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

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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
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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
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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 gyms
• 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.

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• 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.

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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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