Red wart

Unlike other warts, a typical red wart is not related to the effects of human papillomavirus. However, the etiology of the tumor may be different. In addition, such a neoplasm often has an unaesthetic appearance and can cause discomfort. Is it difficult to get rid of such a wart, and how to do it in order not to harm?

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Causes of the red warts

Specialists can not accurately indicate the cause of the formation of red wart: presumably, the etiological factor may be a congenital anomaly, or acquired problems with the vessels and the circulatory system.

The red color of the growth is due to its origin: it has a vascular structure, and is filled with blood. Most often, such a structure is represented by the smallest capillaries, and the more such vessels, the larger the wart.

Red warts often appear in adulthood, and these factors contribute to their appearance:

• traumatic damage to the skin (scratches, cracks, scratches, punctures);
• changes in the skin due to a sharp weight loss or, conversely, weight gain (a wart may appear in the fold or in the area of the stretched skin);
• hormonal changes (meaning sharp changes - for example, in pregnant women, with menopause, when taking hormonal contraceptives, with hyperthyroidism, etc.);
• liver disease, chronic pancreatitis;
• tumor processes.

In early childhood, the appearance of red warts is often associated with impaired development of the vascular network, or with intrauterine hypoxia.

Symptoms of the red warts

Red warts can appear anywhere on any part of the body. Many people notice such formations in themselves and live with them all their lives without taking any action.

Red warts are benign skin lesions, and their causes are not always known.

Depending on the location on the body, on the form, growths are divided into several types.

So, flat red warts on the body are more often formed in the face, head, limbs (hands, feet). The average size of these growths is 0.5-3 mm. Some of these formations disappear on their own after some time, and some have to be removed after a long unsuccessful treatment.

A common red wart on the hand, fingers is almost always quite painful, interferes with movements. Its appearance resembles a callus, but the structure may be loose in appearance. The most common cause of growth on the limbs and fingers is mechanical damage to the skin.

The red wart on the leg is more often found either on the foot or below the knee joint. She may be disturbed when walking, be damaged by clothes or shoes. Such warts are recommended to be removed first.

Red warts on the face, head can never be tried to remove on their own. It is in this area that there is a high risk of infection: it is better not to take risks and contact an experienced dermatologist in a specialized clinic.

If you trace the process of the appearance of red wart, then at first you can see the formation of a barely noticeable reticulum of the smallest capillaries. Then a spot is formed on the same spot, resembling a small red dot. After some time, the point grows, an outgrowth is formed - flat or protruding, hilly. In each individual patient, the appearance and localization of tumors may vary significantly.

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Forms

A common red wart can be located on almost any part of the body. It has the appearance of a tight red knot, may also have a yellowish or pinkish tinge.

Smaller formations sometimes appear around the wart. The skin over the usual outgrowth is dry, rough and rough.

A flat red wart is more often located in the face or on the hands: it has the appearance of a slight elevation above the skin. Sometimes this formation has the appearance of a corns, with a compacted horny layer. If it is located near the nail, then it is called periungual growth. Often this growth is formed with injuries and regular biting of the nails.

Red warts on the scrotum and genitals often have a pointed or flat shape. They appear in sexually active adults. Such neoplasms are quite a lot, they can periodically be injured, disrupting the normal course of sexual life.

Complications and consequences

Red wart rarely causes complications if you don’t touch, injure or try to get rid of the growth yourself. Otherwise, the consequences may be as follows:

• the wart may increase in size, spread in the form of multiple rashes;
• infection, suppuration, development of inflammatory reaction may occur;
• red wart can cause severe bleeding if damaged;
• rarely, but the wart can acquire a malignant course.

To avoid trouble, you need to remove the tumor from a qualified specialist. To do this, there is a mass of all kinds of medical, hardware and surgical methods. The doctor will select the most optimal method after evaluating the available contraindications and the general health of the patient.

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Diagnostics of the red warts

It is usually not difficult for a doctor to identify typical red warts: the diagnosis is made immediately after examining and feeling the tumor. On examination, the doctor takes into account the characteristic color, discoloration under pressure, localization and other signs.

If difficulties arise with the diagnosis, as well as with the ineffective treatment of red warts, it is advisable to conduct a histological study. Histology helps to detect such nuances as epidermal acanthosis and papillomatosis, hyper and parakeratosis with long papillary elements. The capillaries of the dermis are well defined, and are often thrombosed, with mononuclear cells around the circumference. If the red wart is related to the human papillomavirus, then keratinocytes will be detected with an eccentric localization of the pyknotic nucleus with coylocytes. The infected structure may have small eosinophilic granules, and with warts a small acanthosis and parakeratosis is found. Sometimes in the latter, coylocytes are identified against the background of vascular pattern enhancement.

General tests in the diagnosis of red warts are optional. If you suspect the presence of human papillomavirus, do a scraping of the tumor and send the material for PCR diagnostics. This type of research helps determine the type of HPV.

Instrumental diagnostics is usually limited to the biomicroscopy of the skin, examination with a magnifying glass or in Wood's lamp, a neoplasm biopsy.

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Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of red wart is performed with lichen planus, which reveals a wax shine and reddish-purple growth. Differentiation also requires warty cutaneous tuberculosis: with this pathology, inflammatory infiltrate and a purple-red corolla along the periphery are present in the growths.

In complex cases, a biopsy is used for differentiation - a microscopic examination of tissues taken from a wart. The procedure is performed in the clinic, with the help of special diagnostic equipment.

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Treatment of the red warts

For most people, red warts do not need to be treated or rushed to get rid of them. Doctor's help is needed only in certain situations:

• if the wart suddenly became painful;
• if itching appears, or swelling around the neoplasm;
• if the red wart began to bleed;
• if the growth continues to increase in size;
• when the color of the wart changes from red to darker or even black.

Regarding the treatment of red warts usually refer to a doctor dermatologist. You should not immediately go to beauty salons or other institutions that promise to remove the red wart without a trace: you first need to undergo a diagnosis and make sure that this is a really warty formation, and not another dangerous pathology.

Most often, red warts are removed surgically. But there is also a drug treatment, which in some cases may be effective. This treatment is different:

• with the use of hormonal drugs;
• using local sclerosing agents that cause necrosis of growth cells.

Both the first and second methods are applied only by a medical specialist, taking into account all possible risks and contraindications.

From ordinary red warts some pharmaceutical preparations can help:

• keratolytic based plasters (with lactic or salicylic acid);
• gel-based applicators containing 40% trichloroacetic acid.

Among the most famous and popular patches include such as "Salipod", "Ultra Profi House", "Court of Epitact" and so on.

Medications that the doctor may prescribe

If the viral origin of the red wart is proven, the doctor will prescribe antiviral treatment. Topical use of appropriate drugs prevents the spread of infection to healthy areas in the case when the red wart is impossible or difficult to remove. For this purpose, use oxolinic ointment, ointment Viferon or Tebrofen. The dosage and duration of therapy is determined by the doctor.

Sometimes they practice rubbing 5% fluorouracil ointment, 0.5% colchamin ointment, 20% interferon, trichloroacetic acid.

Inside can be assigned to receive magnesium oxide in the amount of 0.2 g three times a day for 14-20 days. It shows the local use of drugs, which include salicylic and benzoic acid, tretinoin. The frequency of use of such ointments - twice a day, for several weeks.

In hemangiomas, sclerotherapy can be used. The essence of this method lies in the fact that a sclerosing substance is introduced into the red wart (often 70% ethyl alcohol is used as such a substance). This treatment is effective, but quite painful and prolonged.

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Alternative treatment for red wart

There are several ways in which many patients were able to get rid of red warts in normal home conditions. Let us say at once: before using such methods, it is better to consult a doctor, since not all neoplasms may use alternative methods of treatment.

Those recipes that we give below, were able to help many people to recover from the red wart.

• Peel off a ripe banana, cut into square pieces (approximately 2 to 2 centimeters), according to the number of warts. On each side of the soft side put chopped garlic. Apply the garlic side to the wart, fix with a bandage.
• Rub a washed raw potato on a fine grater (no need to peel the peel, just wash it). Put the grated mass on the red wart, cover with a piece of gauze, bandage and leave for several hours.
• The kalanchoe leaf is cut lengthwise, the cut side is applied to the wart, removed after a few hours.
• Wormwood in the amount of 2 tbsp. L pour one liter of boiling water, insist for half an hour, used to put lotions on the area of the red wart.
• Take crushed leaves of horse chestnut, pour boiling water at the rate of 1 tbsp. L leaves to 0.5 liters of water. Insist for half an hour under the lid. Used for baths (especially convenient if red warts are located on the fingers, hands or feet).

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Herbal treatments: extra help

• Red wart is treated daily with fresh juice of the plant, golden mustache, and from above - with castor oil. The course of therapy is about a week.
• Up to six times a day, dandelion or celandine juice is applied to the red wart. The duration of treatment depends on the size of the formation and can be from 2 weeks to one and a half months.
• Several red ash berries are crushed, the resulting gruel is applied to the wart, fixed with a plaster, and left overnight.
• Treat the red wart daily with a pharmaceutical tincture of propolis or plant juice trash can.
• Gently rub the powdered grass of a bore into the wart area.

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Homeopathy

Homeopathic treatment can be connected to the main one with numerous growths of red warts, or when the number of formations persistently grows.

Homeopathy is safe, so it can be used to treat patients of any age, and even women during pregnancy. However, it is impossible to select drugs on your own: usually this is done by a homeopathic physician who takes into account a lot of nuances that are important for quality treatment.

At the initial stage, homeopathic preparations are prescribed in a special dosage in order to prepare the body for the maximum possible response. The main course involves the use of an increased amount of funds. Most often, the treatment course is designed for 2-4 weeks.

To get rid of red warts such homeopathy preparations can be used:

• Antimonium krudum - especially recommended for removing warts on the limbs;
• Kaustikum - suitable for removal of soft wide red wart, located, including, and on the face;
• Argentum nitricum - can be used to locate warts on the genitals;
• Thuja - used for numerous growths and with the reappearance of the problem.

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Surgical treatment of red wart

To date, there are several methods to radically get rid of red warts:

• The method of cryodestruction, more commonly known as “burning” with liquid nitrogen. Usually, one or two procedures are enough to eliminate a red wart. The neoplasm disappears almost without a trace. The disadvantage of this method is the impossibility to precisely control the depth of penetration of the freezing, so sometimes the treatment has to be repeated.
• Laser removal is a common and most comfortable way to fight red wart. The laser procedure is performed in two ways: it is coagulation using a carbon dioxide laser or using an erbium laser. Red wart is removed layer by layer. For the procedure, you may need local anesthesia for up to 2 minutes. Subsequently, on the site where there was a wart, there remains a small depression that disappears within a few weeks.
• Electrocoagulation is the removal of a red wart using high-frequency current. After the procedure, the scab remains on the treated area - a kind of crust that rejects after some time, exposing healthy skin. Traces from the former growth, as a rule, does not remain. But with deep-set warts, this method is not recommended, because after a deep impact on the skin, a noticeable scar can form.
• Surgical excision is a relatively rare way of getting rid of a red wart. It is used if the tumor has a sufficiently deep fit: it is surgically excised, and then stitched. The treatment is carried out as for a normal postoperative wound. After healing at the site of the operation, a scar is formed.

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Prevention

Unfortunately, at the moment there is no specific way to prevent the occurrence of red warts. However, doctors share proven tips on how to minimize the risk of a similar problem. Here are some of these important recommendations:

• You need to teach yourself and your loved ones to wash their hands thoroughly upon coming from the street.
• You should be careful about visiting the bath, sauna, solarium. If you have never visited a bath, ask your doctor about possible contraindications. Do not sunbathe in the solarium or in the sun during the active period of the sun, do not stay on the beach for a long time, avoid sunburn.
• It is important to protect the skin from all kinds of damage. And if such damage nevertheless occurred, then it is necessary to correctly treat the wound and, if necessary, consult a doctor.
• It is necessary to monitor your health, adjust nutrition, to prevent violations in the metabolism. The diet should include a sufficient amount of vitamin and mineral components, you should also observe the balance of fats, proteins and carbohydrates. No less important is also the rejection of alcohol and smoking.

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Forecast

In most cases, the red wart does not pose any danger to the patient's health: it can only deliver certain aesthetic inconveniences. However, if such a growth is located in a place that is often subject to mechanical irritation, then this can actually lead to the development of complications. These places include the foot, the area of tight fit gum, strapless or other items of clothing.

The use of alternative methods in relation to the wart is not always approved by doctors: sometimes there are adverse effects in the form of ulcerations, the addition of infection, suppuration, enhancement of the growth of education.

In general, the forecast can be classified as favorable. Due to the unclear etiology of the appearance of the problem, it cannot be guaranteed that after removal the red wart will not appear again - in the same or in another place.

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