Treatment Options

Treatment depends on the number of warts, where they are located and other factors. Your doctor can decide what's right for you. Some treatments must be given in the doctor's office; others you can apply yourself.

Your doctor may use both surgical and nonsurgical treatments.

Surgical treatments include:

  • Removal with an electric needle or simple excision (cutting off the warts)
  • Cryosurgery (freezing off the warts with liquid nitrogen)
  • Laser therapy (using intense light to destroy the warts)

Non-surgical treatments include:

  • Acid applications (bichloroacetic acid or trichloroacetic acid)
  • Interferon (an antiviral drug) injections

Creams or ointments you use at home

  • Podofilox gel or solution
  • Imiquimod cream
  • VEREGEN® (sinecatechins) Ointment

Important Product Safety Information

VEREGEN® Ointment, 15% is a medicine for skin use only (topical) for the treatment of warts on the outside of the genitals and around the outside of the anus. It is not a treatment for warts in the vagina, cervix, or inside the anus. Your doctor may recommend examination and screening tests (such as a Pap smear) to evaluate these areas.

VEREGEN® has not been evaluated to treat urethral, intra-vaginal, cervical, rectal, or intra-anal human papilloma viral disease and should not be used to treat these conditions. Avoid use of VEREGEN® on open wounds. Do not expose skin that has been treated with VEREGEN® to the sun or ultraviolet light because VEREGEN® has not been tested in these conditions. Safety and efficacy of VEREGEN® have not been established in immunosuppressed or pediatric patients, or pregnant women, or for the treatment of external genital and perianal warts beyond 16 weeks or for multiple treatment courses.

The most common adverse reactions that occurred in more than 20% of patients in studies with VEREGEN® were reactions of the skin and application site. These included reddening of the skin, itching, burning, pain or discomfort, skin ulcers, wearing down of the skin, swelling, hard spots, and rash with blisters.

VEREGEN® (sinecatechins) Ointment Full Prescribing Information