Is There a Vitamin to Help Get Rid of Warts?

Found easily in food and supplements, vitamins may be the answer to healing and preventing your unsightly, troublesome warts. Vitamins A, C and E all work to treat warts. You might also find help from a few other basic home remedies. If vitamins don't relieve your symptoms you should contact your doctor.

Vitamins to Get Rid of Warts

Fight your warts with vitamin A. There's evidence that vitamin A helps build your immune system and fights warts, as the author of the book "Doctors' Book of Home Remedies for Women" found. Look for vitamin A in sweet peas, carrots, leafy green vegetables and squash. If you don't get enough vitamin A from your diet alone, Herbs 2000, an online resource for alternative therapies, recommends taking 25,000 IU of vitamin A twice daily for 10 days. If you're pregnant don't take more than 5,000 IU daily.

Vitamin C will also helps support your immune system. Vitamin C helps prevent future recurrences of warts. Take 1,000 mg of vitamin C three times a day. In addition to taking vitamin C orally, you also can apply it topically. Mix powdered vitamin C with water and spread it over your warts. If your warts are located on your genitals, make sure to dilute the vitamin C powder thoroughly, as these warts are particularly sensitive.

Applying vitamin E topically also will help heal the affected area. Create a compress out of a piece of flannel, cotton or gauze and pour the contents of a vitamin E capsule onto the compress. Apply it to the affected area.

After bathing, make sure to thoroughly dry your wart--as warts thrive in moist environments--and keeping it dry will reduce its chance of spreading. You also might find aloe vera gel soothing. To apply aloe vera gel, dab a small amount on a compress and apply it to the affected area. In addition to aloe vera gel, you also could try adding a few drops of tea tree oil to a compress. Tea tree oil has antiviral and antibacterial properties.

When to Call Your Doctor

See your doctor if after two months of at-home treatments your warts don't go away. Your doctor may opt to apply liquid nitrogen or even a laser to remove stubborn warts. Also, women who shave their legs may benefit from getting a wart removed by a doctor, as shaving can spread the wart virus to other parts of their legs. If you develop a wart on your face see your dermatologist, as facial tissue is too delicate for at-home remedies.