Plantar Wart

Plantar warts are when you come in contact with the HPV virus through tiny cuts, cracks, or soft spots on your skin. However NOT everyone exposed to HPV develops warts it depends on multiple things like your immune system, Microtrauma, and how thick or moist your skin is. They often grown inward from pressure when walking, making them feel like a painful pebble under your foot.

Common places you can get a Plantars Wart.

• Locker room, gym showers, pool decks, or publinc changing areas.
• Barefoot activities like yoga, martial arts, or swimming.
• Shared surfaces wehre others with wats have walked can spreak the virus. 
• Sharing socks, shoes or towles.

Typical signs

• Small, rough bump on the bottom of your foot — often on the heel or ball.

• Black dots in the center — these are tiny clotted blood vessels (“wart seeds”).

• Pain when you walk or press on it, like stepping on a pebble.

• Interrupts your skin lines: unlike calluses, warts distort the natural skin ridges.

• Grows inward, not outward, because of pressure when walking.

Though the treatment your removing a plantar wart is not difficult if you think you may have a wart it is best that you contact your primary care doctor or podiatrist. Until you are able to be seen you should avoid spreading. You should not pick or scratch. Wear flip flops in a communal shower, or share socks and towles.