Plantar's Warts Treatments

Treatment

There are many over-the-counter products available to treat warts. These therapies often contain a mild acid. You can usually apply them when a wart first appears.

Another popular and less expensive treatment is using duct tape to cover a wart for a week at a time. This is also done with weekly “sanding” of the wart with a pumice stone.

You should see a doctor:

• For recurrent warts
• For those that fail to respond to initial treatment
• When over-the-counter therapies are not well-tolerated
• When the diagnosis is unclear

After confirming the diagnosis of plantar warts, the doctor may use one or more of the following:

• Cryotherapy—freezing the warts to kill the virus
• Laser treatment—using a laser to kill the virus and destroy wart tissue
• Electrocautery treatment—burning the wart
• Surgical removal—cutting out the warts (with anesthetic)
• Immune therapy—application of substances that stimulate the immune system’s response to the wart-causing virus