Do you really know the consequences of not treating flat warts?

Flat warts are a highly contagious skin disease. Not only do they affect appearance, but they are also highly contagious, causing great mental stress and emotional impact on patients. Their high contagiousness creates rifts between family members, and their greater danger is that the HPV virus can cause cervical cancer in women.

The incubation period of warts is 1 to 3 months. Traditional Chinese medicine calls flat warts "flat warts" or "thousand-day sores". It is believed that the disease is mostly caused by loose skin pores, wind-heat toxins invading the body, or liver deficiency and blood dryness in the body, which causes the tendons and qi to be deficient, and heat toxins to be released and accumulate in the skin.

According to clinical observations, the rash of flat warts is a flat, smooth papule ranging in size from a pinhead to a mung bean, which is round, oval or polygonal and hard in texture. Normal skin color or light brown. It can occur in various parts of the body, including the face, back of the hands, and armpits. Generally there are no subjective symptoms such as pain or itching. However, since it is contagious, you should not scratch it, because scratching will damage the skin and the wart virus will invade through the damaged area, causing autoinoculation infection. The longer it gets, the more it gets. Sometimes flat warts can be seen arranged in a beaded pattern along the scratches.

In fact, the harm of flat warts is not only affecting the appearance but also highly contagious. It causes great mental stress and emotional impact on patients. Its contagious nature creates rifts between family members. The greater harm is that the HPV virus can cause cervical cancer in women. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, the occurrence of cervical cancer is closely related to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Its carcinogenicity rate is 4.7%-10.2%. Cervical cancer ranks second among female malignant tumors, second only to breast cancer, and the age group of onset is tending to be younger and younger. Medically confirmed. Because many people do not understand the harmfulness of flat warts. Although flat warts or several other types of warts caused by HPV are not taken seriously enough, it is too late to repent until serious consequences occur.