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The bottom line is that they are more of an embarrassment - a social problem - than a medical problem.
Some individuals simply put up with them and others cannot abide them and have to have them removed instantly, if not sooner.
The fact is that warts are non-malignant growths.
Non-malignant cancers, if you like, but the operative word is 'non-malignant' which means 'harmless'.
If you would like to remove any warts that you have, it is not difficult.
Perhaps, it is easier to see warts as flowers or rather weeds growing on your skin.
You can kill them.
There are a number of methods of doing this 'weed killing'.
You can go to a doctor or a dermatologist.
This is a sure-fire means of getting rid them, but depending on where you live can become costly.
Or you can try doing it yourself first.
After all, if you do not succeed, it will not have cost you much and you can then go to a doctor later.
One of the easiest ways that I have found is the use of Salicylic acid.
It sounds terribly dangerous and painful, but I can assure you that it is not.
Salicylic acid is an ingredient of many shop-bought home remedies for getting rid of warts.
Simply check on the labels of wart removal products.
A couple of minutes after applying salisylic acid, the top of the wart will turn white.
After a couple of days of application, the wart will look like an open cauliflower and it will reveal itself as the weed that it is.
(Not really, of course).
Soon thereafter, it will begin to break away - literally to fall off, piece by piece - and there will be no scar at all.
I had loads of warts as a child.
Mostly on my fingers alongside my finger nails and although my mother wanted to take me to the doctor to have them 'burned' off by frost, I did not like the idea.
Salicylic acid was suggested by a neighbour and there was no looking back.
However, as a foot note, I want to add one more home remedy.
A few years after the trauma of having loads of warts on my hands as an infant schoolboy, I grew a wart on the tip of my nose.
Needless to say, my classmates found that hilarious and some of them tried to make my life a misery.
An Aunty of mine, Aunty Lil, came to the house one day to 'get rid of this problem once and for all'.
She took a piece of beef steak out of her bag - it was around two ounces in weight - and she rubbed it on my nose, or on the wart on my nose anyway and then she went out into the garden.
My mother and I watched her through the widow.
She carefully dug a shallow hole and laid the steak in it.
Then she covered it over, tramped it down and returned inside.
'When the meat has rotted,' she said, 'your wart will fall off'.
Five or six days later, my wart came off while I was washing and it has never reappeared - not in fifty years.
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