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Usually, warts are small and rough tumors that present themselves as raised flesh-like substances which are brown or skin colored. Warts are extremely common, yet strangely amongst the most difficult conditions in dermatology to treat and eradicate. Warts can occur on any part of your body and are generally round in shape and can develop in clusters. Although they usually occur on the hands or feet, there are still many types of warts developing on other areas of the body. Warts are named depending on the part of the body where they are located or description of the wart. For example a plantar wart would be a growth on the plantar or bottom part of the foot whereas flat warts are basically flat.
The incidence of HPV infection has increased in the last 35 years, likely the result of earlier age of initial sexual contact and an increased number of sexual partners. The estimated prevalence rate of HPV genital infection in the US adult population is 10%-20%. The prevalence of clinical manifestations of HPV genital infection is much lower than the rate of infection and is estimated to be 1 percent in the sexually active population. This observation holds true even after adjustment for lifetime number of sexual partners, which itself is a significant risk factor for HPV infection. Evidence suggests that at least 75% of sexually active adults have been infected with at least one genital HPV-type at some time.
Genital warts manifest as solitary or clustered, keratotic papules and plaques. They may be flat, or dome-shaped, cauliflower-shaped, or pedunculated. Genital warts can occur on the penis, groin, cervix, urethral meatus, vagina, anus, pubis, and oral cavity. Their contour can be flat, ceribriform, or verrucous and their color white, skin colored, pink, purple, red, or brown. Clinical examination is sufficient to diagnose most external genital warts. Biopsy is seldom necessary to accurately diagnose visible genital warts. Mild acetic acid soaking should not be used routinely to screen patients for genital wart virus infection. Detection and typing of HPV are not currently recommended for diagnosis or management of external genital warts.
Treatment options for genital warts are numerous, well established and effective. Topical treatments include podophyllin resin, imiquimod, trichloroacetic acid, and podophyllotoxin. Surgical or destructive therapies include carbon dioxide laser, surgical excision, loop excision, cryotherapy, and electrodessication. Interferon can be injected locally or administered systemically to treat genital warts. Evidence of efficacy in the treatment of genital warts is drawn from randomized blind-controlled trials, prospective studies, and retrospective cohort studies. Evidence of efficacy appears to be good, but more head-to-head studies and comparisons of combination therapies versus monotherapy need to be done.
Treatment of choice depends on the number, size, and location of lesions. There is little certainty that any approach is more effective than another, however costs differ. It is unclear if combinations of therapies are more effective than monotherapy. Side effect profile, cost, effectiveness and convenience define the choice of therapy. Natural drugs for warts are made from natural materials, widely available with natural chemical compositions and smooth function. Their effectiveness is integral and bidirectional with little side effects; it is not easy to cause pathogenic microorganism to develop drug resistance; harmful residues seldom remain in animal body; and so on.
Natural drugs themselves are natural organics. They are taken from plants, mineral and their products, and preserves nature and bioactivity of various structural constitution. These substances are components of living organisms on the earth and necessary to maintain ecological balance. At the same time, they are useful, harmless and most easily accepted exogenetic essential materials that are selected and left by human and animal's long-term practice. In addition, before these substances are applied to body, profitless factors to organisms are wiped off by natural processing method (water, fire, etc. ) created by the ancient in order to keep their purity.
As is well known, chemical synthetic drugs have a very strong side effects and can cause canceration and malformation to the body, damage of physiological function, and even paralysis and death. While the ingredients of natural drugs are all biological organics and essential materials that are useful and harmless to human and animals selected and left by long-term practice. Natural drugs play an important role in multiplication and prosperity of livestock and human health. To learn more, please go to http://www.naturespharma.org.
