What is the black thing inside plantar warts

Many people often find that there is a black spot inside plantar warts in their daily lives, but they don’t know how this black spot appears. They want to pick it off with their hands, but they are also worried that it may cause complications after touching it. Some people think that a black stripe appears inside the plantar wart is a symbol of soon to heal. The explanation of how this black spot came about still needs to be studied.

Plantar warts are common warts that occur on the soles of the feet.

Plantar warts are caused by human papillomavirus infection and can be transmitted through small breaks in the skin, resulting in an increasing number of them.

The symptoms of plantar warts are: small shiny papules, the size of mung beans, with rough keratinized surface, gray-yellow or dirty gray, clear surrounding boundaries, surrounded by thickened keratin rings, if the surface keratin is scraped with a knife, bleeding spots can be seen on the surface. Sometimes a small amount of blood seeps out from the surface of the wart, which appears as small black spots after coagulation.

From the above we can understand that the black spots in plantar warts are actually blood. The capillaries under the skin are damaged by the plantar wart virus and human papillomavirus and protrude into the epidermis. Due to the oxidation of skin repair or strong corrosive drugs, the bleeding in the capillaries coagulates and turns black.

Does seeing black spots mean that plantar warts are about to heal?

Actually, it is not. The black spots are not the roots of plantar warts. They are just trace amounts of blood that have turned black after coagulation.

So, what are the signs that plantar warts are getting better?

When your treatment course is completed, if no other plantar warts or similar symptoms grow around the original plantar warts after 10 to 20 days, and the itching of the skin is not so intense, it can be considered completely healed.

Then if it is healing quickly, you will find that the black spots will gradually fade away, and the infected small openings will gradually become smaller until they disappear, which means it is completely healed.

The black spots inside plantar warts are just blood, not a sign of recovery, so when you see the black spots, you must continue with treatment. As for whether or not to dig out the black spots, my personal recommendation is not to do so, because the black spots will naturally disappear after the plantar warts are healed, and there is no need to aggravate the condition due to improper treatment.

I believe that through the introduction above, everyone now knows the answer to "Where do the black spots in plantar warts come from?" The editor recommends that if plantar warts occur in life, patients still need active treatment.