Liquid nitrogen cryotherapy for warts

Anyone can get warts, and the incubation period is relatively long. Warts are most common on the hands and feet. Although it is a skin disease, you won’t feel anything, but it will affect your appearance. You will always feel embarrassed when shaking hands with others. Over time, it will affect interpersonal relationships and cause psychological disorders. So how should warts be treated? The better treatment method now is liquid nitrogen freezing. Let’s talk about it in detail below.

Liquid nitrogen cryotherapy refers to a new technology in the field of modern therapeutics. It can kill viruses through extremely rapid freezing. People with severe cold urticaria cannot use this method for treatment. Liquid nitrogen cryotherapy is a comprehensive effect of cryobiology. Normal cells will suffer irreversible damage when they are in an extremely frozen state. It works by rapidly killing the cells in the diseased area in an extremely frozen state, allowing the diseased area to recover normally. It is generally used to treat warts, corns, verrucae, neurodermatitis and skin diseases. Severe cold urticaria, cryoglobulinemia, Raynaud's disease, and a small number of elderly, weak, and those who cannot tolerate cryotherapy. Patients with diabetes and lower limb blood circulation disorders often develop chronic ulcers that do not heal for a long time if they undergo cryotherapy on their calves and feet. Cryotherapy should be used with caution.

Different warts can be treated with different methods. More people choose to use freezing and laser to treat common warts. These two methods are quick, thorough, simple and easy to treat common warts with few side effects. In addition, for multiple or fused warts with a large area, a comprehensive treatment is adopted, that is, oral Chinese medicine is combined with external Chinese medicine or cytotoxic drugs to promote the shedding of warts. Specific operation: Use liquid nitrogen freezing, electric cautery or carbon dioxide laser or cooperate with surgical removal.

Precautions after liquid nitrogen freezing: 1. After cryotherapy, the wound surface should be kept clean and dry, and should not be exposed to water within one week. Apply antibiotic ointment daily to prevent infection. Allow the scab to fall off naturally; do not scratch, tear, or scrub it with your hands. 2. After treatment, local tissue pain may occur, which will disappear on its own after 1-2 days. Painkillers can be taken if necessary. 3. If local tissues become swollen, have blisters or bullae after treatment, and there is too much blister fluid, you can use a sterile syringe to draw it out or puncture it, but do not tear off the blister wall. It is more obvious in areas with loose tissue, such as around the eye sockets or with tender skin. 4. If the lesion is not healed after one treatment and needs to be repeated, wait until the scab falls off by itself before repeating the treatment. 5. Generally, after cryotherapy, there is depigmentation in the center of the lesion and pigmentation around it. Especially after receiving cryotherapy on the face, you should pay attention to shading and sun protection to avoid aggravating local pigmentation. 6. If there are blood vessels or the frozen area is too deep, some patients may experience delayed edema, exudation, blood blisters, bleeding, chronic ulcers, hypertrophic scars, non-healing of the wound surface, etc., and active symptomatic treatment should be given early. Special attention should be paid when treating the face. 7. Some patients may experience local neurological dysfunction, such as skin numbness and pain, which generally recover gradually within 3-6 months.

Patients with common warts should be careful not to share daily necessities such as towels, washbasins, etc. with others to prevent infection of others. They should also pay attention to regularly disinfect and sterilize items used by the patients. Urge patients to keep exercising, which will help improve their physical fitness, strengthen their physique and play a good role in preventing diseases. The diet should not be too spicy and irritating, and eating more vegetables and fruits and supplementing with multiple vitamins, especially vitamin B6, will be very helpful in preventing skin diseases.