Topic Contents Overview How can you care for yourself at home? When should you call for help? Where can you learn more? Top of the page. Overview A plantar wart is a harmless skin growth. How can you care for yourself at home? Use salicylic acid or duct tape as your doctor directs. You put the medicine or the tape on a wart for a while and then file down the dead skin on the wart. You use the salicylic acid treatment for 2 to 3 months or the tape for 1 to 2 months.
If your doctor prescribes medicine to put on warts, use it exactly as prescribed. Call your doctor or nurse call line if you think you are having a problem with your medicine. Wear comfortable shoes and socks.
Avoid high heels or shoes that put a lot of pressure on your foot. Pad the wart with doughnut-shaped felt or a moleskin patch. You can buy these at a drugstore.
Put the pad around the plantar wart so that it relieves pressure on the wart. You also can place pads or cushions in your shoes to make walking more comfortable.
Take an over-the-counter medicine, such as acetaminophen Tylenol , ibuprofen Advil, Motrin , or naproxen Aleve if you have pain.
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Skip to navigation menu Skip to content. High Priority Alert. Close alert. Like other warts, most plantar warts eventually go away on their own. It might just take a year or two. If your plantar warts are painful or spreading to other areas of your feet, waiting is not an option.
You need immediate relief. But over-the-counter wart removal creams and liquids are ineffective. Plantar warts are too deep in the skin. You may be able to remove the outer layer, but the seed of the wart is deep in the sole of your foot and it will come back again. Over-the counter wart removers can actually do more harm than good. They contain acids and chemicals that destroy the skin they touch.
You can easily apply too much, damage the surrounding area and open your skin up to further infection, causing plantar warts to spread. Instead of trying to remove plantar warts at home, see your primary care provider. From there, they can recommend the best treatment from a variety of removal options. All of them are designed to get rid of the wart as well as stimulate the immune system to identify the virus and prevent warts from reforming. Wart removal medicines available over-the-counter work less than half the time.
Stronger medications available by prescription only are a better solution. They work the same as the widely available options, peeling away a plantar wart layer by layer. You can apply a prescription-strength medication to your plantar warts at home and follow up with your provider to make sure the wart is entirely removed.
Freezing a wart using cryotherapy is an effective wart removal option. Liquid nitrogen is applied to the plantar wart with a spray or cotton swab.
This destroys the tissue and causes a small blister to form over the spot. In a week or so, the dead skin will be gone.
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