How Does a Plantar Wart Form?
The Virus Planter warts are caused when the HPV enters the foot or one of the toes. HPV stands for human papillomavirus. The virus has many types and the ones that cause a planter wart are 1, 2, 4, and 63. The virus can live for up to 20 months in a warm moist area. That means an infected person can walk across a locker room floor and leave the virus on the floor. Another individual can walk across the floor a year later and catch the virus. A person can only contract the virus if he has a cut or a small scrape for the virus to enter. The most common places to contract the human papillomavirus are spas, indoor swimming pools, saunas and locker rooms. Formation Once the virus enters a cut or scrape on the foot it can lay inactive for a few months. Once it starts to form it will look like a piece of cauliflower. You will be able to see some small black capillaries underneath of the wart. When the wart is young you may continue to walk on it without noticing it. This puts pressure on the
