Tuesday 30 October 2012

Medicines For Wart Removal - Why Most Doctors Choose Them

By Alison MacQuire


When patients set up appointments with doctors because of their skin wart problems, the doctors often present two options to them. They can, in the first instance, decide to remove warts through 'procedures' like cryosurgery, laser treatment, electrodessication and so on. The other option would be medication. There are medicines that the doctors can prescribe which will gradually bring about an end to the skin warts. Given those two options, many doctors tend to opt for the treatment of warts using medications. The procedures, on the other hand, are only seen as last resorts by the doctors and not really their first choice of treatments. If, no matter what medication is used, the skin warts still persist, that is the only time they will turn to medical procedures for the solution or cure. Now let us try to look at the reasoning of most doctors for choosing medication over the medical procedures to be used to remove skin warts.

Medications are less time consuming. That is the first reason why doctors have a preference for medications. It would take a lot of time to plan and organize the medical procedures such as laser treatment, electrodessication, and cryosurgery. On the other hand, medications are often found to be more effective than the treatments, and they are definitely simpler and faster to dispense.

Medications also involve less mess once they are used or administered to take care of skin wart problems. There are medications that have to be ingested, while there are others that will work just by rubbing them on the affected area of the skin. Using them can't be compared to undertaking medical procedures where sharp instruments or strong light beams are used, where anesthesia is applied, and where so many things could end up going wrong. If possible, these doctors would choose the noninvasive methods. There is a risk that they will be sued if something goes wrong during an invasive procedure or surgery.

Then there is the effectiveness. The mere fact that these medications are often found to be more effective than the medical treatments is enough reason for doctors to choose them as treatments. For example, there is salicylic acid. According to some studies, using salicylic acid in medications would be more beneficial to the person taking it. Doctors want only the best for their patients. Such doctors, knowing that their patients are likely to get better results if they opt to get the warts removed using the medications are, naturally, likely to lead the patients in that direction.

The HP virus, the one that causes the warts to appear, should be dealt with, and that is what these medications do. Physically visible warts are the only ones that are addressed and dealt with by the medical procedures. The HP virus is largely ignored and left to thrive and cause other warts. And that raises the probability of the wart growing again even after it has been surgically or otherwise eliminated.




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