Clean", ointment "Collomac", solutions "Ferezol", "Solkoderm" and others. Attention! Without a doctor's consultation, no remedy for warts on the face is recommended!
The most reliable and safe methods for removing warts on the face are:
- Laser - the most modern, hygienic and bloodless method. The procedure is performed under local anesthesia, after it there is a small depression on the skin, which heals within two weeks.
- Electrocoagulation - removal of flat and other warts on the face with high frequency current. It is also a very effective method: fast, painless and practically leaving no traces.
- Cryodestruction (deep freezing with liquid nitrogen). The wart disappears within a few days after cauterization, sometimes a repetition of the procedure is required.
- Surgical excision is rarely used today, and only for the treatment of large warts (not recommended on the face). Always leaves a scar.
How to remove the wart on your face yourself?
The people have a lot of recipes for how to remove warts on the face and body: from chalking up and lubricating with garlic to plots. Not all of them are harmless: often after such self-treatment there are deep scars, burns, and warts degenerate into more dangerous formations. But methods based on suggestion are really very interesting.
Once, when I came to the presenter with a question on how to remove the wart on my face, the "patient" received advice like "tie a knot on a string, touch it with a wart and bury it" or "rub the wart with a potato, which is then discarded in the forest," or else and "mentally send warts after the deceased". Is it funny? But it works!
Modern psychotherapists successfully treat flat warts on the face with hypnosis and visualization. It is enough to imagine how the warts gradually decrease in size and dry up. It's simple: calm self-confidence and no doubt activate the body's immune system, and the trouble disappears by itself, without special treatment.