What is a planters wart?!
Question: What is a planters wart!?
can you get one on the bottom of your foot just to the right of the ball of your foot below where your little toe is, and can it look like a callous!? I have something that looks like a callous and is hard like one!.!.!.but it really HURTS to file it down with a pumice stone!.!.what do you think it is!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
It is estimated that 7-10% of the US population is infected!. Infection typically occurs on moist walking surfaces such as showers, swimming pools, or shoes!. The virus can survive many months without a host, making it highly contagious!.[1][2]
Plantar warts are benign epithelial tumors caused by infection by human papilloma virus types 1, 2, 4, or 63!. These types are classified as clinical (visible symptoms)!. The virus attacks the skin through direct contact, entering through possibly tiny cuts and abrasions in the stratum corneum (outermost layer of skin)!. After infection, warts may not become visible for several weeks or months!. Because of pressure on the sole of the foot, the wart is pushed inward and a layer of hard skin may form over the wart!. A plantar wart may be painful!.[1][3]
Warts may spread through autoinoculation, by infecting nearby skin or by infecting walking surfaces!. They may fuse or develop into clusters called mosaic warts!.[2]
[edit] Diagnosis
Young plantar wartsA plantar wart is a small lesion that appears on the sole of the foot and typically resembles a cauliflower, with tiny black petechiae (abnormal, thrombosed capillaries resembling specks) in the center!. Pinpoint bleeding may occur when these are scratched, and they may be painful when standing or walking!.[2][3]
Plantar warts are often similar to helomata or corns, but can be differentiated by close observation of skin striations!. Feet are covered in skin striae, which are akin to fingerprints on the feet!. Skin striae go around plantar warts; if the lesion is not a plantar wart, the cells' DNA is not altered and the striations continue across the top layer of the skin!. Plantar warts tend to be painful on application of pressure from either side of the lesion rather than direct pressure, unlike helomata (which tend to be painful on direct pressure instead)!.
[edit] Prevention and treatment
Because plantar warts are spread by contact with moist walking surfaces, avoid walking barefoot in public areas such as showers or communal changing rooms!. You should avoid sharing shoes and socks, and avoid direct contact with warts on other parts of the body or on other people!. Humans build immunity with age, so that infection is less common amongst adults than children!.[3]
Once a person is infected, there is no evidence that any treatment eliminates HPV infection or decreases infectivity, and warts may recur after treatment because of activation of latent virus present in healthy skin adjacent to the lesion!. There is currently no vaccine for these types of the virus!. However, treatments are sometimes effective at addressing symptoms and causing remission (inactivity) of the virus!.[2]
The treatment that will be effective in a particular case is highly variable!. The most comprehensive medical review found that no treatment method was more than 73% effective and using a placebo had a 27% average success rate!.[4]
Some treatments that have been found to be effective include:[5]
First-line therapy over the counter salicylic acid
Second-line therapy Cryosurgery, intralesional immunotherapy, or pulsed dye laser therapy
Third-line therapy Bleomycin, surgical excision
Podiatrists and dermatologists are considered specialists in the treatment of plantar warts, though most warts are treated by primary care physicians!.
[edit] Pharmaceutical Treatments
Keratolytic Chemicals
The treatment of warts by keratolysis involves the peeling away of dead surface skin cells with trichloroacetic acid or salicylic acid!.
Immunotherapy
Intralesional injection of antigens (mumps, candida or trichophytin antigens USP) is a new wart treatment which may trigger a host immune response to the wart virus, resulting in wart resolution!. Distant, non-injected warts may also disappear!.
Chemotherapy
Topical application of dilute glutaraldehyde (a virucidal chemical, used for cold sterilization of surgical instruments) is an older effective wart treatment!. More modern chemotherapy agents, like 5-fluoro-uracil, are also effective topically or injected intralesionally!. Retinoids, systemically (eg!. isotretinoin) or topically (tretinoin cream) may be effective!.
As warts are contagious, precautions should be taken to avoid spreading!.
[edit] Surgical
Liquid nitrogen : Cryosurgery with liquid nitrogen!. A common treatment that works by producing a blister under the wart!. It is painful but usually nonscarring!.
Electrodesiccation and surgical excision produce scarring!. If the wart recurs, the patient has a permanent scar along with the wart!.
Lasers may be effective, especially the 585nm pulsed dye laser which the most effective treatment of all, and does not leave scars, but is generally a last resort treatment as it is expensive and painful, and multiple laser treatments are required (generally 4-6 treatments repeated once a month until the wart disappears)!.
[edit] Other
X-ray is an old method that is seldom recommended due to the long term adverse side effects of irradiation!.
Duct tape occlusion therapy: The wart is kept covered with duct tape for six days, then soaked and debrided with a pumice stone!. The process is repeated for 6 to 8 weeks!.[6]
Watchful waiting may be appropriate since many warts will eventually resolve due to the patient's own immune system!. In many cases, the body will attack and kill the wart and verruc? will turn black and effectively fall off, although it can be two years or longer before this takes place!.
[edit] Relative effectiveness of treatments
A 2006 study assessed the effects of different local treatments for cutaneous, non-genital warts in healthy people!.[4] The study reviewed 60 randomized clinical trials dating up to March 2005!. The main findings were:
overall there is a lack of evidence (many trials were excluded because of poor methodology and reporting)!.
the average cure rate using a placebo was 27% after an average period of 15 weeks!.
the best treatments are those containing salicylic acid!. They are clearly better than placebo!.
there is surprisingly little evidence for the absolute efficacy of cryotherapy!.
two trials comparing salicylic acid and cryotherapy showed no significant difference in efficacy!.
one trial comparing salicylic acid and duct tape occlusion therapy showed no significant difference in efficacy!.
evidence for the efficacy of the remaining treatments was limited!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Plantar warts are benign epithelial tumors caused by infection by human papilloma virus types 1, 2, 4, or 63!. These types are classified as clinical (visible symptoms)!. The virus attacks the skin through direct contact, entering through possibly tiny cuts and abrasions in the stratum corneum (outermost layer of skin)!. After infection, warts may not become visible for several weeks or months!. Because of pressure on the sole of the foot, the wart is pushed inward and a layer of hard skin may form over the wart!. A plantar wart may be painful!.[1][3]
Warts may spread through autoinoculation, by infecting nearby skin or by infecting walking surfaces!. They may fuse or develop into clusters called mosaic warts!.[2]
[edit] Diagnosis
Young plantar wartsA plantar wart is a small lesion that appears on the sole of the foot and typically resembles a cauliflower, with tiny black petechiae (abnormal, thrombosed capillaries resembling specks) in the center!. Pinpoint bleeding may occur when these are scratched, and they may be painful when standing or walking!.[2][3]
Plantar warts are often similar to helomata or corns, but can be differentiated by close observation of skin striations!. Feet are covered in skin striae, which are akin to fingerprints on the feet!. Skin striae go around plantar warts; if the lesion is not a plantar wart, the cells' DNA is not altered and the striations continue across the top layer of the skin!. Plantar warts tend to be painful on application of pressure from either side of the lesion rather than direct pressure, unlike helomata (which tend to be painful on direct pressure instead)!.
[edit] Prevention and treatment
Because plantar warts are spread by contact with moist walking surfaces, avoid walking barefoot in public areas such as showers or communal changing rooms!. You should avoid sharing shoes and socks, and avoid direct contact with warts on other parts of the body or on other people!. Humans build immunity with age, so that infection is less common amongst adults than children!.[3]
Once a person is infected, there is no evidence that any treatment eliminates HPV infection or decreases infectivity, and warts may recur after treatment because of activation of latent virus present in healthy skin adjacent to the lesion!. There is currently no vaccine for these types of the virus!. However, treatments are sometimes effective at addressing symptoms and causing remission (inactivity) of the virus!.[2]
The treatment that will be effective in a particular case is highly variable!. The most comprehensive medical review found that no treatment method was more than 73% effective and using a placebo had a 27% average success rate!.[4]
Some treatments that have been found to be effective include:[5]
First-line therapy over the counter salicylic acid
Second-line therapy Cryosurgery, intralesional immunotherapy, or pulsed dye laser therapy
Third-line therapy Bleomycin, surgical excision
Podiatrists and dermatologists are considered specialists in the treatment of plantar warts, though most warts are treated by primary care physicians!.
[edit] Pharmaceutical Treatments
Keratolytic Chemicals
The treatment of warts by keratolysis involves the peeling away of dead surface skin cells with trichloroacetic acid or salicylic acid!.
Immunotherapy
Intralesional injection of antigens (mumps, candida or trichophytin antigens USP) is a new wart treatment which may trigger a host immune response to the wart virus, resulting in wart resolution!. Distant, non-injected warts may also disappear!.
Chemotherapy
Topical application of dilute glutaraldehyde (a virucidal chemical, used for cold sterilization of surgical instruments) is an older effective wart treatment!. More modern chemotherapy agents, like 5-fluoro-uracil, are also effective topically or injected intralesionally!. Retinoids, systemically (eg!. isotretinoin) or topically (tretinoin cream) may be effective!.
As warts are contagious, precautions should be taken to avoid spreading!.
[edit] Surgical
Liquid nitrogen : Cryosurgery with liquid nitrogen!. A common treatment that works by producing a blister under the wart!. It is painful but usually nonscarring!.
Electrodesiccation and surgical excision produce scarring!. If the wart recurs, the patient has a permanent scar along with the wart!.
Lasers may be effective, especially the 585nm pulsed dye laser which the most effective treatment of all, and does not leave scars, but is generally a last resort treatment as it is expensive and painful, and multiple laser treatments are required (generally 4-6 treatments repeated once a month until the wart disappears)!.
[edit] Other
X-ray is an old method that is seldom recommended due to the long term adverse side effects of irradiation!.
Duct tape occlusion therapy: The wart is kept covered with duct tape for six days, then soaked and debrided with a pumice stone!. The process is repeated for 6 to 8 weeks!.[6]
Watchful waiting may be appropriate since many warts will eventually resolve due to the patient's own immune system!. In many cases, the body will attack and kill the wart and verruc? will turn black and effectively fall off, although it can be two years or longer before this takes place!.
[edit] Relative effectiveness of treatments
A 2006 study assessed the effects of different local treatments for cutaneous, non-genital warts in healthy people!.[4] The study reviewed 60 randomized clinical trials dating up to March 2005!. The main findings were:
overall there is a lack of evidence (many trials were excluded because of poor methodology and reporting)!.
the average cure rate using a placebo was 27% after an average period of 15 weeks!.
the best treatments are those containing salicylic acid!. They are clearly better than placebo!.
there is surprisingly little evidence for the absolute efficacy of cryotherapy!.
two trials comparing salicylic acid and cryotherapy showed no significant difference in efficacy!.
one trial comparing salicylic acid and duct tape occlusion therapy showed no significant difference in efficacy!.
evidence for the efficacy of the remaining treatments was limited!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
The word is plantar not planter!. Plantar refers to the bottom of the foot so the only place you can get on IS the bottom of the foot but anywhere as long as it's the bottom!. The particular type of wart may change!. They usually appear as a hard, flat kind of callous with a dark center!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
That sounds exactly like a plantar's wart!. Basically, the wart grows in as well as out (where you're filing it off), causing pretty intense pain when it's under pressure!.
This needs a doctor!. No OTC wart remover gets these!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
This needs a doctor!. No OTC wart remover gets these!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It is called a plantar wart because it is on the plantar surface i!.e!. the sole of the foot!.
The source has some information!. You may want to check with your doctor!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
The source has some information!. You may want to check with your doctor!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Once again, that definitely sounds like a plantar wart!.
It IS possible for it to be removed with over the counter medications though!.!.!. because I had one and that's what I did!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It IS possible for it to be removed with over the counter medications though!.!.!. because I had one and that's what I did!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
ya! I got one two once, at the bottom of my foot and it does hurt!. ya its that kind of wart, and I think u get it if like u go out barefooted a lot but I'm not sure!. and I got these special bandaids for it like regular bandaids but they r special for it and they have a red dot in the center of the padded area!. They r at CVS and places, and they work but use the bandaids until the wart falls out!. They dont hurt eaither and they worked rly well :)Www@Answer-Health@Com