About Gential Warts

If you are experiencing any of the symptoms of gential warts, a doctor needs to be consulted to properly confirm the condition of gential warts. Gential warts are caused by the human papillomavirus and are very contagious. You can contract gential warts by having sex or sexual contact with an infected person.  Even if a person has no gential warts visible, they still carry the virus and can transmit it to an unsuspecting person.  Although you can get gential warts through the act of sex, you can also become infected by anal and oral sex.  It is also possible by just having skin-to-skin contact to transmit the virus.  Condoms may help prevent the transmission of gential warts; there may be warts present where a condom is not. For this reason it is important to abstain from sex if at all possible if you are a carrier of gential warts.  It is important to be upfront and honest in all relationships that may become sexual, so you do not transmit the virus to a partner. 

Gential warts vary in size and can present in clusters.  They resemble a normal wart you would get anywhere on your body and are usually soft and pliable. Gential warts in women appear on the labia and surrounding area and can also be present on the cervix. They can also be inside the vagina and around the anus.  The most common place to find gential warts in men is on the tip of the penis.  They can also be present on other areas on the penis, the scrotum and around the anus.  It is rare to find gential warts on other areas of the body, but this can occur.  Some people have no symptoms at all, but they are still at risk for transmitting the sexually transmitted disease to another person.  Cervical cancer in women has been linked to the presence of gential warts and there is now a vaccination on the market to help prevent catching gential warts to prevent the complications of cervical cancer. 

Diagnosing gential warts is a fairly simple procedure; your doctor usually just has to look at them to know if warts are present.  A doctor should examine you to rule out other conditions such as gential herpes .  A doctor may also take cells from the wart and do a laboratory test to diagnose gential warts.  In a female, your doctor should also examine the cervix for the presence of warts as this poses the most potential for future complications. 

There are several ways to treat gential warts.  Some warts may go away on their own, but it is often an unpredictable course and you never know if the wart is going to shrink or grow.  Your doctor has several options available for removing warts.  There are topical creams you can apply to the wart to help shrink and remove it.  Other options are to freeze the wart, to burn the wart, or even laser surgery to remove a wart. Size and location is the determining factor in treating gential warts.  Your doctor will know what treatment is best for you and your unique situation.  If you suspect you could have gential warts, it is important to get a proper diagnosis from a licensed physician so you can plan your course of treatment and learn how to deal with a lifelong condition.