This image displays common warts on the face, most likely from transferring the wart virus from the child's fingers. Warts often have a rough, multi-pointed surface, like this wart near the eye. This image displays the thick and rough surface typical of a wart. This image displays the "black dots" typical of warts, which are clotted, fine blood vessels in the skin. Warts can have a thick scale, which sometime become loose, as in this infant. This image displays multiple warts on the lips.
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Common Wart  A parent's guide for infants and babies

Picture of Common Wart: This image displays common warts on the face, most likely from transferring the wart virus from the child's fingers. Divider line
This image displays common warts on the face, most likely from transferring the wart virus from the child's fingers.
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Signs and Symptoms
Warts may occur singly or in multiples and often have multiple small black "dots" at the surface from tiny blood vessels.
  • Common warts are rough, thick, and either skin-colored, pink, or white bumps from 1 mm to over 10 mm in size.
  • Filiform warts are long and narrow, like tufts of thread, and usually small at the base (1–3 mm).
Infection can be described as:
  • Mild – Just one or few painless lesions
  • Moderate – 10-20 lesions, which are painless
  • Severe – Over 20 lesions, pain that limits normal life activities, or bleeding
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Last Modified: 22 Dec 2008
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