how do plantar warts spread?

Question

Could you spread a plantar wart like this?

Answer 1

By contact : Plantar warts are a virus which can be spread by direct contact to ski surfaces. They also spread thru the skin to create multiple warts.

Answer 2

Aspirin: Wet an Aspirin and apply nightly with tape. Another safe treatment is 5flouracil cream.

Answer 3

Warts: Each night before going to bed soak a cotton ball in apple cider vinegar, apply it to the wart and then hold it in place with a band-aid. Leave it on all night, or if you like, 24 hours a day but change the soaked cotton and band-aid each evening for a week. The wart will swell and may throb as it reacts with the vinegar and then start to turn black within the first two days and in two weeks gone.

Answer 4

Many ways: Acid therapy, freezing, burning, laser treatments, topical prescription medications like Aldara (imiquimod) and effudex, trichloracetic acid, surgical removal. See a podiatrist this is a common problem they treat.

Answer 5

Several treatments.: You can try over the counter wart removers, but be careful: i've seen them do more harm than good. Other options your doctor might offer include cryotherapy (freezing the wart), electrocautery (burning the wart), laser treatment, or several different topical chemical treatments. If the treatment is typically uncomfortable, your doctor can numb the area before proceeding.

Answer 6

Possible: If you wear someone else's footwear.....

Answer 7

Yes: If wearing the shoes with no socks you can spread the virus.

Answer 8

Warts: Warts can stay with you for a long time. It can be successfully treated by cryo- or candida injection. See your doctor.

Answer 9

Warts Life Span: As soon as the wart left outside of its host, it won't survive. It lives on moist, warm skin environment. It can only be contagious from skin to skin contact in people with low immune defense system. So to answer your question plantar warts will not get spread through clothing.

Answer 10

Warts can spread.: Warts can spread through entire gym classes. So they must be able to survive lying on damp shower floors for a period of time. Oddly enough, I have rarely seen two members of the same family with plantar warts.

Answer 11

I'm not sure : Plantar warts can spread. Not sure anyone has conducted such an experiment before with socks in a communal bathroom.

Answer 12

Worry Wart.: Not as well as the ones that are necessarily thick. Don't worry yourself as to whether or not a certain activity will enable warts to spread. Do your best to protect yourself by using common sense. Even then, your best may not be good enough.

Answer 13

Warts: Plantar Warts are viruses that can get transferred from someone with infected hands. Wear flip flops in the gym's shower and don't walk barefooted.

Answer 14

Neither, they just-: -happen. Athletes foot is a different can of worms.

Answer 15

Dehydrate to kill.: Plantar warts love moisture. Many ways of eradicating them include removing the moisture from their environ. Virus left on shower floors is a perfect contamination scenario. Micro cuts in the skin allow the virus to infect. Heat, darkness and moisture, as often found on the foot, allow them to spread. Walking barefoot on wet, rough surfaced floors is like asking to be infected. Use shower shoes.

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