Some researchers such as the U.S. deparment of Health and Human Services, estimates that the spread of genital warts disease has doubled in the last two decades – more than 3 million new cases of infection diagnosed per year in the United States. The main target of this disease are young people who are sexually active in their teens and twenties. The main danger, according to the experts today believe, are some types of HPV that plays an important role in the development of certain types of cancer, particularly cervical cancer.

SYMPTOMS
Genital warts also called venereal warts (warts are transmitted through sexual contact), known by doctors as condylomata acuminata (the spiky protrusions). But actually, all of this name is a misnomer, because very often there are no warts (or other tangible evidence) which shows that you are infected. In a study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, nearly half of women infected with HPV do not experience symptoms that are visible at all.

Meanwhile, other researchers assume that there is no evidence that can be seen (at least not be seen with the naked eye) in approximately 90% of existing cases. In most cases, evidence of HPV infection can only be seen through the microscope that the warts are located in places hidden from view (as in the upper vagina, inside the rectum or cervix).

In a man who infected but can not find any genital warts, they may appear above or around the head of the penis or (in men who are not circumcised) beneath the outer skin. The warts may also appear on the shaft of the penis, on the scrotum, in the urethra (which often makes a painful discharge of urine) or around the anus. In women, warts usually appear on the lips of the vagina, inside the vagina, around the anus or on the cervix. Sometimes warts it may even appear in the mouth of someone who has oral sex with an infected partner.

Genital warts can be very varied forms. Sometimes they do not stand out at all, but looks like small lumps or hard spots and flat. Or sometimes they are a prominent warts, contains dense, pink or whitish and develop very quickly. If the warts left it inflates like a cauliflower or there are so many warts close together that looked like a carpet or a mosaic made of warts.

HPV CHRONIC
One thing to remember about HPV infection, is that this infection is highly contagious. Even if you do not get signs of eye infection that can be seen, you may inadvertently transmit the virus to your partner. In fact, HPV is so easily transmitted, so the researchers estimate that approximately 70% of their sexual partners are infected with HPV also infected.

That’s why if you are diagnosed with this disease you should take your partner to the clinic to get treatment too, or at least to tell your partner that you are infected. Because the incubation period may vary, ranging from several weeks to several years, maybe it’s sometimes hard to know where that sexual partners are infected by HPV infection.

If we face the fact that mere warts does not appear, HPV may be easier to ignore. But researchers today have learned that HPV infection is also strongly associated with changes in pre-cancerous cervix, vulva, penis, and anus. Many genital cancers are now believed to evolve through a very gradual process before it actually becomes malignant tumors. And certain tendencies of HPV, in certain circumstances, may be able to transform a benign warts become pre-cancerous growth known as dysplasia.

In women, the cervix is ​​the most sensitive of the most often chosen by these pre-cancerous dysplasia. In fact, according to Dr. Gordon, HPV is an abnormality in the cervix are most often found on a Pap test.

That is why women who are sexually active (in fact, all women) have to do a Pap test regularly to monitor the health of cervical cells. However, one thing to remember: Since the Pap test only detects abnormal cell growth, and not the HPV infection itself. Some doctors recommend to perform an additional test at the time you do a Pap test.

Virapap test (test virus in the vagina), which was recently approved its application by the Food and Drug Administration, is a more accurate screening test, because it can detect five tendency of HPV is closely associated with cervical cancer. If you are sexually active or have reason to feel worried about genital warts, ask your doctor to perform this test within yourself.

TREATMENT
Basic treatment of genital warts is to destroy the warts as well as infected tissue down to the roots. Small warts can be removed by freezing it with liquid nitrogen or gaseous nitrogen oxides (kritoterapi), burn (electrocauter), or vaporizing with a laser. But unfortunately, although the surrounding tissues have been removed, often at less than 20% of the cases there are no warts are back again because the HPV virus has to penetrate the skin so it looks like a normal and healthy. That is one characteristic of genital warts. These viruses often come-off.

Sometimes a warm ointment can remove warts if the user directly to the skin is required. The drugs most commonly used is a solution containing podophyllin, a toxic substance that is squeezed from the stalks rhizome of a plant that grows in the Himalayas. The solution obtained from the juice of it applied to the warts once or twice a week for approximately one month or until the warts were completely gone.

However, podophyllin is a very hard material, and can only be applied by a doctor. The drug is also not recommended for pregnant women because these drugs can be absorbed into the body and damage the fetus. The drug is also not very successful.

In one study, he can only destroy warts by 40% of existing cases. Other drugs, solutions are not so hard (such as trichloroacetic acid) can be written in the recipe for home use. For infections that are very stubborn, a relatively new treatment is interferon (a natural substance that can kill certain viruses such as HPV) is given either by being swallowed or by injection.

PREVENTION
There are a few things to remember to protect themselves from infection of genital warts. Some researchers say there is no convincing evidence that using condoms could be useful to protect themselves against transmission of genital warts.

Several other researchers say that condoms do provide some protection, although this may not be perfect. However, the most effective of all is to distance themselves from sex outside of marriage.

If you have warts or boils, or any form of injury on or around the genital-genital, do not hesitate to check with your doctor. If you are infected, especially HPV, the initial check-up and get treatment, the greater the chance for cure.