Co2 Treatment For Warts

Lasers have become a common and effective treatment.

Co2 treatment for warts.

This treatment if required will usually be carried out at the sk n epsom branch as that is where the special laser for this treatment lumenis ultrapulse co2 is located. Multiple viral warts of 13 patients with immunosuppression a majority of them renal allograft recipients were treated with co 2 laser in local or regional anesthesia. Unlike some other treatments laser therapy requires local anesthesia and can sometimes be accompanied by side effects such as pruritus surrounding the scar. Even with treatment warts tend to recur or spread.

This light is as effective as a sharp knife. All the patients were visited 1 week and 3. Doctors generally start with the least painful methods especially when treating young children. It might be a good choice if your warts are around your fingernails or toenails and other treatments haven t worked.

Treatment may take weeks or months. Co2 laser with continuous mode focused and defocused was used. In this study 40 patients with a total of 54 recalcitrant warts were treated with carbon dioxide lasers as previous treatments had proved ineffective. Co 2 laser ablation is a recommend treatment option for warts that present as refractory thick and extensive lesions.

Laser treatment works by removing the outer layer of the skin. In case of recurrences the lesions were treated again after. Modalities while the other had received no previous treatment. In fractional co2 laser treatment co2 laser beam fractionates or pixellates into the thousands of tiny little shafts of light.

The laser reduces post treatment scarring and is a safe form for eliminating wart lesions. A procedure known as co2 laser cautery is performed under local anesthesia either in your podiatrist s office surgical setting or an outpatient surgery facility. Self treatment is generally not advisable. Co2 laser treatment or fractional lasers surpass at treating the deep wrinkles blotchiness of skin acne scars traumatic facial scars warts or moles etc.

The goals of treatment are to destroy the wart stimulate an immune system response to fight the virus or both.