Patient/caregiver was educated on measures to prevent development of warts as follows:
- Most common means for spread of warts is contact with the wart. Avoid any potential contact or picking the wart.
- Wash your hands clean with soap and water after any accidental touch with wart surface, with you or others having the wart.
- Getting in contact with the wart surface and touching an unaffected portion of skin with the same hand, increases the risk for transmitting the virus and spreading the wart to new sites of skin. Covering the wart surface with wart cover can offer protection against this spread to self and others.
- Individuals having warts must avoid using community swimming pools, as you are risk to transmit the virus to many individuals who share the pool. Covering the wart surface with a waterproof wart cover or duct tape can offer some protection against spreading the virus.
- Individuals with history of genital warts must observe compliance abstinence from sex while the warts as active, to prevent spread of the virus to healthy partners. Use of barriers, such as, condoms, during sex can help to contain spread of the virus to some extent.
