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Causes of Warts - 2 Causes of Warts that You Can Protect Yourself From.
If you still think that touching frogs is one of the major sources of warts, then you really do have a lot to learn. In reality, warts are the results of HPV infection (the scientific term is "human papillomavirus"). Although there are many natural remedies that you can use to get rid of warts in a matter of weeks or months, once you have the virus in your body, there is always a risk that warts will reappear after a period of time.
Anyone who has had warts once is never truly safe again. Therefore, in the first part of this article, you will learn some of the ways in which warts can get into your body and start wreaking some serious havoc.
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The exact type of wart that you get - facial wart, hand or genital - depends on the form of HPV that you are suffering from. Genital warts, for example, are transmitted mainly through sex, and the best way to protect yourself is to use a condom. Remember that birth control may prevent babies, but it sure won't stop those nasty cauliflowers growing in all sorts of wrong places! As genital warts thrive in moist places, women are particularly at risk, especially as vaginal warts are impossible to detect without the help of a gynecologist.
Of course, sex is not the only way to contract warts. For example, you can develop hand and facial warts simply by coming into contact with the respective strain of HPV. Plantar warts are especially easy to get in public showers and changing rooms. If you have a cut on your foot, that's a great way for HPV to get into your body - they will not spread through your blood stream, but will instead treating even the smallest wound as an opportunity to get into your body and start growing. Other warts find it more difficult to take room and need to actually get into your blood stream before they can start growing.
HPV is an unusual virus in that it can take months to show signs of its presence in your body. For example, if those nasty warts manage to find their way inside you, it may take months before the first cauliflower-shaped growth appears. For this reason, tracing the causes of warts can be extremely difficult, as there is no telling just when exactly you got the virus in the first place.
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