Question 1. How are genital warts spread?
Answer: Usually through direct skin-to-skin contact and possibly through bodily fluids as well. They can appear from a few days after infection to a couple of years, in some cases.
While treating your warts, you definitely don’t want to do anything that could pass them on to other people or other parts of your body. Always wash your hands and clean the area before each treatment.
Question 2. Is it possible to get rid of warts forever?
Answer: Many of the people who deal with the available creams and oils generally report that their warts return within 2 to 3 months. However, not all treatments should be considered the same. The reason most oils and creams don’t work permanently is because they only treat the surface of the wart, leaving the root under the skin. So when seeking treatment, look for one that can get under the skin to attack the base of the wart root. Then it shouldn’t reappear in that area.
Question 3. If you are pregnant, is it still safe to use a treatment?
Answer: The sooner you get warts and start treating them, the better. Most treatments are perfectly safe to use during pregnancy, except perhaps for Aldara. Aldara is known to cause rashes and burns in some women, so check with your doctor before using Aldara during pregnancy.
Most natural treatments are gentle on the skin and should not cause any problems for a pregnant woman.
Question # 4. How do warts usually disappear?
Answer: The 3 most common ways are: falling, crumbling and flaking, and shrinking until completely gone. Which of these will do yours is unpredictable, because all
The chemistry of the case and the personal body is a little different. Sometimes warts can change a little color or swell before falling off or while shrinking. That is a good sign, because it means that the method you are using is working.
Question # 5. When I get rid of them, will I be able to pass them on to other people in the future?
Answer: If you are treating your warts with a method that leaves the wart root behind under the skin, then yes, you can still pass your warts on to other people.
However, in some particularly healthy people, the immune system may do the “dirty work behind the scenes” after you’ve gotten rid of everything you can see on your skin.
For some people this happens easily and for others it does not. The main factors that influence this are your stress levels, whether or not you smoke, your personal body chemistry, and in general how healthy you are in everyday life (examples: do you exercise ?, do you eat well ?, Are you exposed to a healthy dose of vitamin D that produces sunlight every day?)
The best treatment involves a physical treatment of the warts in combination with the intake of vitamins and minerals that stimulate the immune system.
Question # 6. But what about sites that say the virus always stays with you?
Answer: Whenever you catch a virus, be it a cold virus, a flu virus, or whatever … your body makes a copy of it in your system. It does the same with HPV, the wart virus. So as long as you get over it, as you would a cold or flu, you may still have the virus in your system, even though everything is fine for you. This is why sometimes people get confused by all of this when they read a lot of conflicting information from many different websites.