Treatment
There are various ways of treating warts:
- Local application of drops or cream
- Liquid nitrogen
- Electro-coagulation
- Curettage
- Laser
- Bleomycine
- Surgery
Liquid nitrogen
Is applied by the General Practitioner. Every week, he/she would freeze the wart using liquid nitrogen. When this unfreezes, the cells die.
Electro-coagulation
With this treatment, the wart is burned away using a type of laser.
Curettage
The wart is scraped away using a sharp metal spoon. Often the base is then coagulated or treated with liquid nitrogen.
Laser
With the CO2 laser or another type of 'burning laser', the wart can be burned off.
Bleomycine
This is a so-called chemotherapeutic agent that is used in the treatment of some virus-related types of cancer. It can be used on extremely stubborn, therapy-resistant warts in adults, by being injecting into the warts using a very fine needle.
Surgery
Cutting warts away is not usually a good option. The operation is often major, painful and takes place in areas that are difficult to treat (hands, feet). Very often, the warts will return in the scarred tissue, because the virus cannot be removed by cutting it away.
