Know The Type Of Genital warts You Have!

Do you have pain or itchiness around the genital area? Then suspect this with genital wart symptom.

Genital warts can also be called as venereal warts or condylomata acuminate and they affect the moist tissue around the genital area.

Warts appear like small, flesh-colored bumps or have a cauliflower like appearance.

They can grow as small bumps or into large clusters. Usually, they transmit by direct skin-to-skin contact during oral, genital or anal sex with an infected person.

More than 30 HPV strains are responsible for the formation of genital warts. Half of sexually active women are infected with HPV at some point in their life.

Usually, genital warts won’t cause any symptoms to appear. In some cases, you will develop small, hard bumps within 3-12 weeks after exposure. Symptoms are different from one person to another and sometimes they can be mistaken for other medical conditions.

Most common genital wart symptoms that you notice will be soft, moist pink, flesh colored warts or gray swelling around the genital area. The bumps can be flat or raise, single or group, small or large warts. In some rare cases, you can experience pain in the genital area and some bleeding during or after having sex.

Generally, warts are painless. You will only experience pain when they are bumped or irritated. Sometimes, there is bleeding from warts. In contrast, plantar warts are very painful when you put pressure on them while walking.

Warts can also develop on your vagina, vulva, cervix, urethra, and around the anus where you will notice increased vaginal discharge, abnormal vaginal bleeding, itching around your vagina, urethra, cervix, vulva, and anus.

Most of the genital warts won’t pose any significant health risks. If the warts left untreated, you will notice some serious health conditions. For example, untreated genital warts can lead to anal and cervical cancer.

Genital warts spread easily and are very contagious. If you have an active outbreak of genital warts, it is best to refrain from all types of sexual contact until the warts completely disappear.

To prevent genital warts from occurring:

• Avoid unprotected sex with multiple partners.


• Avoid having sex with a partner whose sexual history is unknown to you.
  

For treating genital warts, your doctor can suggest any of the following procedures:

Cryotherapy – Destroying warts by using liquid nitrogen.

LEEP – Loop electrosurgical excision procedure, in which a sharp instrument shaped device like a loop is passed underneath the wart to cut it out from the skin.

Laser treatment – Physically destroy the lesions.

Electric current – Current is passed to physically destroy the lesions.