The Wart Family
Warts are small, rough, viral growths on the skin. They are very common and are usually spread by direct skin-to-skin contact or indirectly through shared contact with contaminated surfaces (e.g. swimming pool changing room floors). Although they spread virally and can be unsightly, warts do not usually cause any other symptoms in people with normally functioning immune systems and usually resolve without treatment, although this can take months or years.
Common Warts
Common Warts are firm, raised growths often with a rough, dry, crusty surface, which resemble a very small caulifower or a solid blister. Rough to the touch, common warts may feature a pattern of tiny black dots, which are small, clotted blood vessels.
Diathermy is a safe, effective, quick and affordable method of treatment.
Plane Warts
Plane warts are small, flesh-coloured or pigmented blemishes, very slightly raised, often dry or crusty, flat topped blemishes, which most commonly appear on the decollete.
More frequently occur in children and are rare in adults, although they do frequently appear in organ transplant patients and other people who are immuno-suppressed.
Diathermy is a safe, effective, quick and affordable method of treating plane warts.
Filiform Warts
Filiform warts are long, slender, and usually found on the face and neck. They are a variant of the common wart with the same HPV strains of 1,2,4,27 and 29.
They are particularly receptive to cautery treatment, making diathermy a very efficient, effective treatment.
Verrucae
A verruca (also known as a plantar wart) is a wart on the sole of the foot. A verruca starts as a tiny pink area which may be speckled with black dots and can become dark with a rough crumbly layer of skin with a 'pepper pot' appearance.
Verrucae vary in size from a pin head to a large mosaic verruca covering whole sections of the sole. They are harmless but can become tender and uncomfortable to walk on. These are commonly picked up from communal changing rooms and public swimming pools.
They are notoriously resilient to methods of removal, but diathermy is a safe, effective and efficient way of treating them.
All warts are treated with diathermy but using slightly different methods and techniques.
A full consultation is needed to explain how the treatment works and to go through what to expect during and after treatment.
Warts can take as long as 12 months to see results.
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