Besides minor pain when walking, planters warts are not among health threatening infections, they can be cured effectively and the fastest way to get rid of them is to consult your doctor. Planters warts is a term used for describing warts on your feet. Normally plantar warts are found on the lower part of your foot, the so called "plantar" part. HPV, human version of papilloma virus, is responsible for planters warts and generally it is caught by walking barefoot in places regularly visited by crowds of people. Direct contact of the exposed foot and the virus will in majority of cases lead to HPV infection. Some of the statistics show that about ten percent of the teenagers in the West get infected with this virus by simply walking barefoot in public showers and the like places.

How To Diagnose The Plantar Warts

Pinpointing planters warts infection in its first stages is very though owing to the fact that they look exactly the same as the normal skin callus. Sweat, direct contact with the ground, always tightly squeezed into shoes, or exposed by walking barefoot, our feet are the optimal environment for warts causing viruses. Eliminating warts from the surface does not necessary mean eliminating the infection itself, as the roots of the wart can reach all the way to the flesh. Sometimes, on walking you would feel like you are having a stone in your shoe. The difference between calluses and the planters warts is that the latter has a blood supply (which is visible through its fleshy color) while the former is just an accumulation of dead skin and hence totally colorless (and bloodless).

Eliminating warts

Usually minor plantar warts will disappeared by themselves. Only about 40% of feet warts disappear without intervening, therefore one should immediately start to deal with them. There are many wart cures, some just based on old-wives tales and some totally scientific.

No matter what advice you get from your friends and well wishers, you should visit a doctor and have it treated medically. Regardless which treatment you prefer, you have to prep your immune system to fight against the virus-otherwise it will remain in your body.

The medicine prescribed would often involve salicylic acid applications, patches or other chemical treatments as per the doctor's advice. After starting with the suitable professional treatment it usually take less than ten days to get rid of warts for good. Sometimes however, the warts refuse to go away. In these cases, the doctor would use other types of treatment such as freezing (with liquid nitrogen) and dissolving the wart or can simply cut out the wart completely.

One could simply try to apply usual wart removing medicine for longer periods of time, hoping to eventually eliminate them completely. Any wart treatment should show some kind of results regardless to the time you apply it. Most effective wart remedies are those which are agreed upon with your doctor.

The only sane advice on plantar wart removal is to treat this infection with respect and knowledge.