Sadly there is still no HPV treatment yet available, no HPV cure. There are, however, treatment and therapy methods for its conditions. There is no way to get rid of HPV outright, but there are ways to reduce the appearance of warts and make dealing with HPV more comfortable.
Over the Counter
Of course, most warts will disappear on their own, given time. If you’d rather not wait, there are several over-the-counter products which will help to speed up the process and make warts go away faster. The most popular wart removal products would include…
• Compound W
• Dr. Scholl’s pads, discs and liquids
• Wartner
• Curad
These products all work by burning or freezing the wart away with chemical compounds or simple acids. Again, these don’t cure HPV, but can get rid of warts and make HPV easier to live with. There are also genital wart removers, but you should probably seek a doctor’s advice before trying to conduct genital wart treatments on your own.
All of the above products will tell you how to remove warts with the product on the label. Make sure you follow these instructions carefully, as the chemical compounds used can damage healthy tissue just as well as tumorous tissue.
Home Remedies
The myth of getting warts from frogs is completely unfounded, but there are a few home remedies that actually work to get rid of warts pretty quickly:
• Garlic
It’s not only delicious, it can also kill warts pretty fast. Crush some fresh garlic (use the flat side of a knife and pound the garlic, being careful not to cut yourself) and, being careful not to get any garlic on the surrounding, healthy skin, rub the garlic directly on your wart and cover it with a band aid. Some people report that this can eliminate a wart in just one week, as the wart will blister from the acidic content of the garlic. Replace the garlic once a day.
• Vitamin C
Plenty of vitamin C will not only help to burn the wart away with its high acid content, but the vitamin C will also help your body fight off the HPV itself. Take some vitamin C tablets and crush them, then mix them with water to create a paste. Apply the paste to your wart and cover it with a bandage.
• Steaming hot footbath for plantar warts
Plantar warts are highly sensitive to heat, so if you use heat water to about 110 degrees F or so and then soak your feet a good fifteen minutes a day, you should see results before long.
• Basil
Fresh basil actually has some quite potent virus fighting capabilities. If you crush a basil leaf and tape it to your wart on a daily basis, you can put the virus killing compound to work at killing your warts.
• Duct tape, water and pumice
Place a small piece of duct tape over your wart, leave it on for six days, and then remove the tape, soak the wart in water for a couple of minutes, and use a pumice stone to file the dead skin on your wart. You won’t be able to get rid of a wart in one go this way, so reapply some more duct tape the next morning and repeat the process until the wart is gone. The theory behind this method is that, by irritating the skin, your immune system will kick into gear in that area and work harder to fight the virus.
How they Work
All of the above home remedies may sound kind of nutty, but the way they work is actually quite simple. The wart itself is not a virus, but a benign tumour, basically infected skin. It’s not hard to kill your own infected skin with acids, heat, or cold.
There may not be a way to get rid of HPV right away, but we’re coming closer to an honest to goodness cure every day, and until then, as they say, necessity is the mother of invention: Nobody likes warts, so it stands to reason that there are dozens of ways to get rid of them! Look at all the available methods, the ones listed above and HPV treatment methods you might find online. Talk about it with your doctor, and settle upon a therapy that you feel comfortable with.
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