Verruca Needling

Verruca Needling: A new treatment from AKS Podiatry Services

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About Verruca

If you have a verruca, it is most likely that you will have caught it from a communal floor such as a swimming pool or changing room but it could just as easily have been at home or on holiday.

The virus that forms a verruca is called the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and it can survive for some time outside the body. It can resist desiccation, freezing, and prolonged storage outside of host cells. To become active, it needs a host cell to infect and it finds this in the upper layers of the skin known as the epidermis, often entering through cuts or abrasions.

When the virus has infected the host cell it reproduces until there are a sufficient number of altered cells for a verruca to become visible to the naked eye.

The only way that a verruca can be successfully treated is if every infected cell is destroyed, and the only way that can be done is through an antibody response. For the same reason we cannot cure the common cold and ‘flu’, we cannot cure verrucae; but the immune system can, given the chance. That is where needling is so useful.

Verruca Needling

As the virus is confined to the epidermis (outer layer of the skin) it is thought that the immune system cannot see it. The way needling works is to push verruca cells from the epidermis through into the dermis and hypodermis or adipose layer (deeper layers of skin) thereby inoculating the underlying tissue. This triggers an immune response; the appropriate antibodies are produced and over the subsequent weeks the verruca undergoes a natural deterioration before ultimately disappearing. 
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