Licking as an out-of-hospital burns treatment-An isolated cultural phenomenon?
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Department of Plastic Surgery, Our Ladys Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin,, Dublin 12, Ireland. Deirdre.seoighe@gmail.comIssue Date
2012-02-01T10:25:28ZMeSH
Acyclovir/therapeutic useAntiviral Agents/therapeutic use
Burns/complications/*therapy
Child
*Cultural Characteristics
Female
Herpesviridae Infections/drug therapy/etiology
Humans
Infant
IrelandMalePatient Acceptance of Health Care*SalivaSelf Care/adverse effects/*methodsSkin Transplantation
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Burns. 2011 Mar;37(2):348-50. Epub 2010 Nov 11.Journal
Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn InjuriesDOI
10.1016/j.burns.2010.08.008PubMed ID
21074331Abstract
Wound management in burns is a potentially complex issue. Salivary constituents have been shown experimentally to be of benefit in the treatment of thermal injuries. In our clinical experience we have encountered patients who have saliva directly applied to the burn wound prior to presenting to the national burns service. The practice is known as "Licking". We report two cases to illustrate the presentations we have encountered. We believe that these illustrate an isolated phenomenon unique to the Republic of Ireland.Language
engISSN
1879-1409 (Electronic)0305-4179 (Linking)