Male Genital Warts-the Four Symptoms

2007-11-27 Word Count: 616 Category: Health & Fitness

Genital warts in men are also called penile warts or condyloma because they are found on the penis- usually on the tip of it. Other places where you would find these warts in men are around the anus, on the scrotal sac and sometimes in the urethra. Though the penis wart infection looks very concerning, the virus responsible for genital warts it the same one causing any other skin warts diseases by humans. This is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, which though it is very uncomfortable does not involve any life threatening danger.

Though all caused by human papilloma virus, penis warts can differ significantly, depending on individual's infection.

There are many types of warts, each type formed by a different strain of the virus. Your individual immune system plays the crucial role in determining how bad will warts manifest on your skin. It is near to impossible to find two patients with exactly the same clinical picture of genital warts as individual biological and sociological backgrounds heavily influence the process of warts evolving from small, hardly recognizable dots to big cauliflower like forms. Timely recognizing the seriousness of the genitle wart infection can preserve you from having to suffer substantial pain by late medical interventions on your genitals.

Some of the symptoms that accompany penis warts.

The warts appear on the tip of the penis and while initially they are small and unobtrusive, they would gradually grow in size and number. The world wide web is here to help you find pictures of genital warts which can be extremely useful if you have any doubts about the changes taking place in the area of your genitals.

Once you have an idea about how the penis warts look like, you could also check about the presence of the following symptoms:

1. Itchiness- the place where the penile wart has appeared and its surrounding becomes very itchy.

The first really annoying symptom of itchiness is being accompanied with more and more repetitions of scratching which consequently makes penis warts even more itchy and irritated.

2. Humidity is the next symptom that you should consider as one of the accompanying signs for genital warts- the area where warts appear is unusually wet or humid.

No matter how much you try to keep the skin dry, the dampness would be there. In order to grow faster and spread easier, penis warts are ensuring themselves right amount of damp to ease their victorious siege over healthy skin tissue.

3. Sharp, burn-like pain- partly caused by repeatedly scratching the itchy parts and partly by warts seeding themselves even deeper into the tissue.

Sometimes, the burning sensation would be more pronounced during urination and/ or while passing stools. The virus spreading to other parts of the body and proceeding towards the inner organs should be taken seriously and getting immediate medical attention is the best thing to do.

4. Explosion of wars- HPV virus is infection which firstly seems to be taking its time to show those first symptoms, but then suddenly explodes, seeding new warts daily and the existing ones seem to be growing into disgustful forms with unimaginable speed.

Penis warts usually tend to group themselves into bigger forms, taking shapes of truly grotesque nature. If you find that you suffer from any one or more of the above symptoms, you need to visit a doctor as soon as you can.

The key to contain this virus (HPV) is early diagnosis and treatment. Do not forget on proper nutrition which is the other part of the treatment, an absolutely essential if you do not want penis warts surfacing a week after seemingly eliminating them.

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