Dealing with warts on your face can be extremely embarrassing. People ask me quite regularly whats the best way to remove warts from their face. My most common answer is, warts will usually go away completely on their own without treatment. However, this can often take a couple of years. That's an unacceptable length of time for many people. The reality is, there are many treatment methods available.
The cause of warts is a virus. It is called the human papilloma virus, or HPV for short. The human papillomavirus has many different strains. These different strains are what causes the different kinds of warts. Some methods of wart removal are acceptable for face warts. This is because some methods of treatment can cause scarring. Most people find a scar on their face just as bad as having a wart. The most logical option is to prevent warts in the first place.
Typically direct person-to-person contact are how people get warts. You should never touch other people's warts to prevent getting them yourself. And don't touch things that people who have warts touch. You should never share personal hygiene items such as razors or towels.However, it's much more common to spread warts you already have to other parts of your body.
Make a point of keeping your skin healthy and free of abrasions. Good hygiene goes a long way in the prevention of warts on your face. To eliminate a place for HPV to enter your body keep the skin of your face moist healthy and free of dry cracks at all times.
Facial warts have many effective ways to be removed. There are various nonprescription medications available. You can also find many natural remedies to use for wart removal. And if these methods fail, your doctor or dermatologist will have other removal methods available for you.
Nonprescription and prescription medications with vitamin A have been found to be effective in removal of facial warts. You should always apply the ointment directly on the wart, never on the skin surrounding the wart. Also, medications containing salicylic acid are effective for wart removal.
Many of the natural remedies that are effective in removing warts from your face might sound like unusual substances to use for this purpose. In most cases the use of these substances are effective when used as directed. Some of these substances include castor oil, onion juice, sesame oil and garlic. For some reason however of these substances have been successfully used by many people not everyone gets the same results.
A dermatologist will have many different treatment options for removing facial warts. One of these methods available only to doctors is the use of liquid nitrogen to cryogenically remove a wart. And of course only a doctor or dermatologist will be able to do laser wart removal. Whether you choose to try to remove the warts from your face at home with over-the-counter medications, or home remedies, you should always consult a physician first. While natural remedies and over-the-counter medications can be effective, prescription strength medications will almost always be more effective.