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Ocular chemical burn associated with gel type alcohol-based hand sanitizer: A case report

INTRODUCTION: Alcohol-based hand sanitizers (ABHS) are widely used for hand hygiene due to the coronavirus disease pandemic. However, risk awareness regarding its adverse effects is lacking. We aim to report a case of ocular chemical burn that showed severe clinical presentation associated with ABHS...

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Autores principales: Lee, Jaekyoung, Jun, Jong Hwa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8542124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34678862
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000027292
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description INTRODUCTION: Alcohol-based hand sanitizers (ABHS) are widely used for hand hygiene due to the coronavirus disease pandemic. However, risk awareness regarding its adverse effects is lacking. We aim to report a case of ocular chemical burn that showed severe clinical presentation associated with ABHS. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 5-year-old girl presented with severe left eye pain after 62% gel-type ABHS splashed into her eye. DIAGNOSIS: On slit lamp examination, a near total corneal and conjunctival epithelial defect with limbal pale on the lower half of the cornea was noted. Severe ocular burn by ABHS was prominent with suspected limbal stem cell damage. INTERVENTIONS: She was hospitalized and was prescribed topical medications including antibiotics, steroid eye drops with preservative-free artificial tears, and oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. OUTCOMES: Despite intensive medical treatments, the corneal and conjunctival epithelial defects showed no improvement up to the 4(th) hospital day. After additional instillation of autoserum eye drops to promote epithelial healing, the corneal epithelium barely recovered from the temporal limbus. On the third week of admission, the epithelial defect was completely resolved without corneal opacity, although with minimal symblepharon in the lower fornix. CONCLUSIONS: Gel-type ABHS can cause severe form of ocular chemical burn such as delayed ocular surface healing. In clinical setting, immediate and thorough rinsing of alcohol-based gel and early intensive treatment are crucial.
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spelling pubmed-85421242021-10-25 Ocular chemical burn associated with gel type alcohol-based hand sanitizer: A case report Lee, Jaekyoung Jun, Jong Hwa Medicine (Baltimore) 5800 INTRODUCTION: Alcohol-based hand sanitizers (ABHS) are widely used for hand hygiene due to the coronavirus disease pandemic. However, risk awareness regarding its adverse effects is lacking. We aim to report a case of ocular chemical burn that showed severe clinical presentation associated with ABHS. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 5-year-old girl presented with severe left eye pain after 62% gel-type ABHS splashed into her eye. DIAGNOSIS: On slit lamp examination, a near total corneal and conjunctival epithelial defect with limbal pale on the lower half of the cornea was noted. Severe ocular burn by ABHS was prominent with suspected limbal stem cell damage. INTERVENTIONS: She was hospitalized and was prescribed topical medications including antibiotics, steroid eye drops with preservative-free artificial tears, and oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. OUTCOMES: Despite intensive medical treatments, the corneal and conjunctival epithelial defects showed no improvement up to the 4(th) hospital day. After additional instillation of autoserum eye drops to promote epithelial healing, the corneal epithelium barely recovered from the temporal limbus. On the third week of admission, the epithelial defect was completely resolved without corneal opacity, although with minimal symblepharon in the lower fornix. CONCLUSIONS: Gel-type ABHS can cause severe form of ocular chemical burn such as delayed ocular surface healing. In clinical setting, immediate and thorough rinsing of alcohol-based gel and early intensive treatment are crucial. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8542124/ /pubmed/34678862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000027292 Text en Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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title_short Ocular chemical burn associated with gel type alcohol-based hand sanitizer: A case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8542124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34678862
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