Natural Drugs Selectively Inhibit Warts Without Harming Host

Most warts do not need to be treated. They generally go away on their own within months or years. This may be because, with time, your immune system is able to destroy the human papilloma virus that causes warts. If you decide to treat your warts, both nonprescription and prescription medicines are available.
Home treatment is often the first treatment used for warts. When done properly, home treatment is usually less painful than surgical treatment. If you are uncertain that a skin growth is a wart, or if you have diabetes, peripheral arterial disease, or other major illnesses that may affect your treatment, it's best to see a health professional. Home treatment includes nonprescription cryotherapy, salicylic acid, tape occlusion, and so on.
Although cryotherapy can be performed in your doctor's office, a type of this treatment for common warts on the hands and feet can be done at home. You spray a combination of two chemicals into a foam applicator and then hold the applicator to the wart for a few seconds. This treatment should not be used for children younger than four or by pregnant or breast-feeding women.
Salicylic acid is currently considered the most desirable wart treatment, based on its effectiveness and safety. It is as effective as or more effective than other treatment, with minimal risk and pain. Salicylic acid is available as a paint, cream, plaster, tape, or patch that you put on the wart. Be sure to follow the specific instructions supplied with the medicine, or follow your doctor's instructions. Salicylic acid may take weeks to months to cure a wart.
Before applying salicylic acid, soak the wart in water to help loosen and soften skin. This helps the medicine penetrate the skin more easily. Apply salicylic acid to the wart when you go to bed. Cover the area with a bandage or sock and wash off the medicine in the morning. Avoid getting salicylic acid on your unaffected skin. Salicylic acid should touch only the wart. With repeated application, salicylic acid causes the wart tissue to become soft so that it can be rubbed off easily.
Remove dead tissue daily or once or twice a week with careful use of a file or pumice stone or as instructed on the medicine package. Dead tissue contains living wart virus, so dispose of the dead skin carefully. The pumice stone or file will also have living wart virus on it. Don't use the file or pumice stone for other purpose, or you may spread the virus. If treatment causes the area to become too tender, stop using the medicine for two to three days.
You can reduce plantar wart pain by doing the following things. Pad the wart with doughnut-shaped felt or a moleskin patch that can be purchased at drugstores. Place the pad around the plantar wart so that it relieves pressure on the wart. Also, consider placing pads or cushions in your shoes to make walking more comfortable. Use nonprescription medicines, such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen, or aspirin to help relieve pain.
Immunotherapy triggers your immune system to destroy the virus causing the wart. Because some of the substances used for immunotherapy are expensive, dangerous, or require specialized handling, such treatment is usually considered only after other methods have failed. Immunotherapy options include contact sensitizers, imiquimod, and interferon. Interferon is an experimental treatment and is used only for severe and treatment-resistant warts.
Wart treatment is not always successful. Even after a wart shrinks or disappears, warts may return or spread to other parts of the body. This is because most treatments only destroy the wart, but do not kill the virus that causes the wart. The antiviral activities of natural drugs are well documented and principally due to their direct effect to eradicate the HPV virus. Natural drugs selectively inhibit the wart virus without harming the host cells.
The extracts in natural drugs have antiviral systemic effect which strengthens immune parameters and helps eradicate viral infections. In addition to their respective specific antiviral properties, these extracts have immunomodulator effects that can enhance the immunological, and cellular defense mechanism. They help to ease symptoms of fogginess and fatigue commonly associated with lower immunity. To learn more, please go to http://www.naturespharma.org.