How to Treat Warts on Your Feet

Warts begin when the plantar wart virus enters the foot through microscopic cuts and scratches, gaining enough of a stronghold to form a wart. It can be very difficult to get rid of a foot wart.

Things You'll Need

• Mild Detergents
• 40% Salicylic Acid Solutions Plaster
• Adhesive Bandages
• Antibiotic Creams
• Cotton Swabs
• Rubbing Alcohol
• Wart Streatments
• Scissors

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Instructions

• 1

  Wash all equipment in soap and water. Rinse with alcohol or antiseptic.

• 2

  Put two tbsp. mild household detergent in half-gallon of warm water. Soak foot for ten minutes.

• 3

  Cut out a square of 40% salicylic acid plaster, about the size of the wart, and remove backing to expose self-stick surface.

• 4

  Apply sticky side directly on wart. Push down and cover with adhesive bandage.

• 5

  Keep plaster on wart and keep dry for two days.

• 6

  After two days, carefully remove adhesive bandage and plaster. The wart should be whitish.

• 7

  Brush wart vigorously with old toothbrush, soap and water for one minute twice a day for two days.

• 8

  Expose wart to air as much as possible.

• 9

  Talk to a podiatrist about removing the wart with a carbon dioxide laser unit. After the doctor administers a local anesthetic, a focused laser light beam will vaporize your wart. Most insurance companies cover the cost of laser wart removal.

• 10

  Ask your foot doctor about debriding your warts with a 30- to 70 percent trichloroacetic acid solution. Debriding often requires five or six treatments. If after the tenth debriding treatment, the wart still comes back, your doctor may consider surgically removing it.