A child with refractory orbital cellulitis after water pipe smoking

Orbital cellulitis in children rarely occurs secondary to smoking water pipe. A 3-year-old girl who presented with fever, eyelid swelling, pain, and proptosis of the left eye for 4 days after water pipe consumption. The patient was given the usual course of antibiotics for a few days along with subp...

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Autores principales: AlQahtani, Dhabiah S., Alsaif, Mohammed A., AlSulaiman, Naif, Alsuhaibani, Adel H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9116089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35601865
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/SJOPT.SJOPT_24_21
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author AlQahtani, Dhabiah S.
Alsaif, Mohammed A.
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description Orbital cellulitis in children rarely occurs secondary to smoking water pipe. A 3-year-old girl who presented with fever, eyelid swelling, pain, and proptosis of the left eye for 4 days after water pipe consumption. The patient was given the usual course of antibiotics for a few days along with subperiosteal abscess drainage however no improvement was noticed for a week. Cultures were positive for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and pseudomonas aeruginosa. Intravenous dexamethasone was co-administered in three courses for 3 weeks, during which residual symptoms was slowly resolving. In conclusion, attempt of dexamethasone in children can shorten hospital stay and augment full recovery.
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spelling pubmed-91160892022-05-19 A child with refractory orbital cellulitis after water pipe smoking AlQahtani, Dhabiah S. Alsaif, Mohammed A. AlSulaiman, Naif Alsuhaibani, Adel H. Saudi J Ophthalmol Case Report Orbital cellulitis in children rarely occurs secondary to smoking water pipe. A 3-year-old girl who presented with fever, eyelid swelling, pain, and proptosis of the left eye for 4 days after water pipe consumption. The patient was given the usual course of antibiotics for a few days along with subperiosteal abscess drainage however no improvement was noticed for a week. Cultures were positive for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and pseudomonas aeruginosa. Intravenous dexamethasone was co-administered in three courses for 3 weeks, during which residual symptoms was slowly resolving. In conclusion, attempt of dexamethasone in children can shorten hospital stay and augment full recovery. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9116089/ /pubmed/35601865 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/SJOPT.SJOPT_24_21 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Saudi Journal of Ophthalmology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9116089/
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