Your child's healthcare provider may recommend that your child see a skin specialist dermatologist. The dermatologist may do a shave biopsy, although this is not commonly done. A very small amount of the wart is shaved and sent to the lab to be examined. Most warts go away in weeks or months with no treatment. Common warts can often be treated with over-the-counter products.
Treatment of warts depends on:. Some treatment methods may cause pain and burning in the area treated. Talk with your child's healthcare provider about which treatments would cause the least pain and work best for your child. Treatment may include one or more of the below:. It can be spread by skin to skin contact. It can be virus may be spread by towels or other personal items. You can help prevent the warts from spreading.
Make sure your child:. Warts can be treated with over-the-counter medicines. Other treatments may be prescribed by your child's healthcare provider. Health Home Conditions and Diseases. What causes skin warts in a child? Which children are at risk for warts? A person is more at risk for warts if he or she has either of these: Close contact with someone who has warts A weak immune system What are the symptoms of skin warts in a child?
Sometimes they might put it on with a cotton bud. This freezes the top layers of the wart, which destroys the infected tissue and releases the virus into the bloodstream.
The treated area might be painful for minutes or even hours. A crust or blister will form and then drop off within a week. Burning and laser Burning and laser wart removal treatments are done under local anaesthetic. Both treatments can leave scars, which might make it difficult to treat the wart if it comes back in the same spot. Immunotherapy Immunotherapy involves putting differing concentrations of allergic solution on the wart. This creates a type of skin inflammation, which causes the immune system to kill off the wart.
This treatment takes time and can be very itchy. Imiquimod This is usually a treatment for genital warts rather than common warts. This is because the HPV virus can spread to different part of the body on fingers and fingernails.
Also encourage your child not to chew on warts. This means not sharing wart paint, pumice stones and files. Make sure that your child wears thongs or sandals in public showers or changing rooms. These are places where they could catch plantar warts. HPV vaccination can protect young people from genital warts. HPV vaccination is part of the Australian National Immunisation Program and is available free to all children aged years.
Skip to content Skip to navigation. About warts Warts are a skin infection caused by the human papillomavirus HPV.
Flat warts may be pink, light brown, or yellow. Most kids who get flat warts have them on their faces, but they can grow anywhere and can appear in clusters. Plantar warts. Found on the bottom of the foot, plantar warts can be very uncomfortable, and feel like you're walking on a small stone. Filiform warts. These have a finger-like shape, are usually flesh-colored, and often grow on or around the mouth, eyes, or nose. HPV viruses that cause warts can be passed from person to person by close physical contact or from touching something that a person with a wart touches, like a towel, bathmat, or a shower floor.
You can't, however, get a wart from holding a frog or toad, as kids sometimes think! Kids who bite their fingernails or pick at hangnails are at more of a risk for warts because they create open areas for a virus to enter and cause the wart.
A tiny cut or scratch can put any area of skin more at risk for warts. Also, picking at a wart can spread warts to other parts of the body. Sometimes warts are sexually transmitted and appear in the genital area. The length of time between when someone is exposed to the virus that causes warts and when a wart appears varies.
Warts can grow very slowly and may take weeks or sometimes longer to develop. Warts will often go away on their own but can take from several months to a couple of years to do so. A doctor might decide to remove a wart if it's painful, interferes with activities because of discomfort, or is embarrassing.
Within a few days after the doctor's treatment, the wart may fall off, but several treatments might be needed. If an older child has a simple wart on the finger, ask the doctor about using an over-the-counter remedy that can help remove the wart. This treatment can take several weeks or months before you see results. But eventually the wart should crumble away from the healthy skin.
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