How do you get plantar warts

Having plantar warts on your feet can be a very irritating experience. Knowing what cause the warts to appear at the first place can help you to take preventive measures and be more caution. That why it is best for you to know how do you get plantar warts.

Plantar warts occur when you are having a direct contact with HPV virus (Human Papilloma Virus). You might know this virus as the type of virus can cause cervical cancer. However, there are actually one hundred type of HPV viruses and the HPV virus that cause plantar warts aren't the one that can cause cancer.

Plantar warts usually appear when the virus are getting into your blood stream trough the breaking in your skin. Most of the time, this virus will be killed by your antibodies but as usual, some time our antibodies fail to kill the virus and that how the warts begin.

The virus can cause your skin cell to growth at more faster rate which create a thick growth of skin on your foot, this is how plantar warts appear. This process will take about one to 20 months to complete and that make it harder to guess when did it first start and where did you get the virus from.

Since HPV virus are known to be flourishing around warm and moisturize environment, there are a lot of places where you could be getting the virus from such as bathroom floor, pool and even locker room. After the warts had been developed, it can spread to other area of your foot simply by touch.

You can prevent plantar warts by knowing how do you get plantar warts at the first places. Despite the fact that it is hard to determine where did you get the virus from, you can still reduce your chances of having plantar warts by being caution when you're about to enter the environment where the HPV virus are known to be thrives.

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