Brief Overview Imiquimod (also known as its brand name Aldara) is used as a 5% cream for the topical treatment of Genital Warts. Results have shown that Imiquimod helps to get rid of warts in about half the people who use it for four months. But one study found it didn’t help people who had …
Your doctor can freeze off your warts using liquid nitrogen in a treatment called cryotherapy. You can have this treatment every one to three weeks depending on how quickly the area heals after each treatment and what happens to your warts. Two RCTs found that cryotherapy worked about as well as treatment with acid. After …
Overview During electrosurgery, doctors use an electrical current to heat up your genital warts to get rid of them. It is also called diathermy or a loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP). One study found that, after six months, warts had cleared up in 8 in 10 people who had electrosurgery. It isn’t clear whether electrosurgery …
