Can You Cut Out A Wart?
Warts can be ugly, embarrassing, and sometimes quite painful. This combined with their tenacious nature and tendency to come back after you think they’re gone may cause you to wonder: can you cut out a wart?
There are far safer and more appealing home remedies for warts, including many over-the-counter solutions including gentle and gradual filing, freezing, and salicylic acid. These solutions, where effective, are much preferable to cutting. There is less risk of infection and scarring with almost any home solution when compared to cutting. The problem, is, some warts are embedded quite deeply into the surrounding flesh, and killing or removing only the top portion of the wart often results in recurrence – the wart grows back over time, and this time, it’s angry.
In extreme cases, one in which salicylic acid, freezing, and burning have been ineffective, cutting them out is exactly what a dermatologist will do, cutting deeply beneath and around the wart to remove all traces of the growth. The doctor will take extreme care to get every little bit, and so eliminate the possibility of recurrence.
Many a frustrated wart sufferer has resorted to home butchery in order to remove a pugnacious and offending wart, cutting into their own flesh with scissors, steak knives, nail clippers, craft knives, and all manner of edged object in an attempt to rid themselves of their calloused interloper. I caution against this course of action, in part because you open yourself up to complications, and also because – without medical training, you’re very unlikely to do the job as cleanly or completely as a professional, especially as you cut through the pain of the ordeal.
Better, truly, is to seek out medical attention, or if that’s either too costly or unseemly a solution for you, seek a more effective and less invasive at-home option. Ask around, and you’ll be presented with hundreds of folk remedies, some of which have very strong supporters. You may be advised to cover the wart in duct tape for a month, of to paint over it with all manner of shellac, turpentine, or nail polish. It was even suggested to me at one point that a nightly soak in grape jelly would cause a wart to fade within a week. Amusing as some of these remedies sound – they must have come from somewhere. If you have the time and patience to use some trial and error, you may find one that agrees with you, otherwise, you might do well to look for a more evidence-based treatment.
achel Gipson is a natural health and healing expert with a passion for helping people to live healthier, more confident lives. To find out about a proven method for removing warts, moles, and skin tags WITHOUT SURGERY => <a href="”>CLICK HERE!
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