Are common warts serious?

Common warts are a relatively common skin disease and are also a disease that can cause great pain to patients. Of course, common warts can be serious or not. Mild common warts generally do not cause discomfort to the patient. However, if the warts are more serious or grow in special parts of the body, they will cause certain pain to the patient. Below, I will introduce you to some relevant knowledge about common warts!

1. Symptoms of common warts

1. Initially, the rash appears as a needle-tip-sized papule, which gradually expands to the size of a pea or larger, and is round or polygonal in shape, with a rough surface, obvious keratinization, hard texture, and grayish-yellow, dirty yellow, or dirty brown in color.

2. It is common on fingers, back of hands, edges of feet, etc.

3. The number varies. At the beginning, there is usually only one, and then it can develop into several to dozens. Generally there are no subjective symptoms, but tenderness may occur occasionally.

4. The course of the disease is chronic and some cases can heal themselves.

5. Plantar warts are common warts that occur on the soles of the feet. Due to local pressure and friction, a yellow callus forms on the surface. If this layer is scraped off with a knife, white soft thorn-like warts can be seen, and there are often small black spots scattered on the surface.

6. If it occurs on the edge of the nail, it may disrupt the growth of the nail.

2. Diagnosis of common warts:

1. The skin lesions are needle-sized to pea-sized, semicircular or polygonal papules, which gradually increase in number, have a hard texture, a rough surface, obvious keratinization, and are gray-brown or normal skin color. The top may show papilloma-like hyperplasia, and there is no inflammation around.

2. The skin lesions are single or multiple, usually with no subjective symptoms.

3. It is common on the back of hands, fingers, nail edges, etc. The latter is called paraungual warts.

4. Histopathology: Light microscopy showed hyperkeratosis, parakeratosis, vacuolated cells in the granular layer, acanthosis and papilloma-like hyperplasia. Intranuclear virus particles can be seen under electron microscopy.

3. Prevention of common warts

1. Pay attention to personal hygiene and environmental hygiene in daily life, educate children to develop good hygiene habits, wash hands, take a bath, change clothes frequently, etc., keep the indoor environment clean and well ventilated, so as to avoid the breeding of viruses and prevent the occurrence of diseases.

2. Children with common warts should be careful not to share daily necessities such as towels, washbasins, etc. with others to prevent infection of others. Parents should pay attention to regularly disinfect and sterilize items used by the children.

3. Encourage the children to keep exercising, which will help improve their physical quality, strengthen their constitution and play a good role in preventing diseases.

4. Children should not touch the affected area frequently with their hands to prevent infection and worsening of the condition.

5. Keep your child optimistic. Flat warts have a slow course, and the fastest treatment time generally takes 15 days, or even longer, but the rash will flatten and disappear after treatment without leaving any traces, so you must be optimistic, patient, and perseverant during the treatment.