Pedicure With A Wart
Plantar warts can at times cause horrible pain. If you are suffering from this condition and are searching for ways to get rid of them, look no further. I have a solution for you.
A Must-Read: How to Cut Toenails if You Can’t Reach Them
Don’t be too concerned about getting a pedicure while having plantar warts; just at least try to treat warts before going; this will avoid pain, embarrassment, and a possible contagious wart transfer.
Before we move along, I will be discussing the following:
Warts
Warts are growths on the skin that can sometimes be painful. There are various types of warts:
A virus can cause warts, appearing in all parts of the body.
They have a rough surface and have black spots representing small clotted blood vessels.
Can You Get a Pedicure with a Wart?
Plantar warts are contagious and can transfer to another person through skin contact.
Hence, this raises whether a person can get a pedicure when a plantar warts.
Warts are viral and tend to spread quickly. For example, if a salon fails to sterilize the tools used on an infected person, it can transfer to you.
An infected person can transfer the virus to the nail technician by accident.
Also, consider the basin used on that infected person. If it goes un-sterilized, the virus can spread to other people who will use that basin.
To avoid the virus spreading to other people, do your pedicure at home, then go for polish at the nail salon.
Cover the wart with a bandage when going to the nail salon and inform the nail technicians of your plantar wart.
Doing a pedicure at home can take up to 30 minutes of your time.
Doing Your Pedicure At Home:
- A tab to soak the feet
- Foot tile
- Foot scrub which is optional but it is essential
- Moisturizer
- Nail polish
Check out some at-home foot spas; they are affordable and convenient.
1. Soak The Feet In Warm Water For 15 Minutes
Use a dish that will fit both feet. To prevent swelling of the feet, add a quarter cup of Epsom salt into the water.
People who suffer from foot fungal can add the Epsom salt with a few drops of tea tree oil to the water.
Swirl the water in the basin with toes until all the salt dissolves. This softens the skin on the feet for easier removal of dead skin.
2. Exfoliate The Skin And Concentrate On The Calluses
In this step, use the foot file to scrub the whole foot. Keep massaging with foot scrub until the feet and calluses get adequately exfoliated.
When you finish the process, rinse and dry the skin.
3. Moisturize
Use an intensive moisturizer. Moisturize the legs and also touch the ankles. Then take some time to massage the foot.
4. Paint the Nails
This step is optional, but feel free to paint the fingernails with the color you like.
After the pedicure, the foot tub and foot file should be disinfected with bleach or a strong disinfectant.
Types
It’s important to differentiate each type to know what sort of treatment you’ll be making. Here are the following:
Flat Warts
This type of wart occurs more in teenagers as compared to adults. They are flatter, smaller, and smoother than any other kind of wart.
Flat warts appear in large numbers, mainly on the face of individuals but can occur on a person’s legs, especially on females.
Common Warts
These are small, grainy skin growths that appear on the individual’s fingers. They also contain small black dots with clotted blood vessels.
Warts can take 2-6 months to develop after exposure to human papillomavirus.
Common warts are harmless, and they can disappear on their own after some time.
Many people consider removing them because they find them embarrassing and bothersome.
Plantar Warts
This type of wart gets considered a malignant epithelial tumor.
Plantar wart appears flesh-colored with tiny clotted blood capillaries like small black dots.
They are called plantar warts when the growths occur on the sole.
They are characterized by a complex, grainy, fleshy growth that appears on the heels of the feet. These parts experience a lot of pressure and friction.
Pressure on the feet can cause the wart to flatten and grow inward underneath the thick, hard layer of skin called the callus.
Some plantar warts can appear alone or in a group known as mosaic warts.
They grow slowly and can sink deeply into the skin, causing pain or discomfort.
When they develop on the weight-bearing areas of the foot, like the ball or the heel, they become a source of sharp burning pain daily.
They cause pain because the body weight is put directly on the wart. The pressure on the side of the wart can also lead to equally intense pain.
Plantar warts can change somebody’s normal posture when they cause pain.
You may not realize the impact this can do on your stance or walk. This can cause muscle or joint discomfort.
Cause s
Warts come from viral infections caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) virus.
The virus has more than 100 strains: strain 1, 2, 4, 27, and 57 all-cause plantar warts.
The virus enters the body through the skin to skin contact, and sometimes it penetrates the bloodstream through the damaged tissue on the skin’s surface.
Warts are contagious, and they get transmitted in moist places such as showers, swimming pools, locker room floors, or gym floors.
There is a high probability of skin residue on these places where the moisture helps the virus survive.
Plant warts affect any skin type.
Children are more vulnerable to getting plantar warts because they have a low immune system that cannot adequately defend the body against the infection of the virus.
Adults who are immunosuppressant disease are also vulnerable to plantar warts.
Prevention
Plantar warts cannot be prevented through the available vaccines because various strains of the human papillomavirus cause them.
A person can reduce plantar warts by minimizing the chances of human papillomavirus transmission.
You can reduce direct contact of the skin with the surface of the foot that may be infected.
Various prevention tips include the following.
Do not swim in a public pool if you have cracks or lacerations on your feet.
An individual should avoid sharing shoes and socks with other people.
Wear flips flops in community showers or the locker rooms.
Also, never scratch the wart since it encourages them to spread to other body areas.
Symptoms
Many people can identify plantar warts, but they are unsure when to see a doctor.
A physician can identify plantar warts without performing any laboratory tests.
Plantar warts get easily diagnosed because of where they occur.
Plantar warts can feel like having a stone stuck in your shoe.
Like the calluses, the plantar warts are flat with thick, tough skin.
The only way to differentiate a callus and a plantar wart is that the wart is painful when squeezed by an individual.
Another way to distinguish is that it has black dots on the surface.
Identify
- Small, flesh-colored growth found at the bottom of the foot
- The presence of wart seeds with black color
- Feeling pain or tenderness while walking or standing
- The development of small skin projections
Treatment
Wartfound on the skin’s surface is not harmful and may disappear without treatment.
However, some warts need to be evaluated by a physician.
The wart may also recur after complete treatment. Hence, it is necessary to use various types of therapy.
Most wart treatment methods require to be done multiple times. These methods of treatment include:
Salicylic Acid
This treatment option involves a topical medication with salicylic acid as the active ingredient.
The medicine can be in the form of gel or pads. The acid in the medications dissolves the wart tissue when applied by an individual daily.
These may take a few weeks—salicylic acid resolve about 10 to 15% of cases of a plantar wart.
Laser Therapy
These depend on the thickness and the location of the wart on the body. Some warts can be treated with a laser called Pulse Dye Laser.
The procedure involves an intense beam of light that destroys and burns the tissues of the plantar wart.
Cantharidin
This substance contains a blistering agent applied on the skin’s surface to form a blister on the wart’s surface.
The area should be covered with a bandage when applying cantharidin.
The blister lifts the wart from the skin.
Freezing or “Cry Therapy”
Freezing involves spraying liquid nitrogen to freeze the wart. An individual or a doctor can do this.
When doing it at home, make sure the temperature reaches negative 100 degrees Celsius.
The disadvantage of doing this at home is that it may not freeze the plantar wart deeply for the process to be effective.
Freezing at home can be painful because the wart needs to get sprayed for a long time than when the physician is treating a person.
When the method is active, a blister gets formed around the plantar wart, and the damaged tissues fall off after a few weeks.
Intraregional Therapy
These are medicines injected into patients with warts. The injectable treatment commonly used is Candin, which dilutes candida yeast.
This works by boosting the body’s immunity to respond to the HPV virus. Bleomycin can also be injected.
It’s also toxic to the skin cells infected by a virus.
Minor Surgery
When other methods cannot remove a wart, a physician can perform surgery to cut off the wart area.
Its base is destroyed by using an electric needle or by using cryosurgery.
This treatment method gets done to a sizable wart that does not respond to other treatments.
Conclusion
Maintaining high hygienic standards is crucial in making sure that you avoid conditions like plantar warts.
One of the ways to make sure that your nails are always clean and free from any infections is by regularly doing your pedicure at home, even if it will consume time.
Plantar warts are contagious and can get transmitted through skin contact.
Every time you visit a nail technician for a pedicure, ensure that all the tools used are sterilized and the pedicurist wears
