Genital wart is a sexually transmitted disease caused by human papillomavirus infection. It has an incubation period of about 3 months and is easy to occur around the genitals and anus. With the development of medicine, Genital wart can be treated with microwave therapy, cryotherapy, laser therapy, surgical resection and other methods.
What is the treatment of Genital wart?
1. Cryotherapy
Cryotherapy is to use liquid nitrogen or carbon dioxide dry ice to freeze Genital wart, forming local high edema of tissue, leading to local necrosis of skin damage, and ultimately destroying the wart body. This method does not leave any marks locally, but during the treatment process, the local area is red, swollen, painful, and has blisters, making it suitable for flattening small warts. The price is cheap and easy to operate, but it cannot truly remove the virus and has a high recurrence rate. Special parts cannot be used.
2. Microwave therapy
Microwave therapy utilizes high-frequency microwave vibration to evaporate the water inside the wart, causing it to necrotize and shed. It can completely destroy the wart body and is not prone to recurrence, but the wound recovery is slow and secondary infections are prone to occur. This treatment is far away from Genital wart of prepuce band to avoid damaging the prepuce band and affecting its function.
3. Surgical resection
The large and independent wart body can be removed by surgery, but Genital wart is easy to recur after surgery. To reduce the recurrence rate, it is necessary to cooperate with other treatments after surgery.
4. Electrocautery therapy
The electric cautery treatment is to directly remove the wart body with a high-frequency electric knife, but the electric cautery wound healing speed is slow, which can be used for the treatment of various Genital wart, but the doctor's technical requirements must be high, and attention should be paid to Aseptic technique to prevent infection.
5. Laser therapy
The superficial Genital wart around the vulva or anus can be treated by laser, which has a quick effect. The commonly used method is to burn the wart body with carbon dioxide laser. Generally, the wart body can fall off once. Because the laser beam is concentrated, it is suitable for Genital wart of the wart body.
6. Photodynamic therapy
The photosensitizer is applied externally to the wart body. After a certain period of time, the wart body absorbs the photosensitizer, and then irradiates the lesion with light of a specific wavelength. Through photochemical or photobiological reactions, free radicals are generated, which oxidize and destroy Genital wart tissues and viruses, causing irreversible damage to cells with abnormal proliferation and activity, and ultimately killing Genital wart cells. So far, photodynamic therapy is the best treatment method with low recurrence rate, non-invasive, and can better eliminate latent viruses.