Foot Surgery Little Chalfont | Getting Rid Of Verrucas | Foot Care

1. Foot Surgery Little Chalfont | Getting Rid Of Verrucas | Foot Care Verrucae are a type of wart that develops and affects the bottom of your feet. Bucks Foot Clinic has the correct tools to get rid of verrucas. We offer best foot care service including foot surgery in Amersham, Chesham, Little Chalfont and surrounding areas

2. These are often confused with corns. Corns are thick skin on your feet that are painful when you walk. Verrucae and Warts are viral infections that cause think skins, and these hurt when you walk. Warts can and do spread around the body and they can be passed onto other people. This means that you can infect other people in the family, or can be infected by them. It is normal to get them when you share changing rooms or shower facilities (like swimming pools, or gyms) with other people

3. Top 10 ways to prevent Verrucas/Warts • Always avoid direct contact with warts, this includes your own warts, always remember to wash your hands after touching the warts / verruca. • Keep your feet clean and dry, change your socks shoes regularly. • Avoid walking barefoot around swimming pools locker rooms and gym’s • Do not pick, scratch warts. They are viral infections and can spread easily • Do not use the same emery board, pumice stone, or nail clippers that you would use on healthy skin.

4. Do not share nail clippers, pumice stones or emery boards with other people. You can pass the infection to them or get it from them. • Boil / wash you socks and bedsheets to prevent passing the virus to other people • Wear a pair of verrucae socks or use a use a transparent verrucae spray which can stop you getting re-infected. • Do not share socks or shoes with other people • Wear flip-flops or wet shoes in communal areas. This prevents the infection of your feet. Keep a pair of flip-flops or wet shoes when you go to the pools or to the changing room shower.

5. Treatments • Over the counter medicines rarely work. They are not as strong as the medicines given by us, as your podiatrists. We can make sure that we fit the right treatment to your verruca. • The longer it is left, the harder it is to remove, and more invasive methods are needed to aggressively attack the verruca infection.

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