_What causes warts: Warts are caused by an infection with the humanpapillomavirus. Their are many different kinds of this virus but only a few cause warts on your hands and others might cause warts on your feet or anywhere else. Although this virus doesn't just cause warts it can also cause cancer.
How are warts spread: You can spread warts by skin to skin contact with other people who have warts, you can also spread the warts on your own body. You can even get warts by simply just touching something that a person with warts touched with their wart. Everyones immune system responds to the humanpapillomavirus differently so even if you do touch someone else with your wart or something like that they still might not get warts.
What are some symptoms of warts: Common warts will most likely be on your hands and fingers, and planter warts will form on your foot area. Starting out both of them might be small rough bumps that are white, pink, or tan. They also may have small black dots in them.
What are some cures or treatments of warts: Most warts will go away without treatment but they take awhile to go away and usually will form more warts. If the warts can't be treated at home by treatments you can find at stores then the doctor can take care of them a couple different ways. You can get the wart cut off but this might not work because it does not get to the root. You can freeze the wart with some liquid nitrogen. This causes a blister under and around the wart but this might not work the first time and may need to do more treatments. If these methods don't work the doctor can also try bichloroacetic acid. This is applied with a wooden toothpick but this has to be repeated over a couple weeks to fully kill the wart.
Interesting facts about warts: Their are more than a hundred types of the humanpapillomavirus. Most everyone has a wart at some point in their life and can develop at any age but are more common for children to get.
Sources: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-warts/basics/causes/con-20021715
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMHT0022704/ _ _
How are warts spread: You can spread warts by skin to skin contact with other people who have warts, you can also spread the warts on your own body. You can even get warts by simply just touching something that a person with warts touched with their wart. Everyones immune system responds to the humanpapillomavirus differently so even if you do touch someone else with your wart or something like that they still might not get warts.
What are some symptoms of warts: Common warts will most likely be on your hands and fingers, and planter warts will form on your foot area. Starting out both of them might be small rough bumps that are white, pink, or tan. They also may have small black dots in them.
What are some cures or treatments of warts: Most warts will go away without treatment but they take awhile to go away and usually will form more warts. If the warts can't be treated at home by treatments you can find at stores then the doctor can take care of them a couple different ways. You can get the wart cut off but this might not work because it does not get to the root. You can freeze the wart with some liquid nitrogen. This causes a blister under and around the wart but this might not work the first time and may need to do more treatments. If these methods don't work the doctor can also try bichloroacetic acid. This is applied with a wooden toothpick but this has to be repeated over a couple weeks to fully kill the wart.
Interesting facts about warts: Their are more than a hundred types of the humanpapillomavirus. Most everyone has a wart at some point in their life and can develop at any age but are more common for children to get.
Sources: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-warts/basics/causes/con-20021715
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMHT0022704/ _ _