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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Although immunization is available for the HPV and strains causing [[cervical cancer]] and [[venereal warts]], there is currently no vaccination treatment for plantar warts. | Although immunization is available for the HPV and strains causing [[cervical cancer]] and [[venereal warts]], there is currently no vaccination treatment for plantar warts. | ||
==Prevention== | |||
* Avoid walking barefoot in public areas such as showers, communal changing rooms. (Covering with an adhesive bandage is not a safe method as it will not last for long at all, especially while showering or swimming) | |||
* Change shoes and socks daily. | |||
* Avoid sharing shoes and socks. | |||
* Avoid direct contact with warts on other parts of body. | |||
* Avoid direct contact with warts on other persons. | |||
==References== | ==References== |
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Overview
Although immunization is available for the HPV and strains causing cervical cancer and venereal warts, there is currently no vaccination treatment for plantar warts.
Prevention
- Avoid walking barefoot in public areas such as showers, communal changing rooms. (Covering with an adhesive bandage is not a safe method as it will not last for long at all, especially while showering or swimming)
- Change shoes and socks daily.
- Avoid sharing shoes and socks.
- Avoid direct contact with warts on other parts of body.
- Avoid direct contact with warts on other persons.