Common Warts Research Paper

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Warts are small usually you don’t feel any pain, they grow on your skin. Most of the time they do no harm. Warts are caused by a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV). Warts are usually spread through sex. They can also itch or hunt they are mostly found on your feet. But they can grow on any part of your body. They are contagious. They can spread by contact or something that touched the warts. Warts are most common in kids that in adults. They affect any area of the body. They are most known to go to warm, moist place. They can also go through small cuts or scratches on places in your body. Kids who bit on their fingernails are most likely to get warts. This is because when you bite off your nails you are exposing skin and if you touch anything …show more content…

Try not to walk barefoot. If it’s possible to change your sock or shoes daily or clean them when you can. Try to keep your feet dry and clean as much as you can. So if you are going to the beach when you are out dry it as fast as you can. If you see someone that has warts try not to get close because it can be passes on by touched. Common warts are found on elbows, knees, hands, and fingers. The common warts are every small but you will still be able to see. They are shaped like a dome and are light-brown. Its surface is hard and it has a white dot inside. In the other hand, flat warts are the size of a pinhead. They are much smoother than the common wart. Flat warts can be yellow, pink, or light brown. Unlike common warts flat warts can grow on hands, arms, …show more content…

They are every uncomfortable. If you are walking you might think it feels like walking on stone. Filiform warts are shaped like a finger. They colored like light pink like our skin. They can grow on nose, mouth, or eyes. Plantar have some symptoms. Often plantar warts are thought of the worse warts ever because of the pain they cause. Standing and walking might hurt really badly. Squeezing the wart may also cause a lot of pain. Often a plantar wart look like a callus because of its tough, thick tissue. A tiny back dots appear on the surface of the wart. This dots are dried out blood. Mosaic warts formed by the coalescence of smaller warts, like plantar warts. Mosaic warts are often tender. On the other hand periungual warts that look thick. They can be found around the nail plate. This warts can cause great pain once they start getting bigger. Periungual warts can be found on people who bite their nails. Again, this is because when you bite your nail you have exposing some skin. A dermatologist are the doctors that can tell you if you have a wart. They can just tell you if what you have it’s are wart. He can tell just by looking at the sport you think you have a wart. In some cases they can’t tell they would just send it to a lab to check out if it’s a wart or

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