What is the natural history of verrucas?
Verrucas, and warts, are known to disappear spontaneously. This
is thought to be the body creating antibodies against human
papilloma virus. Therefore the body's immune system can fight the
virus and after time, the wart or verruca can disappear.
However, in other people, the verruca can remain for quite some
time and even develop other verrucas found it - causing an "mosaic"
effect.
Which verrucas need treatment?
Ideally all verrucas should be treated to prevent transmission to
other noninfected people. However, not everybody is able to, or
wants to, get treatment.
The verrucas that need treatment are:
verrucas on the weight bearing areas of the foot
verrucas between the toes, on the tips of toes or on the tops
of toes
verrucas that sociably unacceptable
The verrucas that are found on the thicker skin, on the weight
bearing areas of the foot, are deeper than those found elsewhere on
the foot. This means that they may take more treatment than those in
other areas. Also, as noted above, they may cause pain on standing
on them.
Verrucas on the toes can cause discomfort due to the skin on the
toes being more sensitive and due to them rubbing on footwear or the
other toes.
Many people wish to have their verrucas treated to prevent them
being a risk of spreading them to others.
The treatment of verrucas is discussed on the website
www.verruca-treatment.co.uk.
