What is genital warts Cryotherapy?
Genital warts Cryotherapy is a method of freezing genital warts and the goal is to freeze and destroy such genital warts while protecting the surrounding skin from injury. What is the preparation for genital warts Cryotherapy? The area to be treated needs to be clean and dry but sterile preparation is not necessary. There will be some pain but whether a local anesthetic is used will depend on the patient. Sometimes the health professional will want to reduce the size of the genital warts before the Cryotherapy in which case he will prescribe or apply a preparation to the genital warts for some weeks beforehand. What are the different techniques for freezing genital warts? There are three different techniques to performing cryotherapy and usually only the first and simplest technique is needed to freeze genital warts. The health professional will dip a cotton swab or other applicator into a vessel containing a “cryogen” such as liquid nitrogen and apply it directly to the skin growth to
