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Lack of confidence
If you feel that your warts look unattractive, it may affect your confidence and self-esteem, particularly if they cover a large area of your body.
Complications relating to treatment
Common complications after treatment include:
- pain, and
- irritated skin around the wart.
Rarely, treatment for warts can cause scarring and infection.
It can be very difficult to treat warts in people with weak immune systems (for example, people with an illness such as AIDS or people who have had an organ transplant or treatment for cancer). In some cases, it may not be possible to clear the warts, even with treatment.
Malignant change
Warts are usually harmless in people whose immune systems are working properly, and it is rare for any malignant change in a wart to develop.
However, in people whose immune systems are weak (see above), there is a higher risk of a wart becoming malignant.
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