How to Treat Genital Warts

HPV Treatments For Genital Warts and if you have been diagnosed with HPV or suspect that you may be a carrier of this condition, you should be very interested to know what HPV treatment is available.

Although there is no cure or treatment for the HPV itself, there are plenty of different options available to you to treat the genital warts which in some cases appear as a result of the HPV condition.

Therefore if there are genital warts on your person, you will be able to make an informed decision on which human papilloma virus treatment you would like to undertake.

Although in some cases, genital warts can go away without treatment, others will multiply and grow larger. You have no way of knowing which direction the infection will take.

Health professionals often recommend applying medication to warts as the first choice of warts treatment.

You can treat HPV genital warts in the comfort and privacy of your own home using the following home remedy for warts.

*  A natural healing product made from essential oils where the formula is used to treat HPV genital warts by eliminating all strains of the wart virus with no skin irritation and no scarring by drawing the warts out of the skin.

They then flake away. This product is applied topically to the affected area and available on the internet.
*  Imiquimod (Aldara) is a treatment available on prescription for home use and induces the body to produce proteins that act against the HPV and boosts the immune system locally.
*  Podofilox lotion or gel (Condylox) is another treatment available on prescription for home use which is applied twice daily for 3 consecutive days for up to 4 weeks. This product stops the growth of the wart cells.

Your health professional can apply the following medications to treat HPV genital warts in his rooms:

*  Podophyllin resin (Podofyn) which is a plant extract that is applied every 1-2 weeks.
*  Interferon is injected into the wart to help the body’s immune system to fight the virus that is causing the wart. The injections are carried out twice a week for up to 8 weeks or until the warts have gone.
*  Trichloroacetic acid (TCA) or bichloroacetic acid (BCA) are a further medication which needs to be repeated weekly until the warts have gone.

*  Fluorouracil (Exude, Fluoroplex). This cream would be applied weekly until the warts have gone.

These are more complicated procedures to get rid of genital warts which would need to be carried out by a health professional and some of them would require an anesthetic:

*  Cryotherapy involves putting very cold liquid nitrogen, nitrous oxide or carbon dioxide directly onto the warts. This freezes the wart tissue and destroys it. Cryotherapy can be used to treat internal warts as well as external ones.
*  Laser treatment is used for vaporizing HPV genital warts and is very precise and can be used to treat those genital warts in difficult to reach areas.
*  Electrocautery is where the genital wart tissue is destroyed with heat from an electric current.
*  Excision is where the genital warts are cut away as a surgical procedure.

Your health professional will help and advise you on the best way to treat human papilloma virus genital warts. But you can do your part by researching the different treatments listed above so that you are informed and aware of the treatment which you feel would best suit you.

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