Treatments for Warts

Treatment list for Warts: The list of treatments mentioned in various sources for Warts includes the following list. Always seek professional medical advice about any treatment or change in treatment plans.

• No treatment - some warts are neither harmful nor embarrassing
• Watchful waiting - some warts disappear without treatment.
• Chemical cautery
• Crysurgery
• Laser surgery
• Electrocautery
• Surgery
• Over-the-counter wart treatments - although results are uncertain; your doctor usually has better options.
• Treatment of only some warts - it is common for other warts to disppear once a few are successfully treated.

Treatment of Warts: medical news summaries: The following medical news items are relevant to treatment of Warts:

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Treatments of Warts discussion: Warts are skin growths caused by viruses. They are sometimes painful and, if untreated, may spread. Since over-the-counter preparations rarely cure warts, see your doctor. A doctor can apply medicines, burn or freeze the wart off, or take the wart off with surgery.¹

Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Foot Care - Age Page - Health Information: NIA

Last revision: June 24, 2003

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