Plantar wart prevention

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Although immunization is available for the HPV and strains causing cervical cancer and venereal warts, there is currently no vaccination treatment for plantar warts.

• 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.

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