Symptoms: Skin or mucosal lesions. Certain types of the virus have the ability to cause warts and other types have the ability to cause cervical, vaginal, genital and anal cancers.
Diagnosis and treatment: If you have any of the following, see your doctor:
- If your partner(s) have told you they have HPV or genital warts;
- If you have itching and bleeding in the genital area;
- If you feel abnormal bumps in the genital area and around the anus.
Warts are usually diagnosed by a physician on the basis of the lesion.
There is no specific oral medicine for treating warts, the virus cannot be eliminated.
There is a good vaccine for HPV. This vaccine is very effective for cancerous virus types. The vaccine age for boys is 13 to 21 years, but the vaccine can be injected from 9 years to 26 years. The vaccine is injected as three separate doses. The second dose is administered one to two months after the first dose, and the third dose six months after the first dose.