Plantar wart primary prevention

Overview
Although immunization is available for the HPV and strains causing cervical cancer and venereal warts, there is currently no vaccination treatment for plantar warts.

Prevention

 * Avoid walking barefoot in public areas such as showers, communal changing rooms. (Covering with an adhesive bandage is not a safe method as it will not last for long at all, especially while showering or swimming)
 * Change shoes and socks daily.
 * Avoid sharing shoes and socks.
 * Avoid direct contact with warts on other parts of body.
 * Avoid direct contact with warts on other persons.