Facial and Oral Cross-Contamination of a 3-Year-Old Child With High Concentration Capsaicin: A Case Report.


Journal

A&A practice
ISSN: 2575-3126
Titre abrégé: A A Pract
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101714112

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jul 2020
Historique:
entrez: 8 7 2020
pubmed: 8 7 2020
medline: 29 7 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

High-concentration topical capsaicin is used to treat different neuropathic pain states. We present a case in which a 3-year-old child orally ingested capsaicin after touching her mother's arm that had been treated with a high-concentration capsaicin patch 3 hours earlier. The child suffered extreme pain and swelling of the lips and tongue. After the use of cleansing gel, external cooling, and drinking milk, the pain lessened over half an hour and subsided after 2 hours. This report aims to raise awareness for this formerly unreported mode of oral contamination.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32633926
doi: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000001258
pii: 02054229-202007000-00005
doi:

Substances chimiques

Capsaicin S07O44R1ZM

Types de publication

Case Reports Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e01258

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Auteurs

Christoph L Lassen (CL)

From the Center for Interdisciplinary Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

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