What is the best way to treat flat warts?

Flat warts are skin diseases caused by papillomavirus infection. Flat warts usually occur in teenagers or children, as well as many people with low immunity. Some flat warts can heal themselves, but most of them are contagious and need to be treated with medical methods. Common methods include injection, oral administration and topical application. Choose the appropriate treatment plan according to the patient's condition.

What are the treatments for flat warts?

1. For the treatment of flat warts with oral medication, the medication needs to be taken orally, absorbed by the internal organs, and then transported to the skin through the blood before it can exert its therapeutic effect. During this entire process, the treatment effect is not ideal due to the long distance of drug transportation and the large loss of drug potency.

2. Injection of hormone transfer factor is a commonly used method of Western medicine to treat flat warts. The treatment principle is to use transfer factors to enhance the body's immune function. Because this is an indirect treatment method that relies on the body's own immune system to kill the virus rather than drugs directly killing the flat warts virus, the cure rate is very low, especially for patients who have had flat warts for many years.

3. Laser or freezing treatment of flat warts is a direct and rapid treatment method mostly used in hospitals. This method can remove epidermal flat warts in a very short time. The flat wart virus is under the epidermis. Laser and freezing can only remove the flat wart particles on the surface, but the virus under the skin that causes the growth of flat warts is not eliminated. Therefore, this method cannot play a fundamental therapeutic role. Many patients who have been treated with this method will have flat warts reappear after a few months. Not only that, laser and cryotherapy for flat warts can easily leave unsightly scars on the epidermis, which are difficult to remove once left. Therefore, it is recommended that patients with flat warts should carefully choose laser and freezing methods when treating flat warts.

To sum up, we can clearly define the selection criteria for the best treatment drugs and methods for flat warts: no scars, and the drug efficacy can directly act on the virus.

While using safe treatment methods, it will be more helpful for treatment if you can eat coix seed or wash your face with coix seed water. If eating coix seed alone does not taste good, you can cook porridge with red beans or mung beans. Long-term consumption can enhance immunity and help treat flat warts.