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Is There a Vitamin to Help Get Rid of Warts?

Found easily in food and supplements, vitamins may be the answer to healing and preventing your unsightly, troublesome warts. Vitamins A, C and E all work to treat warts. You might also find help from a few other basic home remedies. If vitamins don't relieve your symptoms you should contact your doctor.

  1. Vitamins to Get Rid of Warts

    • Fight your warts with vitamin A. There's evidence that vitamin A helps build your immune system and fights warts, as the author of the book "Doctors' Book of Home Remedies for Women" found. Look for vitamin A in sweet peas, carrots, leafy green vegetables and squash. If you don't get enough vitamin A from your diet alone, Herbs 2000, an online resource for alternative therapies, recommends taking 25,000 IU of vitamin A twice daily for 10 days. If you're pregnant don't take more than 5,000 IU daily.

      Vitamin C will also helps support your immune system. Vitamin C helps prevent future recurrences of warts. Take 1,000 mg of vitamin C three times a day. In addition to taking vitamin C orally, you also can apply it topically. Mix powdered vitamin C with water and spread it over your warts. If your warts are located on your genitals, make sure to dilute the vitamin C powder thoroughly, as these warts are particularly sensitive.

      Applying vitamin E topically also will help heal the affected area. Create a compress out of a piece of flannel, cotton or gauze and pour the contents of a vitamin E capsule onto the compress. Apply it to the affected area.

      After bathing, make sure to thoroughly dry your wart--as warts thrive in moist environments--and keeping it dry will reduce its chance of spreading. You also might find aloe vera gel soothing. To apply aloe vera gel, dab a small amount on a compress and apply it to the affected area. In addition to aloe vera gel, you also could try adding a few drops of tea tree oil to a compress. Tea tree oil has antiviral and antibacterial properties.

    When to Call Your Doctor

    • See your doctor if after two months of at-home treatments your warts don't go away. Your doctor may opt to apply liquid nitrogen or even a laser to remove stubborn warts. Also, women who shave their legs may benefit from getting a wart removed by a doctor, as shaving can spread the wart virus to other parts of their legs. If you develop a wart on your face see your dermatologist, as facial tissue is too delicate for at-home remedies.

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