Warts pop up when the plantar wart virus gets into your foot through microscopic cuts and scratches, gaining enough strength to form a wart. Unfortunately, these warts are easy to get, but difficult to get rid of.
How to Treat Warts on Your Feet
- Wash all equipment used in this treatment in soap and water. Then rinse with alcohol or antiseptic.
- Put two tablespoons of mild detergent in a half-gallon of warm water. Soak your foot for about ten minutes.
- Cut out a square of 40% salicylic acid plaster that’s about the size of your wart and remove the backing to expose the self-stick surface.
- Apply the sticky side directly onto wart. Push down and cover it with an adhesive bandage.
- Keep the plaster on your wart and keep it dry for two days.
- After the two days are up, carefully remove adhesive bandage and plaster. The wart will have a white appearance.
- Brush the wart vigorously with an old toothbrush, soap and water for one minute twice a day for two days.
- Expose the wart to air as often as you can.
- Talk to your podiatrist about getting rid of the wart with a carbon dioxide laser unit. After the doctor administers a local anesthetic, a focused laser light beam will vaporize your wart.
- Ask your podiatrist about debriding your warts with a 30- to 70 percent trichloroacetic acid solution. This will require five or six treatments. If after the tenth debriding treatment, if the wart still comes back, you can have it surgically removed.
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