Patient/caregiver was educated on measures to manage 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 sharing any equipment they use to remove the wart such as, pumice stone or nail clipper or emery board, with others. This helps reduce risk for viral transmission. Also, use separate equipment for wart removal and healthy skin sites, to reduce risk for viral spread to new skin sites. Dispose of the equipment used for wart removal appropriately.
