Methods to get rid of plantar warts:

Salicylic acid. Using salicylic acid, a plantar wart treatment that you can purchase over-the-counter from your local drug store, you can remove a plantar wart in generally about four weeks. The process calls for daily application of acid to the wart, as well as rubbing of the dead skin from the wart. Acid can be applied either as a solution or as a patch, and sometimes you must apply it twice a day. You can use a nail file or pumice stone to remove the dead skin from the plantar wart each day. It's kind of pleasing that such an old medicinal substance should still be recognized as an excellent treatment; salicylic acid was known by the ancient world to exist within willow bark. Just try not to let any of it get onto clear skin, where it will cause irritation.

Cryotherapy. It sounds like what they did to Ted Williams, and does involve freezing. In this case, doctors use liquid nitrogen to "freeze" your wart. They apply the liquid nitrogen directly onto the plantar wart using a spray-tip or cotton-tip applicator. If you've never experienced cryotherapy before, you might be struck by the sci-fi image of unearthly vapors rising from the nitrogen tank. For children, this method can be too painful and scary, and at any rate, it guarantees neither more nor less success than duct tape or acid treatments. If successful, however, you'll get rid of that plantar wart faster.

Other natural remedies. You can learn a number of natural remedies for plantar warts, moles and skin tags in the excellent e-book Moles, Warts and Skin Tag Removal - this program is highly recommended, safe and fast!

Duct tape. Duct tape wart removal has more in common with acid treatment than with cryotherapy. Apply the tape to your wart and leave it there for six days, after which you can wash the affected area and, once dry, rub off the dead wart skin with either that nail file or pumice stone once again. The duct tape method generally takes around six weeks, but may take up to eight before you remove the plantar wart. For more information, check out our article about how to remove warts with duct tape.

More severe responses. You can also pursue laser surgical removal of your plantar warts, though this procedure is more expensive and, in many cases, more painful. Another surgical option, electrodessication, is quite effective but leaves a noticeable scar on your foot. Non surgical options include the use of prescription anti-wart medication (officially for use against genital warts, but effective in treating plantar warts as well) or immunotherapy, wherein doctors inject antigens directly into the wart in an attempt to trigger the natural response of your immune system against the wart itself.

During my High School days, I was having problems with warts, that it was growing in multiple numbers in my hands. It caused me to be ashamed with my classmates showing my hands to them since there were lots of warts that is growing. It reached the point where I would not shake hands with my friends and classmates.

I have tried a lot of applications that purportedly and claim to treat warts but to no avail, my warts kept growing in the same number. And then the turning point happened, as I was reading the Philippine Daily Inquirer, I happen to read on it's health section that discusses the issue on the best way to remove warts and it's only advice is to apply salicylic acid regularly to the affected area with the use of cotton buds.

Right there and then, I bought a salicylic acid and cotton buds and applied it regularly, then the best thing happened, the warts slowly vanishes and it never came back. It was quite a relief that it eventually disappeared, I truly regained my self esteem.