Warts on the lips, nose, mouth - how does infection occur?

What does a wart on the face look like? Photo

There are different types of warts on the face.

Wart on the face, types of formations:

• vulgar warts;
• flat;
• pointed.

Vulgar

Warts appear on the face and reach large sizes (up to 1-1.5 cm) . The shape is round.

The formations rise above the surface of the skin , resembling a ball attached to the underlying tissue with a wide movable leg. New “daughter” elements are quickly discovered around the mother wart.

Color – flesh or pinkish-gray . The consistency is dense, the surface is rough. The face is a rare location for vulgar warts; most often they are located on the hands.

Next, let's look at a photo of vulgar warts on the face:

Flat

In people who have flat bumps on the face, similar ones can be found on the neck and arms. Typically, multiple formations are found in the corners of the eyes, on the forehead, temples, scalp, nose and nasal area.

The shape is oblong (due to the spread of the virus along the comb line), round, oval. The color is flesh or slightly darker. The surface is smooth. The diameter rarely exceeds 5 mm . Slightly raised above the skin. The stalk on which the formation “sits” may not be detected due to its small height.

Most often, such warts appear on a child’s face, which go away over time without treatment.

Let's find out what flat warts on the face look like: photo of papilloma.

Pointed

There are single elements or large outgrowths formed by the fusion of several condylomas. Favorite localization is the place of transition of the mucous membrane to the skin . Warts are found on the upper and lower eyelids, conjunctiva, oral mucosa and on the lip.

The base of the condyloma always narrows in the form of a stalk . The formations grow either in length, resembling a thread, or in width, taking on the resemblance of a cauliflower or cockscomb.

Often, warts on the nose and eyelid are injured, and the surrounding skin tends to become infected . Therefore, it is necessary to immediately get rid of warts in these places.

Genital warts in the mouth: photo.

On the face:

Removal methods

The presence of pathological growths on open areas of the skin brings significant psychological discomfort to carriers of the anomaly. In addition, some types of neoplasms pose a health hazard, pose a threat to life, and have a tendency to continuously grow. For example, a growing wart under the eye can cause blurred vision, more serious pathologies, even complete blindness. Therefore, there is a natural desire to get rid of the pathology.

Many people are interested in how to get rid of warts on the face?

There are several treatment methods that help eliminate skin pathologies:

Traditional

Removing a wart on the face in the traditional way involves the following techniques:

• Laser therapy is considered the most effective method of getting rid of growths on the face. Using a laser, you can bloodlessly remove a growth on any part of the body, even if the wart is in the mouth;
• The radio wave method involves converting electricity into radio waves, after exposure there is no trace left at the site of the pathology;
• electrocoagulation is an effective method for the bloodless removal of warts on the skin and mucous membranes, for example, if there is a growth in the larynx area. During the procedure, it is possible to take a tissue sample for histological examination;
• the surgical method is used in the absence of effect from drug therapy;
• cryodestruction involves exposing the wart to liquid nitrogen;
• exposure to chemical substances on tumors.

Medication

Answering the question of how to remove a wart on the face using conservative therapy, we can say that antiviral drugs, immune agents, tablets, ointments, and injections are used for this.

The most effective antiviral drugs for removing flat warts on the face are:

• Panavir;
• Allokin;
• Isoprinosine.

The most popular immunomodulators:

• Roncoleukin;
• Polyoxidonium;
• Immunal;
• multivitamins.

You can effectively and quickly remove a wart on the face using Vishnevsky ointment, as well as other external means:

• 5-fluorouracil;
• Aldara (cream based);
• Vartek (cream);
• Viferon, Rheodoxol (in the form of ointments);
• Oxolinic ointment;
• Panavir gel.

Causes

Sharing equipment with a person suffering from human papillomavirus infection:

• face towel;
• ink;
• razor;
• with a washcloth.

The virus penetrates the epidermal cells of the face through microtraumas. The risk of disease increases with weakened immunity .

You can get infected not only from a person who has formations on his face . The virus can enter the skin of the face from other areas of the body, for example, from the hands, genitals. Read more about the causes of warts on the face here.

Who is to blame for the appearance of warts?

All types of warts have a common cause - the human papillomavirus. It is one of the most common; more often than not, humanity only encounters colds.

However, HPV is also infectious in nature, meaning the virus is highly contagious.

You can only get infected from a person (animal papillomatosis is not transmitted to people) and only from someone who currently has warts on their face or body.

Warts more often affect children because their need for personal space is small, so children have a lot of frequent contact with each other.

There are known cases when among a whole group of children literally covered with warts, there are one or two children with perfectly clear skin. Why is this happening?

The reason is that infection depends not only on the patient, but also on a healthy person: the virus cannot do anything with a strong immune system.

The problem with the appearance of warts is not the widespread prevalence of the virus, but the widespread decrease in immunity in modern people, in particular children.

Stress, environmental problems, unhealthy diet, medication abuse and lack of exercise weaken the body of modern people against viruses.

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But there is good news: the immune system is able to cope with HPV without any outside help, even if treatment is not carried out.

If it takes the body an average of seven days to defeat the flu or cold virus, then it takes much longer to develop immunity to HPV.

After a few months, or a maximum of one and a half to two years, the warts on the face disappear, regardless of whether you used any product, for example, salicylic ointment, to get rid of them.

Immunity to HPV is not lifelong, which is why warts can come back again and again, as happens with a cold.

In order not to get sick and not to look for a way to get rid of formations on the skin, you should take simple preventive measures. First of all, strengthen your immune system.

For children, this means moving a lot and being in the fresh air, getting tougher, avoiding drug treatment, especially antibiotics, and eating more vegetables and fruits.

It has been noticed that for some reason warts appear more often on wet areas of the skin, so you should make sure that your hands are always dry, because it is from them that in most cases the infection gets to the face, and also do not wrap the child up so that he does not sweat too much.

And, of course, you should get rid of the habit of biting your nails and generally touching your face frequently if you do not want to regularly treat warts.

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HPV is viable outside the host’s body for several months, so it is easy to become infected in any public place if you have even the slightest damage to your skin.

This means that you should not be afraid of people with warts and limit your children’s contact with them - you will never be able to know exactly at what point and from whom you became infected.

When to see a doctor?

Dermatologists advise seeking medical help if warts or moles on the face:

• not aesthetic;
• cause discomfort when combing hair, brushing teeth, and is constantly injured;
• multiply quickly, producing “daughter” screenings;
• a mole is growing rapidly on the face;
• upon external examination, they no longer resemble a wart (changed color, bleed);
• become infected and have signs of inflammation (swelling, pain, redness, hot to the touch).

All flat warts must be removed , since, for example, when washed, they can spread to the genitals and mucous membrane of the genitourinary tract, where they become the cause of a malignant neoplasm.

What to do if a wart appears on your face?

To get rid of warts, medicinal (pharmacy), folk and surgical methods are used .

Pharmacy products will help

1. Antiviral and immunomodulatory agent - Panavir . Apply a thin layer of gel for external use to the wart 5 times a day for 5-10 days.
2. Keratolytic solution Collomak . Apply 1 drop to the wart 1-2 times a day. The course of treatment is 5-7 days.
3. Supercelandine is an alkali preparation for the chemical destruction of warts at home. Before applying the drug, lubricate the area around the formation with a thick cream. Apply no more than 3 times a day until the wart turns black. Avoid contact with eyes!
4. Solcoderm is a solution for external use. Use strictly according to instructions. Apply with an applicator stick 1-2 times a day until signs of wart death appear (discoloration to gray or yellowish).
5. Salicylic acid for warts on the face will also help remove the growth.

Drugs for the treatment of warts are expensive, but do not guarantee getting rid of skin lesions , so doctors recommend removing warts with medical help.

Traditional recipes will come to the rescue

1. Prepare an ointment based on 2 g of Vaseline using 1 g of crushed celandine . Apply to the wart 3 times a day until it turns black.
2. Take a small amount of garlic and celandine leaves . Finely chop the ingredients. The resulting juice in its pure form or a mixture of it with vaseline oil is used to burn the wart no more than 3 times a day until it turns black.
3. You can apply fresh gruel from celandine leaves , lubricating healthy areas of the skin with cream.

Folk remedies for warts on the face can be dangerous if they come into contact with mucous membranes . After burning out “unpleasant bumps” at home, scars often remain on the face.

Find even more useful information about treating warts at home in our article.

Doctors will remove

• radio wave removal;
• cryodestruction;
• laser destruction;
• chemical methods using nitric, trichloroacetic acid, Feresol;
• rarely manual removal;
• use of cytotoxic drugs.

Watch a video about how to surgically remove a wart on the face:

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Treatment methods

Treatment of warts on the face is predominantly conservative. Procedures for removing warts on the face have proven positive in treatment, since modern cosmetology today has reached a very high level, in contrast to surgical techniques, which are practically not used due to the formation of scars on the skin.

Folk remedies are an addition to the main course of treatment for warts on the face and are used only with the permission of a dermatologist.

Ways to remove warts

You can remove a wart on the face using the following methods::

1. Laser therapy . Laser excision is carried out in two ways: Impact on the capillary walls. With the help of a laser, they are glued together, which leads to stopping the blood supply to the papilloma.
2. Warming of intracellular fluid. This technique provokes cell bursting due to an instant increase in size. This method is not recommended for use when removing flat tumors.

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Treating warts at home

It is very difficult to independently choose a suitable remedy to remove warts from the face, since it must have an antiviral effect.
In addition, the dermatologist usually prescribes drugs to immunize against the papilloma virus. Drug treatment of warts on the face is carried out in the following areas :

1. tablets, suspensions;
2. external treatments for warts on the face (creams, ointments, acids);
3. injections;
4. excision (removal of warts).

One method may not be enough, so the course of treatment for warts on the face usually includes a set of measures .

Treatment with drugs

• Aldara (Imiquimod) - cream.
• 5-fluorouracil - cream or ointment.
• Vartek is a necrotizing cream that kills affected cells and often leaves scars and burns, so the use of this drug is not recommended.
• Riodoxol, Viferon - immunomodulating ointments.
• Wartner, Cryopharma - aerosols with a freezing effect. They are distinguished by their high cost, which may not correspond to the declared quality of the drug.
• Panavir - gel.
• Oxolinic ointment is an active substance that is antiviral in nature. Disturbs the intracellular development of papilloma.
• Retinoic acid.
• Feresol, trichloroacetic and salicylic acids.
• Candida, trichophytin USP - injections for immunotherapy.

Folk remedies against warts on the face

You can burn warts on the face using the following methods::

• celandine;
• castor oil;
• tea tree oil;
• semi-shaggy milkweed;
• iodine;
• onion juice;
• small duckweed;
• juice of thistle or spring buttercup;
• bug weed;
• wormwood;
• blue cornflower seeds;
• thuja occidentalis leaves;
• linseed oil;
• rowan fruits.

But when using traditional medicine to treat warts on the face, remember that treatment without consultation with a specialist can lead to complications and side effects.

Removing warts on the face at home - video