Skin Care After Wart Removal

We are all very conscious of how our skin looks. Young people are especially so. The pressure is really on for people to look like Hollywood stars and we are bombarded with adverts about our blemishes every day. One of the most common skin problems is warts and luckily for sufferers, it is one of the easiest to cure. Warts can be removed by a few minutes of non-painful surgery.

The removal of warts by surgery or by other methods like freezing may produce a small wound. If you treat this wound carefully, there is no need for it ever to be visible. If your doctor or dermatologist does not give you instructions on skin care after wart removal, you should ask and follow the instructions to the letter.

These instructions are not likely to be difficult to follow. They will almost certainly just concern applying an antiseptic cream to prevent infection and a bandage or plaster to keep the wound clean.

However the type of wound you have depends on the method of removal that you chose. Surgery and freezing are the worst for creating wounds, but even they are pretty superficial. If you do not have many warts, you may choose to remove them yourself by applying a wart solvent. Wart solvent should be applied to or three times a day and it will rot the wart away over a period of weeks.

Wart solvent usually contains salicylic acid which does not burn, although you have to be careful to put a drop only on the top of the wart. The wart will appear to grow larger as it disintegrates, but this is normal. After a few weeks it will fall off not leaving any scar or wound at all.

My aunty cured me of my warts by rubbing them with a piece of steak and burying the steak in the garden. She spoke a few words which I did not hear and she told me that when the steak had rotted away, my wart would disappear. She also warned me not to dig the steak up to check.

I was eight years old and the wart was very embarrassingly growing on the end of my nose. About three weeks later, my wart fell off while I was washing in the shower. There was no wound and it never returned. Not a lot of you will believe that that happened, but it did.

It seems to me that the best way to avoid having to worry about skin care after wart removal is to not use surgery at all if you can help it. It is easy to remove warts with over the counter remedies like wart solvent (or steak) if you can.

Surgery and freezing are normally reserved for very serious infections of warts, but warts are contagious, so it is best to treat every wart as it appears so that you do not risk spreading the infection to other parts of your body or even to your friends and family.

Skin care after wart removal is not an arduous task, but it can be avoided by keeping on top of your warts. As the old saying goes: 'A Stitch in Time Saves Nine' and so it is with skin care after wart removal too.