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Internal anal warts are harder to treat than external warts because it is found inside the anal canal surrounded by the sensitive mucous membranes. Internal anal warts can affect the mucous membranes of the anus that protects the inside of the anus that secretes mucus to keep them moist. Internal anal warts or intra-anal warts are present primarily in people who usually engaged in anal intercourse. Internal anal warts are common in gay sexual relationships and could be transmitted to other parts of the body from direct skin-to-skin contact with the infected person.
Internal anal warts will cause a great deal of discomfort to patients and the symptoms include pain, bleeding, and or pain during anal intercourse. Internal anal warts can be manifested with cauliflower-like lesions. If the person has internal anal warts there is difficulty and pain passing the bowel movements. Unlike external wart, there is a specific treatment suited only for the internal anal warts.
Diagnostics of internal anal warts can be done through anoscopy. By having anoscopy, you'll know the severity of the warts in your anus to find out whether you have an early signs of a rare disease called anal cancer. For women who have regular Pap test, it may give information but in a limited basis. However Pap smear test is more of a screening tool to find out if you still need another diagnostics through anoscopy.
There are many approaches on treating internal anal warts and your health care provider can offer you different choices. One of the standard approaches is by cryotherapy or freezing the anal warts with liquid nitrogen. Other methods include laser therapy, surgery and electrocauthery. If you undergo any of these treatments, there is still a need follow-up the anoscopic test every 6 months as needed.
Large internal anal warts pose a challenge when being treated. You would need surgical removal and after all these treatments there is no guarantee that internal anal warts will not come back. With all these available treatments for internal anal warts recurrence rates are still high. There is no perfect cure for warts and one treatment may work for others but not for all.
Like other viral disease internal anal warts can recur. However by prevention the incidence of recurrence is reduced or eliminated. In order to do this, people should be take care of their health and sexual lifestyles. Boosting your immune system is the key to avoid re infection. Eating the right food, exercise and stress avoidance will keep your immune system in its highest level of function to fight any viral attaché of hpv.