From Chemical Burn to Below Knee Amputation: Amputation Secondary to Application of Over-the-Counter Topical Analgesic With Menthol and Methyl Salicylate

Topical analgesics and topical rubefacients are widely used to control acute as well as chronic pain every day. Due to their availability without a prescription, consumers often overlook any potentially harmful effects and consider them largely benign. Here, we present a rare case of chemical burn t...

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Autores principales: Desai, Rohan, Gutierrez, Jesus, Cherukuri, Sundar V, Guzman, Jesus, Deoker, Abhizith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8727320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35004014
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20191
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description Topical analgesics and topical rubefacients are widely used to control acute as well as chronic pain every day. Due to their availability without a prescription, consumers often overlook any potentially harmful effects and consider them largely benign. Here, we present a rare case of chemical burn triggered by a typical over-the-counter (OTC) analgesic containing menthol and methyl salicylate resulting in chemical burn, complicated by necrotizing infection treated by below the knee amputation.
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spelling pubmed-87273202022-01-07 From Chemical Burn to Below Knee Amputation: Amputation Secondary to Application of Over-the-Counter Topical Analgesic With Menthol and Methyl Salicylate Desai, Rohan Gutierrez, Jesus Cherukuri, Sundar V Guzman, Jesus Deoker, Abhizith Cureus Internal Medicine Topical analgesics and topical rubefacients are widely used to control acute as well as chronic pain every day. Due to their availability without a prescription, consumers often overlook any potentially harmful effects and consider them largely benign. Here, we present a rare case of chemical burn triggered by a typical over-the-counter (OTC) analgesic containing menthol and methyl salicylate resulting in chemical burn, complicated by necrotizing infection treated by below the knee amputation. Cureus 2021-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8727320/ /pubmed/35004014 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20191 Text en Copyright © 2021, Desai et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Desai, Rohan
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From Chemical Burn to Below Knee Amputation: Amputation Secondary to Application of Over-the-Counter Topical Analgesic With Menthol and Methyl Salicylate
title From Chemical Burn to Below Knee Amputation: Amputation Secondary to Application of Over-the-Counter Topical Analgesic With Menthol and Methyl Salicylate
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title_fullStr From Chemical Burn to Below Knee Amputation: Amputation Secondary to Application of Over-the-Counter Topical Analgesic With Menthol and Methyl Salicylate
title_full_unstemmed From Chemical Burn to Below Knee Amputation: Amputation Secondary to Application of Over-the-Counter Topical Analgesic With Menthol and Methyl Salicylate
title_short From Chemical Burn to Below Knee Amputation: Amputation Secondary to Application of Over-the-Counter Topical Analgesic With Menthol and Methyl Salicylate
title_sort from chemical burn to below knee amputation: amputation secondary to application of over-the-counter topical analgesic with menthol and methyl salicylate
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8727320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35004014
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20191
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