Wart & Verruca Removal in Newcastle
Warts/Verruca Removal
If you are looking for wart or verucca removal then our specialist Dermatologists are able to provide you with sound advice and excellent operating skills.
Warts and verrucas are small lumps on the skin that most people have at some point in their life. They usually go away on their own but may take months or even years.
It may be able to freeze a wart or verruca so it falls off a few weeks later. Sometimes it takes a few sessions.
Other treatments include minor surgery and treatment with laser or light if freezing is not successful.
Check if you have a wart or verruca
Identifying a wart or verucca
Warts
Warts feel firm and rough. They can appear on palms, knuckles, knees and fingers. Warts are usually skin coloured but may appear darker on dark skin.
Verrucas
Verrucas appear on your feet. They have tiny black dots under the hard skin. Some warts are round, flat and can be yellow (plane warts). You can have many of them. Clusters of warts, spread over an area of skin (mosaic warts) are common on feet and hands.
Treatment of Warts & Veruccas
The options available
Most warts and verrucas go away by themselves, and treatments don’t always work. But if your wart or verruca is bothering you, you might decide to give treatment a try.
The most commonly used treatments for warts and verrucas removal are salicylic acid and cryotherapy (freezing). Book a consultation today with our dermatological staff who will guide you through the most suitable options.
What is cryotherapy?
for wart and verucca removal
When you have cryotherapy, your doctor applies the liquid nitrogen to your wart using either a spray or a cotton bud. It takes between five and 30 seconds to freeze your wart depending on the technique used and the size and location of the wart.
You may need to repeat the treatment every two to three weeks, up to six times. It sometimes leads to blistering or scarring of your skin and can be painful, so isn’t often recommended for younger children.
Warts/Verruca Removal FAQ's
- Medicines. There are many creams, gels and medicated plasters for treating warts and verrucas.
- Cryotherapy.
- Specialist treatments.
Can a verruca be cut out? Yes, if your doctor decides that is the right treatment for you, the wart or verruca can be carefully cut out using a surgical scalpel.
They may grow and grow if untreated. It could reach the point where it’s over a centimetre wide and bordered or covered by hard skin – a real nuisance. Over time, the pressure you exert on it when standing or in motion may force the verruca deeper into your foot.
There will be a deep hole in the bottom of your foot where the wart comes out! Even though the hole looks painful, it usually is not as what you are seeing is clean, new skin that has grown around the dead virus.
Avoid shaving over a wart. If you shave over a wart, you’ll have microtears in your wart and the skin that you shave. Through these microtears, you can spread the virus that causes warts from the wart to any skin that you shave.
No, you should definitely not attempt to cut off your own wart. To start with, warts are caused by a virus (HPV) and cutting off the growth will not actually cure it. In time, the wart will likely grow back.
Wart & Verruca Removal in Newcastle
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