Wart Treatment

If you have a wart it is most likely that you will have caught it from a communal floor such as a swimming pool or changing room but it could just as easily have been at ho

Methods Used in the Treatment of Warts:

Chemical Treatment

Most common treatment method used
Salicylic acid is the acid of choice
The acid causes peeling of skin
The podiatrist will also cut skin with his scalpel
This method can become very expensive due to frequent consults

Cold Treatment

Liquid Nitrogen is commonly used
Multiple applications may be necessary.
Follow up weekly for cryotherapy treatments until the wart resolves.
Can be painful as it is designed to destroy dermal tissues.
Redness and blistering of skin may develop.

Electro-Cautery

Remove a wart using electricity
Contra-indicated when pasient has a pacemaker
Leaves a wound that takes 1 - 6 weeks to heal
May need to be treated more than once
Can be very painful

Other

This is methods like laser and Chemotherapy

Preferred Method in this Practice -
Falknor Method/ Dry-needling

During the treatment the goal is to cause an immune response

Local anaesthetic is used in this procedure

Please do not use any anti-inflammatory medication
this is contra indicated in this treatment

The way dry needling works is to push
verruca cells from the epidermis through into the dermis and hypodermis or adipose layer
thereby inoculating the underlying tissue

This triggers an immune response, the appropriate antibodies are produced

Over the
subsequent weeks the verruca undergoes a natural deterioration before ultimately
disappearing.