Plantar Wart Treatment

It’s easy to get rid of plantar warts, the hard bumps on the bottoms of your feet caused by the pappiloma virus, with plantar wart treatment.

You can receive plantar wart treatment just by visiting your local drugstore and picking up an over-the-counter plantar wart treatment product. These plantar wart treatment products allow you to safely and easily remove a plantar wart.

If over-the-counter plantar wart treatment does not work to get rid of your plantar warts or keep them from returning, then you need to make an appointment with your doctor to discuss other options for plantar wart treatment. Your doctor may recommend a more assertive plantar wart treatment for your particular case.

Plantar wart treatments – to be performed only by a doctor – include:

• Plantar Wart Treatment Option #1: Freezing the wart with a very cold solution (cryotherapy), such as sodium nitride, can be an effective plantar wart treatment.
• Plantar Wart Treatment Option #2: Laser treatment to burn out the wart can be an effective plantar wart treatment.
• Plantar Wart Treatment Option #3: Surgery under local anesthetic to get to the root of the wart can be an effective plantar wart treatment.
• Plantar Wart Treatment Option #4: Antibiotics to get rid of consistently reoccurring cases of plantar warts is another plantar wart treatment.

Do you need plantar wart treatment? Remember to check your feet and your children’s feet often, especially in summer, to check for plantar warts. Detection is the first step in successful plantar wart treatment. 

Information on foot and lower body health conditions and treatments – like plantar wart treatment – provided by The Podiatry Institute, dedicated to advancing the standard of care in podiatric medicine and its effects on muscoskeletal health.