Quantcast This image displays multiple skin-colored, barely raised lesions typical of flat warts. This image displays numerous flat warts on the forehead. Flat warts can be widely scattered across the face. This child has small, skin-colored flat warts at the cheek below the eye and on the nose.
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Flat Wart:
A parent's guide for infants and babies

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Picture of Flat Wart: This image displays multiple skin-colored, barely raised lesions typical of flat warts. Divider line
This image displays multiple skin-colored, barely raised lesions typical of flat warts.
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Treatments Your Physician May Prescribe
Once your child has been diagnosed with flat warts, the physician may recommend one or more of the following treatments:
  • Freezing with liquid nitrogen (cryosurgery)
  • Burning with an electric needle (electrocautery)
  • Using a laser to disrupt the blood supply of the warts
  • Application of cantharidin, podophyllin, or salicylic acid applied in the office
  • Application of tretinoin at home
  • Injection with bleomycin, a chemotherapy drug, directly into the warts
  • Application of imiquimod, a cream that induces the immune system to destroy the wart
Last Modified: 3 Mar 2008

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