Warts – a quick overview…

1.    It is children and teenagers who are most susceptible to warts, with many experts suggesting that one in every ten children or teenagers will suffer warts.
2.    Warts are extremely contagious, with the most common cause of infection being direct contact with another wart sufferer. However, the infection can also be spread by contact with anything carrying the bacteria that cause warts, such as dirty clothing, towels and so on.
3.    If you want to avoid warts, practicing good hygiene and staying clean is the primary and easiest way of doing so. In addition, shoes should always be worn in public places if at all possible.
4.    If your warts will not go away, you might need to seek the advice and attention of a doctor or dermatologist. Before doing so, however, there are plenty of natural treatments that you can try to use to get rid of your warts yourself (and of course, you are going to read of these treatments in this book).
5.    Using home remedies is not generally effective if you are trying to get rid of genital warts. In this situation, medical advice is definitely necessary.
6.    Warts are benign tumors that are confined to the epidermal layers of the skin. They occur when the skin cells known as keratinocytes become infected.

According to Wikipedia, there are around 130 different strains of HPV, a proportion of which cause several types of warts. Others are known to cause cancer, while there are strains of HPV that appear to have little or no effect.

Everyone who is infected by HPV will react differently to other people simply because every human being is different. Indeed, at any given moment, there are probably millions of people all over the world who have been infected with one strain of HPV or another who are not going to develop any kind of wart problem.

While the most common types of warts tend to develop on the fingers and hands, it is possible for different kind of warts to develop anywhere on the body, including the genital and rectal area, and even inside the mouth.