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Since there is no cure for genital warts it
is important to focus on treating genital warts to make them more
comfortable to live with. There is little need to choose self-care
at home since genital warts typically have no symptoms, but you do
need to recognize that genital warts exist. When treating genital
warts you should take the necessary precautions to avoid trauma to
the area since this can result in bleeding. You should also make
sure you don’t transmit the disease to your sexual partners. You
should also avoid touching the warts since they are infectious,
therefore do not squeeze or pick the warts.
Medical Options
While there is not specific treatment that
can eliminate genital warts and prevent them from coming back, you
can reduce the chance of blockage or complications by removing
genital warts through medical options. However, genital warts may
go away on their own after about three to four months in about ten
to twenty percent of people.
One medical option is cryotherapy which
freezes the warts using liquid nitrogen. This is an excellent
first-line treatment for treating genital warts and the response
rates are high with few side effects. Another option is
electrodesiccation which uses an electric current to destroy the
warts. This procedure can be done in the doctors office with local
anesthesia, but the resulting smoke plume can be infectious.
 The final
medical option is laser treatment. This option for treating genital
warts is often used when there is extensive or recurrent genital
warts. The procedure sometimes requires local, regional or general
anesthesia. A laser is used to physically destroy the wart.
However, the disadvantages of this option are the high cost,
increased healing time, scarring and potentially infectious viral
particles that can be released into the air by the laser plume.
Surgery Options
Surgery can be used to cut away the warts and
it is often done as an office procedure with local anesthesia. This
option for treating genital warts is typically only used when they
are small in size and number. This treatment technique has the
highest success rate with the lowest recurrence rate. The success
rates for this treatment method is 63 to 91 percent.
Outlook
Most of the time after treating genital warts
they will come back even with a good initial response and in some
cases the genital warts won’t even respond to treatment. Often the
recurrence rates are over fifty percent within one year of
treatment. Most of the recurrence has been linked to several
factors including recurrent infection from sexual partner, a long
incubation time of HPV, the persistence of the virus in the nearby
skin, hair follicle or sites that missed treatment and lesions that
are deep or undetected.
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