Warts: the causes of the appearance and development of the virus
Long-term studies of scientists have proved that the cause of the appearance of warts is the human papilloma virus, which in modern conditions is extremely common.
It is known that almost every person today is infected with some kind of papillomatosis virus, and its spread around the world is growing every day inexorably. At present, 118 species of the virus are known, and each of its types associates itself with some kind of human disease.
Even if we consider warts on the face - the reasons are different, because the body cells can be infected with different types of viruses, and more than six dozen of them cause skin epithelial diseases, the rest - affects the various epithelium of the mucous membranes, in the first place - the genital organs of man.
Possible Ways to Infect Warts
Most often a person becomes infected through direct contact, including - and sexual, with a sick person or carrier, who may not even suspect the existence of a virus in the body, but continues to actively allocate it to the external environment.
Much less often, infection occurs through household appliances.
It is proved that if a person has warts, the reason is always hidden in the fact that the virus penetrates the body through small, inconspicuous damage to the eye, especially skin injury and cuts contribute to the disease.
People who have an active papilloma virus in the body, people with weakened immunity, are more often infected.
The virus affects only the skin of the person and its mucous membranes, there it is preserved, but it can also be dispersed in the body when transferring the infection from the sick epithelium to healthy and with blood( very rarely).
If warts are found on the legs - the causes are most often hidden in the virus through small injuries of the skin, which are on the feet a lot.
Plantar warts and the causes of their development
In order to understand how the disease develops, it is necessary to present the structure of the skin. On the cut, when studying with a large increase, it is clearly seen that it consists of several layers.
Cells of the epidermis are divided in the lowest layer - basal, and ripen as they move toward the surface, horny layer. Normally, sloughing begins only at the moment when the cell reaches the stratum corneum.
There are two states of a virus capable of causing warts: inactive - with it the virus is in the basal layer, where its division is extremely slow, and at the same time it never rises to the surface of the skin, therefore it is harmless.
In the active state, the virus multiplies rapidly and can be detected in all layers of the skin, including in the surface, so that the virus can spread quickly.
The structure of the skin on the sole is such that the virus gets the possibility of concentric spreading, and if a wart is formed on the heel, then it grows "spreads" surrounding tissues with growth, squeezing the nerve endings.
That's why when you try to step on the wart there is a lot of pain. And in cases where warts are located on the foot - the causes of the disease are exactly the same, but the type of spread of the virus is different, such formations are flat, and neighboring areas of the skin are practically not injured, so the pain is less.
Causes and features of the development of warts in children
In cases where there are warts in children - the causes remain the same as in adults, but the development of the disease has its own characteristics, because the immune system of the baby's body is imperfect and the causative agent is able to uncontrolled reproduction.
It's important to remember that children get minor skin lesions much more often than adults, and they have an extremely wide range of contacts, and it's enough to play for a few minutes with a toy with which a child with active papillomatosis virus was active in the body.
After studying the causes of the development of warts, it becomes clear how the disease is treated by the various treatment methods proposed for their removal, and why it is impossible to cure the papillomatosis completely.
It is important to remember that all techniques affecting the wart itself can only destroy or remove this superficial benign neoplasm, but can not completely free the body from the virus.
The most rational way to treat warts are those that require excision or destruction of excessive skin growth and carrying out activities that help restore normal activity of the body's immune system.