How to remove a wart on the face: from potatoes to the surgical table



Papilloma causes tremendous discomfort, and its appearance immediately worsens the mood and lowers the self-esteem of the person: it is embarrassing to look at yourself in the mirror or go out. Safe removal of warts is a must, because if you do something wrong, the scars will remain for the rest of your life.

A wart is not a precursor of cancer, so it cannot develop into a malignant tumor. Her treatment is necessary only to eliminate discomfort.



In order to choose the right method of treatment for papilloma, you first need to determine the reasons for its occurrence, because a lot depends on it.

• It is most likely that a human papillomatosis virus has entered the body.
• It is also possible that a wart appeared on the face due to non-compliance with the rules of personal hygiene: you did not wash your hands after a walk on the street, itching constantly, often spend time with animals.
• In addition to these most common causes, there are other, less common, such as metabolic disorders, decreased immunological activity, vegetative neurosis, acrocyanosis, or frequent stress.

The incubation period lasts from 2 to 5 months from the day of infection.

How to remove a wart on the face?



• Cutting the wart with a razor or other tools yourself is strictly prohibited. This will only help the virus infection to spread through the body with the help of blood, and you will only get a big infection and the appearance of more and more new warts on the face and on other parts of the body.
• The doctor will determine the most effective method for treating warts, so in any case it is better to go to a hospital or a beauty center to remove a tumor. For example, hanging papillomas (the name of warts, which are used by doctors) effectively disappear immediately after the application of laser therapy , and viral easily burned with nitrogen.

What can a dermatologist advise on how to remove a facial wart:



• Treatment with a laser, with the help of which the doctor will remove the internal growths that will make it impossible for the wart to appear again. In most cases, after the laser treatment of warts on the face remain scars.
• Cryotherapy , but this method of treatment is possible only if the warts are small. The procedure is that the education on your face will be frozen. Cryotherapy lasts no more than 3 minutes in order not to bring the body to a state of hypothermia, since temperatures sometimes reach as high as −130 degrees.
• Treatment with radio waves apparatus Surgitron . In this case, the growths will disappear after 1 session. Among doctors, this method is considered the safest for the body.
• Treatment with retinoids , substances that contain large amounts of vitamin A. It helps the body to quickly dissolve fat and, thereby, gradually remove the warts on the face.
• Surgical intervention is rarely used today (especially when it comes to the face), but still the doctor may advise this method of treatment. After surgery, a suture is applied to the wound. After surgery, a visible scar will remain on the face. Genital warts are treated only surgically.
• Treatment with special patches with keratolytic agents, that is, with the use of lactic or salicylic acid. After such a procedure, there will be no scars on your face, but the treatment course is a little long - 8 weeks.
• Drugs that are substitutes for the method of cryotherapy . In such preparations, instead of liquid nitrogen, a special cooling mixture is used, which maintains a temperature of about −52 degrees. When applying such a procedure, the wart will disappear from the face in 10-14 days, and in its place healthy skin will form.

Only a doctor can accurately determine the effective treatment for you.

Removal of facial warts using popular methods

You can get rid of warts not only in a hospital or a beauty salon, but also yourself at home with the help of folk remedies. Sometimes such procedures are even more effective than treatment in special institutions, but still you put your body at risk, because you do not know how effective this or that method will be for your skin and what consequences may occur in the future.

Admirers of traditional medicine when removing warts on the face are advised to use such proven methods:

• Daily wiping the wart with a strong extract of wormwood. This method is considered one of the most effective of all folk remedies. The course of treatment will last up to 2 weeks.
• At night, make compresses from onions . To do this, cut into thin slices onion of medium size, put the plates in a glass, pour vinegar into about a third of its volume, leave it at room temperature for 1-2, then attach the bulbs to the place of the wart.
• A wart can also be steamed out by wetting a cotton pad in hot water and applying it to papilloma.
• Hydrogen peroxide will also help remove the wart on the face . Use 30% of the composition for applying a cotton swab on the place of education. It is recommended to do 2-3 times a day, leave the tampon on the skin for 2-3 hours.
• You can grind one clove of garlic with salt , then attach the mixture to the formation and cover it all with cling film. It is important to remember that as soon as you feel a burning sensation on the skin of the face, immediately remove the product, wash it off and lubricate the skin with a nourishing cream. The tool is very effective, but can be harmful if used improperly or overexposed "gruel" on the skin of the face.
• Apply daily to the place where the wart appeared, gruel with a pounded clove of garlic mixed with honey, until the formation disappears. It is better to do such procedures before bed all night.
• Small warts can also be removed with potatoes . Grate it on a fine grater along with the peel. Put the puree on your face until it is completely dry. Repeat the procedure twice a day (in the morning and in the evening), and the warts will soon disappear.
• For the information of warts, you can also try this recipe: peel a medium-sized bulb and put in vinegar for two hours. After extraction, tie it to the wart. Instead of insisting, you can simply boil the onion in vinegar.

Scientists have proven that today there is no way to 100% get rid of warts on their face or other parts of the body, because the virus can be stored very deep in human skin and if it is reactivated, a wart may appear on the body again (it is possible that it will happen in the same place). To reduce the chances of reactivation of the virus, it is very important to observe prevention: to protect the skin from any kind of damage, exercise, maintain a healthy lifestyle, eat right, be sure to strengthen your immune system and regularly consult a dermatologist.