Spike on the leg: the specifics of the disease and popular treatment methods

The sensation of a foreign body in the skin of the foot, pain and burning may indicate the presence of a spinal cord in a person. A spike on the leg is nothing more than a wart. Most often, a plantar wart appears in the parts of the foot that experience the most stress when walking. Much less often this seal appears on the palms or fingers.

Externally, the spike on the leg is almost no different from the plantar wart. The joint can be slightly convex, which gives patients additional inconvenience in the form of pain, discomfort, as well as problems when choosing shoes.

However, it is impossible to get rid of a thorn like a wart. Conventional cosmetic procedures of sawing or cutting keratinized skin will not have the desired effect. Getting rid of a plantar wart can be very difficult. Often, to solve this unpleasant problem, patients need to consult a doctor.

Despite the specificity of the disease, the spine can also be removed using alternative therapeutic methods. The main thing is to choose the most effective and safest treatment option for your health and consult a doctor first.

What is a spike on the leg: symptoms, causes and signs

The spike has a viral nature. This name was given to education due to the sensations that a person experiences while walking. Usually, people feel stabbing sensations, similar to a thorn prick.

How is it formed?

The formation of a plantar wart begins with the appearance of a white nodule on the sole of the foot, protruding slightly above the surface of the skin. Later, with development, the formation begins to look like corns or keratinized corns.The size of the spine usually reaches 1-1. 5 cm.

At the base of the spine are not the usual accumulations of horny cells, but filiform growths. These growths are able to penetrate very deep into the tissues. Thus, they affect nerve fibers and cause pain in a person.

The spine may appear as a single formation or a large group of warts. With the appearance of numerous spines, one, the largest, the "mother" spine can be distinguished. All other "daughter" warts are much smaller and are located around. Many plantar warts cause a person a lot of discomfort and are very difficult to treat.

causes

There is only one reason for the appearance of warts on the foot - it ishuman papillomavirus.

Important: There is an opinion that parasites in the intestines can become the cause of prickly. In fact, this is a medically unfounded misconception.

The scheme of virus infection is quite simple. All a person has to do is scratch their skin. After that, the virus enters the human body and enters the genes of skin cells. Then the cells deform and begin to look like a tumor, turning into a wart.

Most often, the infection occurs in childhood. Usually, children are infected with the virus in kindergartens, schools, on beaches or in public showers. Only children with weakened immunity get sick.

Appearing in childhood, the spine disappears in the period of growth. Since the immunity of an adult is stronger, warts appear very rarely.

The risks of virus transmission increase when the wearer's feet are injured. Scratches, blisters, cuts and abrasions are dangerous for people who are not infected with the virus. There are several factors that provoke the papillomavirus in the body:

1. perspiration of the soles;
2. narrow, uncomfortable shoes;
3. non-breathable rubber shoes;
4. stress.

Symptoms and signs of the disease

Spike is an extremely unpleasant disease. The sensations caused by a plantar wart will significantly affect a person's quality of life. This manifestation of the papillomavirus is one of the most difficult. The main symptom of spinal cord is pain. It can accompany a person throughout the time until the wart is removed. The pain can be intense and is especially common when walking or running.

The spine can also hurt due to its tearing. Since there is a roll of tissue around the wart, its detachment very often leads to severe, sharp pain and even bleeding. It is not safe to damage a wart. If this still happened, it is necessary to treat the wound with peroxide and seal it with a breathable adhesive bandage. Until the moment of complete healing of the wound, care should be taken to keep shoes and socks clean.

Another characteristic symptom of the spinal cord is discomfort when walking. This sensation is similar to pressure in the tissues. Patients describe it as feeling like a stone in a shoe. This is the first symptom of thorns. But the pain is related later, with the development of the disease and the growth of the plantar wart.

Differences Between Thorns and Corns

Distinguishing a thorn from a corn is very easy. You can do this after taking a hot bath or shower. The steamed skin at the location of the formation becomes "hairy". In the middle of the wart is one or more black dots. It is from these blackheads that the filamentous process penetrates inside the skin. Unlike a corn, a wart never stops growing.

A corn is more uniform than a wart. The cob is heterogeneous, it looks like a cauliflower. There is a recess in the center and the entire surface structure is covered with small recesses.

Important: A thorn, like any wart, is a benign formation on the human body. The risks of his rebirth are quite high. Tissue damage, stress and weakened immunity can trigger the process of spinal tissue malignancy. Therefore, patients should consult a doctor in a timely manner to combat the wart and its effective removal.

So the differences are:

• Corn has a uniform structure;
• Corn does not cause pain;
• It can be easily removed with a file and smoothing procedures;
• The callus skin is very thick and convex, on the wart it is uneven, with depressions and villi.

How to remove a spike on the leg? Therapy methods

There are several options for removing the peak. First of all, you should consult a doctor and get medical help. Doctors offer several instrumental methods for removing the spine.

Electrocautery

This method is very simple and does not take much time. Usually, patients only need one procedure, during which the doctor can remove several small warts at once. Usually, an electrocoagulation session takes only 1-1. 5 minutes. The time spent depends on the size of the warts and their total number. Local anesthesia is used to remove plantar warts.

Before the procedure, the doctor treats the skin with antiseptics. After that, the loop of the electrocoagulator is adjusted around the spine, due to which the device thermally treats the tissues and leads to the death of the wart. The temperature at which tissues are cauterized is 800°C. This temperature cauterizes the blood vessels, which helps protect a person from bleeding. After the session, a crust forms on the skin, which falls off when the tissues are completely healed.

Removal of plantar warts with laser

Before starting the procedure, patients should be examined. This allows you to understand the depth of the wart in the skin. In the absence of such a review, removal may be ineffective. Doctors determine the depth of penetration into the tissues of the antennae of the spine and carry out the procedure. Before starting the procedure, the doctor injects an anesthetic injection under the wart. Once the patient feels that the painkiller has started to work, the doctor puts on glasses and proceeds with the session.

While working with a laser, the doctor removes layered pathological tissues and at the same time cauterizes the vessels that supply the spine. Laser treatment is carried out until the root system of the wart is completely destroyed. After removing the spine with a laser, the patient is left with a small burn. This burn requires constant treatment with antiseptics. The wound itself should be covered with dry gauze and a bandage. The duration of the removal session depends on the number of thorns and their size.

Cryotherapy

This procedure involves removing the tip with liquid nitrogen. When removing thorns in this way, antispasmodics are almost never used, the procedure is painless. In some cases (with large spines, thin skin), painkillers are still used. The procedure is carried out in two different ways - with a catheter or a cotton swab. The latter option is used much more often.

The doctor wipes the skin with antiseptics, dips a cotton swab in liquid nitrogen and touches the tip with it. Exposure to a wart should last about 5 to 30 seconds. The exposure time depends on the size of the wart. Longer exposure to nitrogen is necessary if the patient has a large and deep spine. In this case, the nitrogen must penetrate all layers of the skin, down to the very root of the wart, and therefore the exposure to nitrogen can last 25-35 seconds. After the freezing process, the skin acquires a white-pink tint, which indicates the death of skin cells.

In almost 100% of cases, a medium-sized bulla appears in patients the day after the procedure. Such a reaction of the skin to low temperatures is completely normal and indicates the effectiveness of the session. Clear or reddish fluid may accumulate inside the bladder. You should not be afraid of it, because this process indicates that certain layers of the skin have been affected during cryotherapy. The top of the bubble is usually the spine itself.

Spike on the leg: surgical treatment

In the event that no method of removal of the spine helps to get rid of the disease, patients are advised to consult a doctor and surgically remove the formation. The advantages of the method are numerous:

1. High probability of complete elimination.
2. Effective in removing particularly deep thorns.
3. Minimal risk of recurrence.

Local anesthesia is also used during the procedure. During the session, the doctor removes all pathological tissue and sutures the wound. However, the procedure also has drawbacks:

1. The scars remain after the session.
2. Healing time is longer.
3. deep incisions can hurt even a few days after surgery.

The choice of the method by which the spine will be removed depends on the effect of past methods of struggle. In addition, the doctor relies on the results of the diagnosis and the general history.

How to treat the thorn: drugs

Medicines help to get rid of the spikes on the soles of the feet quite well. Today in the pharmacy you can find a variety of drugs with necrotizing properties, which allows you to quickly and effectively get rid of the problem.

If you suffer from the manifestations of thorns and do not know how to remove them, you should pay attention to the reviews of such funds:

• Cauterization solution, which has in its composition two main active substances - meta-cresol and phenol. These components have a poisonous property, which allows you to irrevocably destroy the tip cells. It should be borne in mind that the drug can affect the human nervous system. Thus, the drug should be used only in accordance with the instructions.
• A folk remedy for thorns, which has an affordable cost and good effectiveness. In its composition, it contains refrigerants that allow the substance to be used to treat people of practically all age categories.
• A special and practical medical pencil, capable of getting rid of thorns in the shortest possible time. The peculiarity of the product is that it contains silver nitrate. It is he who has a bactericidal effect on the affected tissues.
• A budget tool with an aggressive, searing property. Sold in pharmacies in the form of a concentrated solution. When removing the tip, you must be careful not to accidentally apply the product to healthy tissue. If the liquid still gets on the skin, it should be thoroughly rinsed off with water and treated with citric or acetic acid (5%).
• A universal remedy with birch tar, which has anti-inflammatory and disinfectant properties. However, it should be remembered that in the treatment of spurs it is absolutely impossible to combine this drug with other drugs.
• A special patch that is treated with salicylic acid. It softens the ends and helps to remove them freely. This patch cannot be used if a child, a pregnant woman has warts.

A spike on the soles of the feet is a tissue disease that can cause a person significant pain and discomfort in the future. Self-treatment with medication without first consulting a doctor is not recommended.

Treatments with folk methods

In some cases, it is quite possible to remove the spikelet at home. However, one important factor should be taken into account - the disease should not be overlooked. Alternative methods of treatment can help you only if you follow regularity and use the remedy correctly.

If for some reason you cannot seek qualified help, there are several popular proven methods that can help you get rid of a hated problem.

Horseradish	The main value of horseradish in the processing of cobs is juice. For therapy, you need to grate horseradish on a fine grater and apply it to the warts. Legs before the procedure must first be steamed. The sore spot should be wrapped in polyethylene, then put on socks for the night. Continue the procedure until the complete disappearance of the disease.
Onion and vinegar	Another effective tool that allows you to get rid of the problem in 3 procedures. Onion should be grated until boiled and diluted with a small amount of vinegar. A thick patch is glued to the tip and a small hole is made in it, the finished product is placed there and sealed with another patch on top. Perhaps a person will feel discomfort and a slight burning sensation, but the remedy should be left until morning.
Nettle	Completely painless, but, unfortunately, a seasonal method. You need to take the leaves of young nettles and grind them to a porridge state. The resulting mixture should be applied to the tip and wrap the leg with a clean burdock leaf. To keep this design in place, socks should be worn over the legs. In the morning, the skin condition will improve significantly, and the wart will be removed along with the dead layer of the epidermis.
Potato	Raw potatoes should be grated on a fine grater, but the juice is not squeezed out. The mixture should be applied to a cotton ball and applied to the wart. For fixation, you can use a sterile bandage. The procedure should be repeated each time 2 times a day. The only drawback of processing potato cobs is the long duration of treatment, which lasts at least 2 weeks.
Sulfur	Rather painful, but effective method of treatment. Sulfur for the treatment of tips can be extracted from ordinary matches. It needs to be cleaned of heads. In the wart, you need to make a small indentation, which can be done with nail scissors or a needle (sterile), then pour sulfur into it and set it on fire. This procedure should be performed with extreme caution. The peak disappears after the first procedure.

Another incredible, yet extremely popular method for sizzling is raw meat. You should buy fresh meat that has never been refrigerated. A small piece should be applied to the warts and left for a while. In the future, the meat will have to be buried in the ground. As soon as the meat is completely rotten, the spikes disappear.

There are reviews about the home treatment of warts, in some cases people use extremely extraordinary folk methods that also help in the fight against the disease. Here are a few :

• cement - helps destroy warts in 2-3 sessions.
• nail polish - helps to prevent the supply of oxygen to the wart, due to which it dies in a short time;
• vinegar cakes - it is necessary to knead a hard dough on vinegar and apply a raw cake to the affected leg at night.

In order for the spike on the leg to pass as quickly as possible, the following rules should be followed:

1. monitor foot hygiene, prevent the appearance of fungi and other viruses;
2. increase the protective functions of immunity - organize a proper diet, which includes a sufficient amount of vitamins, minerals;
3. to avoid leg injuries when walking, it is best to use soft socks and soft shoes during treatment.

If you cannot cope with the spike on your own, you should contact your dermatologist immediately. He will examine you and prescribe the necessary treatment.