What The Heck Is A Smooth Wart?
A smooth wart is another name for a flat wart with a technical name of verruca plana. The common wart (verruca vulgaris) is usually very bumpy and rough. Both kinds of warts are caused by one of the over 100 strains of the human papiloma virus (HPV). This is a contagious virus; in other words, you have to contract HPV from an already infected person in order to grow your own crop of warts.
Most Common For Children
Most children get smooth warts or common warts at some point in their childhoods. This is because their bodies haven't developed any kind on immunity to HPV. But once you contract HPV, you can never completely eliminate it from your body. However, if you are reasonably healthy, then you can go years or decades between break outs. Smooth warts and common warts are usually more annoying than painful.
You can get smooth warts or common warts at any point throughout your life if your immune system is somehow not working adequately. The usual scenario is that HPV lives waiting in puddles, swimming pools or other public places that are warm and moist. You come by, and you have a cut, scrape or scratch. The HPV gets in through this opening.
Treatments
According to the medical website Better Health Channel, over 65% of smooth warts and common warts go away on their own without you having to do anything. However, you do have to wait a few months for this to work. Warts usually pop up on the face, hands, neck or knees. They can pop up singly or in the company of many other warts.
However, if the wart hurts, is very large or limits the quality of your life, then you need to see a doctor to get it removed. Genital and rectal warts should always be treated by a doctor. Plantar's warts, which grow underneath the skin on the palms or soles of the feet, should also be treated by a doctor.
Smooth warts and common warts can often be treated quickly and successfully with just the common wart topical treatments available at pharmacies, department stores and supermarkets. They vary greatly in price. Their effectiveness also varies from person to person.
If the over the counter treatments do not work, then you are going to have to go to the doctor to get them removed. Treatments start with strong prescription topical creams to freezing the warts off.
