The male partner, therefore, must be checked out for warts before resuming sexual intimacy with her. Of the three treatments mentioned above, laser has the advantage of also being used to zap the external skin lesions. Although many women have only cervical involvement with HPV, still the others with genital warts may want to choose laser for this benefit. This is also an excellent prescription treatment when there are external genital warts, but the cervix is free of HPV involvement by colposcopy. There are other topical applications, including one that beefs up the immune system over the wart, but the Condylox is an extension of the standard agent used for a generation by gynecologists.
Viruses cause warts, whether they be on the hands, elbows, or genital areas.
But the ones involving the genital skin and cervix may be of particularly virulence to cause the pre-cancerous changes of dysplasia. The treatment must be aggressive and persistent. For some reason, only certain areas of the genital tract are stimulated by HPV to cause warty change or dysplasia. Immunology no doubt plays a role. We have not been able to explain, for instance, why just destroying those areas that responded to HPV in these ways generally rids the patient of the risk forever, when we know there is still remaining virus.