Review of Removing a Wart from My 4‑Year‑Old’s Toe

One day after giving my child a bath, I was looking at their feet and noticed something dark at the tip of a toe.

At first it looked like a corn on the tip of the toe, so when I touched it, they said it hurt.

So I looked more closely and saw weird little spots embedded there.

I initially thought a thorn had gone in and caused a corn, but there were more than just one or two thorn-like things.

My gut feeling was that this must be a wart.

After searching around here and there, I found some images.

The black-looking dots are actually capillaries that the wart pulls in as it grows from the skin.

This is called petechial hemorrhage.

According to my wife, she had found a small one a few weeks ago, but thought it was nothing and left it alone.

By the time I discovered it, it had gotten much bigger than it was back then.

I drew the wart’s growth process using Nanobanana.

It can occur when your immune system is weakened or when an external virus invades.

Once you’ve found it, you should treat it right away without delay.

1. Visit to the pediatrician

We first went to a pediatric clinic.

But after the doctor took a look, they said we needed to go to a dermatologist.

So we headed over to a dermatology clinic.

2. Visit to the dermatologist

The dermatologist examined the child’s foot and diagnosed it as a wart.

They said the treatment options for warts are medication, laser therapy, and cryotherapy.

Topical medication is hard to prescribe for kids, and laser treatment would require anesthesia because of the pain.

The only remaining option for us was cryotherapy.

Cryotherapy is freezing the area around the wart using liquid nitrogen.

The frozen skin is later pushed out as new skin grows from underneath.

People say it hurts a lot, but fortunately our child didn’t cry and held up really well.

The doctor told us to come back in two weeks.

We were also prescribed a topical medication.

They told us to apply it every night before bed.

It must not have hurt much, because that very day the child was running around everywhere.

We went to an aquarium café, fed the fish, and they ran around a lot.

2. Progress after cryotherapy

1) Week 1

The area around where the cryotherapy was done became very hard.

This is the process of the cooled area turning into callused skin.

Most likely, new skin is growing underneath.

2) Week 2

Compared to last week, the callused skin has protruded quite a bit more.

Looking closely, the areas where there had been petechial hemorrhages are the parts that are sticking out.

It seemed like the virus-invaded tissue was being pushed out.

3) Week 3

The petechial tissue is still remaining.

Since the area that underwent cryotherapy had not completely fallen off yet, it didn’t feel like the right time to visit the hospital again.

Fortunately, the area didn’t grow larger and there were no major changes.

4) Week 4

It still feels like the callused skin is in the process of coming up.

It seems we’ll need to keep an eye on it for about two more weeks.