A worrying aspect of sexual health in recent years is genital warts, which can grow in, and around male and female sex organs. These can form into ugly groups that can even affect the anal area. They are the result of one of the forms of human papilloma virus or abbreviated to HPV that are transmitted sexually, even orally and are actually a virus.
This is one time where using a condom will not always prevent the genital warts. Women can be infected and be unaware of their infectious disease for a long time, making the genital warts easy to transmit to other people.
Just to compound the problem, there is no reason why once a person is infected, they do not have to show signs straight away and the virus may not activate for months, even longer. The person who contracts them however, becomes a silent carrier and that is how this disease is spreading rampantly in today’s world.
Currently, more than 100 human papilloma viruses have been discovered but the one that causes anogenital warts is called human papilloma virus 6 (HPV6). Although outer warts can be easily seen, women who develop HPV6 warts inside their genitalia may not be aware of these warts until a doctor examines the internal area.
Women may display some additional discharge as genital HPV warts may cause the area around them to be moister than other areas and it is this condition, which promotes their growth. For HPV warts removal, one of the popular methods of wart removal is to apply liquid nitrogen to the infected area. This liquid nitrogen has a very low temperature and will kill the infected skin and tissues. You need to see a doctor to carry this out because liquid nitrogen is not generally available to the public, and the process is not a very painful procedure, and whether liquid nitrogen is used depends upon the location of the infected area.
Sometimes these days lasers are used to remove warts but often a doctor will prefer to use electrocautery although a minor surgical procedure cannot be ruled out. Eradicating them is not completely assured as they can return after treatment and every method available to remove them is still reliant on the area they are located. Imiquimod liquid is used topically to treat genital warts (and anal) as it helps the body’s immune system to fight the virus and to get rid of them but it does not kill the virus and new infections can still appear when Imiquimod is being applied.
Unfortunately Imiquimod cannot always be used and in particular it is not to be administered when a woman is pregnant; it also has restrictions on its use inside the vagina and on the genitals or when the skin around the area is inflamed. Like all medications, Imiquimod has side effects and if these are experienced it should be stopped immediately but this is worth discussing with your doctor prior to using it. With such a serious subje
ct, the information on genital warts provided here should not be viewed as complete or in-depth.
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