Swift Wart Removal Therapy Brisbane

As the treatment involves a sudden increase in temperature, It's likely you will feel some discomfort, like a sharp sensation, similar to an injection. However, each dose of energy administered only last 2 seconds, so your discomfort will quickly subside. 

It will depend on the severity of the wart and your immune system response to the treatment, but generally, three treatments are required to successfully treat the wart. These treatments are spaced four weeks apart. 

The treatment has an 83% success rate, currently higher than any other treatment on the market. 

Generally, most of the population can receive this treatment. There are a few exceptions of people with certain medical conditions, but you can discuss this further with your podiatrist.

Swift uses microwaves, which are a form of non-ionising radiation, meaning they can not cause damage to the DNA of living things only infected wart tissue. Swift uses very low energy levels that are only able to vibrate the water molecules within skin cells.

No, we can actually treat any warts you may have from the elbows to your hands and from your knees down to the feet. 

No. All wart treatments are painful to some degree. If your pain tolerance is low then we recommend a local anaesthetic injection prior to treatment.

Warts disappear when the bodies immune system consumes the human papillomavirus.

Warts treated with traditional treatments such as salicylic acid, cryotherapy or wart surgery, use a noxious stimuli aimed at causing some sort of trauma to the warty and healthy surrounding skin to eliciting an immune system response. Unfortunately there is no only one treatment session solution currently available. Most patients require several treatments based on an evidence based treatment protocol.

Given HPV is a virus it requires a host cell to survive. They are sneaky in the way they infect our skin cells whereby they reprogram our cells in a way that our immune cells float by and only sees our cells.

A wart may shrink to a very small size, but if it's still active, it can come back. That's why it's very important to ensure that a wart is fully killed before stopping treatment. You'll be able to tell when a wart is fully killed because there will be absolutely no trace of the wart - aside from possibly lighter skin in the area. If there's even a small bump or dot the wart may still be active.

Untreated warts can stay for years. Eventually, the body will learn that a wart is a virus and fight it off and cause the wart to disappear. This can take around two years if untreated.

• Most general practitioners will commonly use liquid nitrogen to burn the wart but the success rate is 45%
• Salicylic acid 13%
• Laser requires a local anesthetic injection 79%
• Intralesional bleomycin is an antibiotic mainly used as a chemotherapy drug. Some studies have shown success rate of 83% but the intralesional (injection) use of the drug is not currently approved by the TGA.
• Podiatrists can offer surgical removal of warts by curettage. The success rates of 65% to 85% have been reported, but scarring and recurrence occur in up to 30% of patients.

If you're up for the challenge purchase either a Wart Off Stick or a do it yourself cryotherapy kit from your local pharmacy. Use as directed for four weeks. If either of these treatment options fail then consider professional intervention.

Prevention is certainly better than a cure! To minimise your chance of catching one, try the following tips:

Always wear shoes. Most warts are spread via communal areas like change rooms. Wearing shoes will help you make a barrier between your feet and the virus.

Don't share any foot related items. This includes nail clippers, shoes, pumice stones, razors, towels and socks. If you accidentally share any of these items with someone with a plantar wart, and then use it on yourself, you could unknowingly spread the virus to your feet.

If you already have one plantar wart, wash your hands anytime you touch it, this can reduce the risk of spreading it. Same goes if you happen to touch a plantar wart on a family member or partner.