Patient/caregiver was educated on measures to manage warts as follows:
- Biting on the fingernails and cuticles can leave areas of broken skin that can provide access to the wart virus. Individuals with warts must avoid biting fingernails and individuals with compulsive behavior of biting nails must seek behavior therapist intervention to overcome the compulsive habit of nail biting.
- 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.
- Soak the wart site in warm water for 15 minutes every day. Blot the site dry with a clean paper towel and dispose it off. Salicylic acid is available as an OTC solution and patch, to be applied on the wart site every day. Salicylic acid helps with exfoliation and slow removal of the cells from the wart surface, thus helping the removal of wart over a few weeks.
- Liquid nitrogen, at an extremely low temperature, could also be applied to freeze the wart tissue. Dead and frozen wart tissue detaches from skin and falls off later.
