This treatment can usually be completed in a single office visit, but healing takes longer and secondary bacterial infections and scarring are more common. Warts have a rough surface and clearly defined borders. They are usually the same color as the child's skin but sometimes are darker. Warts are painless and don't itch your child. The virus stimulates some cells to grow more rapidly than normal.
Warts are very common in children.
To keep from spreading warts, urge your child not to scratch them. Warts spread readily to small cuts and scratches. Medical history and physical exam by a doctor. Secondary infection of a wart. Without treatment, it may take 2 or 3 years for the remainder to disappear in most children.