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Compound In Breast Milk Treats Warts

BBC News:

A cream containing an ingredient of human breast milk appears to be an effective treatment for warts.

The preparation, nicknamed Hamlet by is Swedish creators, has been shown to dramatically reduce, and often completely banish, stubborn warts.

It contains an ingredient that collects in the core of wart cells, and triggers them to self-destruct.

Details of a trial using the cream are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Common warts, which usually appear on the hands and feet, are caused by infection of the epidermal layer of the skin with human papillomavirus (HPV).

They can be resistant to treatment with creams, but freezing is often an effective way to deal with them.

However, the researchers, from Lund University, hope their findings may eventually provide the basis not just for a treatment for common warts, but for more serious conditions too.

The same class of viruses that cause warts are also responsible for cervical cancer, genital warts, and some types of skin cancer.

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