Treating Plantar Warts
There are a number of different ways to treat plantar warts. Generally
speaking, they fall into two main categories: either you go to a podiatrist
or you treat them yourself.
If you have decent insurance coverage and/or enough cash to cover professional
treatment, you’ll probably want to visit a professional. If you
don’t have good coverage and don’t have much cash, you might
turn to self-treatment.
Professional Treatment
for Plantar Warts
A Podiatrist can offer a variety of ways to treat your plantar warts.
They might use conventional surgery to remove the wart, they might freeze
the wart with liquid nitrogen, or they might employ pulse-dye laser
surgery. They might even recommend the use of a wart removal product--similar
to what you can do yourself.
Self-treatment for Plantar Warts
Dr.
Scholl’s Clear Away Plantar Wart Remover System is
one of the most common self-treatments for plantar warts. Clear Away
Plantar Wart Remover for Feet uses Salicylic Acid 40% in a synthetic
rubber-based disc as its active ingredient. If you’ve ever had
to deal with acne, you might recall seeing Salicylic Acid as the active
ingredient in your acne face wash--at a fraction of the concentration.
Using Dr. Scholl’s Clear Away
Plantar Wart Remover
Application is fairly straightforward. Basically, you wash and dry
your feet, then apply the Clear Away Plantar Wart Remover disc. The
directions suggest that you repeat this application every 48 hours,
for up to 12 weeks, until the wart is removed. 12 weeks is an awfully
long time ...
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