subject: Juvenile Warts - Their Qualities And Their Treatment [print this page] Juvenile warts (known as flat warts) are nothing more than a benign tumor that causes little or no physical harm. Juvenile warts most frequently affect young children and teenagers. You can find them on a youngster's face, arms, hands, and knees.
HPV or the human papilloma virus is usually the cause for these warts. This virus enjoys warm, moist settings. They're often found on bathroom floors and areas around a swimming pool.
It finds its way into the body through small cuts. To limit your exposure to the human papilloma virus, wear footware when walking around public showers or swimming pools.
Contagious, the human papilloma virus can be spread from one individual to another. Occasionally, a person can be a carrier of this virus for quite a long time until it turns into an actual wart. This means there is no way to tell when the virus was actually contracted.
Even though juvenile warts are not at all dangerous and have extremely little risk for causing other medical problems, they do tend to multiply in number. Therefore they must be attended to promptly, also another vital reason for treating them is that they may cause issues with the self-confidence of the child or teen.
You can get many treatments for warts at your local drug store. The truth is, most of them do not really work. While these may kill the wart, it may reappear later. There are wart removers than can be harmful to the surrounding skin.
You can also use electrosurgery, cryosurgery or laser therapy to kill the juvenile wart.
The process that uses heated needles to kill warts is called Electrosurgery. Anesthesia is used to dull the pain during this process. This method of removal often leaves a scar.
A juvenile wart can be medically frozen and removed, a process called cryosurgery. Generally, an anesthesia is applied; you may need more than one session to completely remove the same wart.
Laser therapy involves directing a powerful beam of light to the wart to 'burn' it. This method can become expensive, especially if you have multiple warts.
Alternative and home treatments for warts are available that may effectively get rid of your juvenile warts. Although some methods don't work well, others are actually quite effective and have been used for many years.
