Weak immune defense favors warts

Weak immune defense against virus promotes the formation of warts

07/12/2011

Warts are caused by viruses, which are transmitted by contact or smear infection. Once there, they are often not easily released. While conventional medicine usually advises the dermatologist to cauterize or remove the wart, naturopathy offers many home remedies that can provide relief.

How do warts on the skin develop??
The cause of warts are viruses called human papillomaviruses (HPV). There are about 150 subspecies, about 10 of which cause warts. By contact or smear infection of the skin, initially only the uppermost skin layer is affected. By propagation in the cell nuclei, the virus is also transmitted to the lower skin cell layers. The period between infection and genesis of the warts can be weeks to months.

Very often, those affected become infected in swimming pools, where an already infected person can easily spread the virus. Professor Ulrike Wieland of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology reports: „A pool visitor with a nipple takes a shower, moves barefoot on the edge of the pool, settles on the bench. Everywhere on the slip-resistant, rough floors, his viruses stick. The next visitor enters. If he has a fine crack on the sole of the foot, then he has infected in no time.“ In addition to minor skin injuries, the skin is also endangered where it has already been damaged by eczema or fungal attack.

On the feet, a wart is often particularly uncomfortable, as the entire body weight presses on this. „It grows inwards and forms a thorn-shaped extension. It can reach the fatty tissue and cause pain“, explains Professor Gerd Gross, Dermatologist at the University Hospital Rostock.

Warts can appear isolated or beetartig on the skin. The most common types of warts include Vulgar warts, also called „ordinary warts“ called, warts, plantar warts, flat warts, brush warts and aging warts.

Therapy against warts in conventional medicine
Warts are harmless and sometimes even disappear by themselves. However, this requires a lot of patience for many people due to their low immune defenses. „Your immune system recognizes it only after a delay of different lengths“, reports Gross. After months or years, an inflammation develops, which can lead to the healing of the wart.

However, it is advisable to go to the specialist to rule out other skin diseases. If patients do not want to wait until the wart disappears by themselves, and this is not always the case, the specialist will usually prescribe a therapy with salicylic or lactic acid to soften and remove the large horn portion of the wart tissue. Wartspatches have a similar active principle. Ursula Sellerberg of the Federal Association of German Pharmacy Associations in Berlin explains: „The surrounding skin should be protected by applying zinc paste or vaseline“.

Professor Gross advises after three days of treatment with the softening agent to daily foot baths in an antiseptic solution or in salt water. When used for two to four weeks, the wart sometimes disappears on its own. If this is not the case, the wart can be surgically removed by the specialist. As further therapies cold and laser therapies or treatment with an immune modulator come into question. The complete removal of the wart is in the foreground, as out „residues“ Infected tissue in depth can form dangerous nodules and cysts.

Wart combat with home remedies and natural remedies
There are many herbal home remedies that can be used to combat warts. These include, for example, castor oil. The affected skin on the face and hands should be rubbed several times a day with the oil so that the warts slowly recede and disappear.

Another home remedy for warts is the juice of the celandine leaf. If you rub the washed leaves with stalks between your fingers and thereby rub in the affected areas of skin, the goods should also regress. Even a self-made cream of 10 ml celandine Urtinkzur from the pharmacy and 100g conventional, well-tolerated skin cream can act three times a day against the warts.

Milkweed, natural tea tree oil, Swedish edible bitters and marigold ointment are also considered home remedies to combat warts. In homeopathy, Antimonium crudum can be used in broad horny warts, which occur on the soles of the feet and are accompanied by calluses.

Schuessler salts are also suitable for the treatment of warts. Externally, potassium chloratum ointment can be applied several times daily to the affected area of ​​the skin. For internal use, potassium chloratum D6 (# 4) is recommended daily with sodium chloratum D6 (# 8), 3 × 1 tablet each.

Prevention of warts
Since the formation of warts is triggered by a virus, only limited preventive measures can be taken. Human papillomaviruses are so resistant that they can hardly be eliminated with the usual disinfectants. That's why experts recommend that you take your own precautions in the most vulnerable places, such as swimming pools. These include wearing slippers and using your own towels, which are washed after the bath or sauna at 90 degrees. (Ag)

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