What is Genital Warts and Causes?
Genital warts, which are also called condylomata acuminata or venereal warts, are growths in the genital area caused by a sexually transmitted papillomavirus or HPV. A papillomavirus is a virus that produces papillomas, or benign growths on the skin and mucous membranes.
This particular virus has more than one hundred variations and there a few that cause genital warts.
Genital Warts or "HPV" is one of the most common STD's worldwide.
The most common way of attaining these warts from an infected individual is through direct skin-to-skin contact with an infected area. This is usually via oral, vaginal or anal sex.
There are commonly no symptoms associated with these growths and they sometimes don’t appear until months or even years after contact.
Occasionally they cause itching, burning, pain and bleeding.
It is even possible to never develop warts and still be infected.
Genital warts in the mouth typically appear as bumps or raised lesions that are cauliflower-like in appearance. They may also appear fleshy or even dark and are sometimes extremely difficult to recognize.
Genital strains of HPV can be spread to your mouth but it is not that common. You can transfer human papillomavirus from your mouth to your partner’s mouth or genitals at any time that the virus is present, even when you don’t have visible lesions yourself. The virus likes to live in warm and moist places because they are more conducive for growth. Also, a decreased immune system for either party can increase the risk of infection.
Genital warts appear in clusters, which can grow larger and larger. They have an irregular shape, and can be almost cauliflower shape.
Both men and women are equally at risk. In men, the warts appear on the penis and around and inside the anal area. In women, they can emerge around the vaginal area, around and inside the anus, and up into the vagina. They may itch, but are usually painless.
Both men and women can get the warts in their mouth and down the throat after engaging in oral sex.
HPV can become dangerous. It is more common in women and is the most common cause of cervical cancer. This virus can also cause cancer in men. Eighty percent of all cervical cancers are caused by HPV.
Treatment can decrease the risk and occurrence of cancer. Some topical medications can help. Your physician / health care provider, dentist and or oral surgeon will determine which treatment option is best for you for sure.
There are several different options available to phsicains. The most intrusive can involve burning the genital wart with a lazer, cryotheraphy (freezing the wart), using electrocautery (burning the wart with high voltage), or surgically removing the wart.
Doing at home treatment for genital warts naturally
There are multiple reasons holistic treatments for genital are selected instead of traditional treatments by many individuals. Physicians themselves do not know how to get rid of genital warts; making it difficult to keep coming back to get genital warts removed. Costly surgical procedures often leave scars, are painful, and require a significant amount of healing time. Conversely, natural remedies are capable of removing genital warts in just 3 days and cost next to nothing to use. Additionally, natural treatments are much safer than surgery and will not leave terrible scars.
There are a wide variety of natural treatments for genital warts available. Because there are many different treatment options, knowing how to get rid of genital warts may take some research. Although the best natural treatments work in just 3 days, most take a minimum of six weeks to kill a wart; with others take several months to work.
William Boericke, M.D. has been write "characteristic and guiding symptoms" for Homeopathic Materia Medica. The ingredient has been found to have a particular affinity or affect for those symptoms.
Practitioners the world over consider this Materia Medica, originally published in 1927, a standard for clinical practice.
The common name for the ingredient is listed first, followed by the Latin, or scientific name.
- Black Sulphide of Antimony Antimony crudum
"Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Atrophy of penis and testicles. Parts itch. Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night."
- Wild Yellow Indigo Baptisia tinctoria
"Indescribable sick feeling. All secretions are offensive' breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc. Produces a form of anti-bodies to the bac. [bacilli] Typhosus, viz., the agglutinins.
Thus it raises the natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which produces typhoid syndrome. Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated. Tongue feels burned; yellowish-brown; edges red and shining. Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening edges; surface cracked and sore. Livid spots all over the skin. Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration."
- Potassium Hydrate Causticum"The skin of a Causticum person is of a dirty white sallow, with warts, especially on the face. Burning, rawness and soreness are characteristic. Soreness in folds of skin, between thighs. Warts large, jagged, bleeding easily. Rectum sore and burns."
- Nitric Acid Nutricum Acidum
"Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where the mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain as from splinters. Sticking pains. Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All discharges very offensive, especially urine feces, and perspiration. Soreness and burning in glans and beneath prepuce. External parts sore, with ulcers. Warts, large jagged; bleed on washing. Ulcers bleed easily, sensitive, splinter-like pains; zigzag irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh. Exuberant granulations."
- Arbor Vitae or, Tree of Life Thuja Occidentalis
"Acts on skin, blood, gastro-intestinal tract, kidneys, and brain."
The main action of Thuja is on the skin and genitor-urinary organs, producing conditions that correspond with Hahnemann's sycotic dyscrasia, whose chief manifestation is the formation of wart-like excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces, figwarts and condylomata. Has specific antibacterial actions. Inflammation of the prepuce and glans; pain in penis. Chronic induration of testicles, Vagina very sensitive. Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum. Polypi; fleshy excrescences. On skin, polypi, warts epithelioma, carbuncles; ulcers, especially in ano-genital region. Dry skin with brown spots, herpetic eruptions. Eruptions only on covered parts; worse after scratching.
Treatment for Prevention
The surest way to prevent contracting an STD / Genital Warts is to advise your adolescent to abstain from any type of sexual activity. Some recommended by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). These measures include the following:
- Have a mutually monogamous sexual relationship with an uninfected partner
- Use (consistently and correctly) a male condom
- Use sterile needles if injecting intravenous (IV) drugs if you use a drug
- Decrease susceptibility to HIV infections by preventing and controlling other STDs
- Delay having sexual relationships as long as possible (the younger a person is when they begin to have sex for the first time, the more susceptible they become to developing an STD/genital warts)
- Have regular checkups for STDs/Genital warts
- Learn the symptoms of STDs/Genital warts and seek medical help as soon as possible if any symptoms develop
- Avoid having sexual intercourse during menstruation
- Avoid anal intercourse, or use a male condom
- Avoid douching
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