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Plantar wart prevention
Introduction
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.
Prevention
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
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]