Warts on children's hands

Warts are a contagious disease and can occur in any part of the body. Warts on the hands are the most common. Although there are many treatments for warts, warts are prone to recurring and have a great impact on people's daily lives. If children have warts on their hands, they must be taken seriously and actively treated. Don't be careless, as warts are contagious.

What happens when a child has a wart on his hand?

Warts are contagious benign skin tumors mainly caused by human papillomavirus infection. The main causes of the disease are trauma or low immune status. Damage to the skin and mucous membranes is the main cause of infection. Low immunity aggravates the virus infection of human skin.

Warts have the ability to self-inoculate. If not treated in time, their number will increase and they can be transmitted to other people. Hands are easily damaged due to daily friction. Human papillomavirus can be directly inoculated and transmitted through the damaged areas on the hands. Therefore, warts often occur on the back of the hands, fingers, and edges of the feet, with warts being the most common on the hands.

If a child has a wart on his hand, he will involuntarily want to remove the wart and scratch it with his hands. In fact, no matter how to remove the wart, you cannot scratch the wart directly with your hands, because it is easy for viruses such as human papillomavirus to aggravate the infection of the affected area and worsen the condition. Therefore, warts need to be removed with reasonable methods, and medication is the most commonly used method.

What to do if your baby has warts on his hands

1. Drug treatment: Commonly used drugs for the treatment of warts include fluorouracil ointment, bleomycin intralesional injection, 0.7% cantharidin, 0.1%-0.3% retinoic acid alcohol solution, 3% phthaloethylamine ointment or 3% phthaloethylamine dimethyl sulfoxide ointment, 0.5% podophyllotoxin, 5% imiquimod cream, antiviral drugs, salicylic acid, procaine, etc.

2. Photodynamic therapy: Systemic or topical application of photosensitizers, which cause local cell death after exposure to light, can treat some common warts and genital warts.

3. Physical therapy: Physical therapy includes cryotherapy, electrocautery, laser therapy, and infrared coagulation therapy. It is suitable for a small number of common warts and plantar warts. Because scars may be left, it should be considered with caution.

4. Surgical removal: Some giant warts can be removed surgically, but because the operation can only remove the warts on the surface of the hands, the human papillomavirus still exists in the body and is prone to recurrence after surgery.

5. Dietary conditioning: You should strengthen your diet and eat more foods rich in vitamins to promote skin care. At the same time, you should ensure balanced nutrition and enhance your resistance. It is difficult for viruses and bacteria to invade the body of people with strong resistance. Only people with relatively weak resistance are prone to disease.