OBSERVATION AND MANEGEMENT ABOUT SIDE EFFECTS OF IMMERSION BATH WITH NEOGERAMINE IN BURNING CHILDREN

Hu LJ

Department of General Surgery, Children¡¯s Hospital, Chongqing University of Medical Sciences, Chongqing, China

 

Objective: To notice the side effects of immersion bath with neogeramine in burning children in time and manage them properly, and to improve the treatment of burning.

Methods: 50 cases of burning children, mild to moderate degree and without infection, were reviewed. All of them have received immersion bath with 1:5000 neogeramine one time (10 to 15 minutes) per day during hospital stay.   

Results: 6 cases out of 50, with a percentage of 12%, met side effects. 3 of them presented with shivering and hyperpyrexia, 2 of them had transient fever, the other one appeared as cutaneous eruption. Giving antihistamine and changing bath liquid can properly manage all the side effects.

Conclusion: In cases receiving immersion bath with neogeramine, a few of them meet side effects, including shivering, hyperpyrexia, transient fever and cutaneous eruption. Proper managements are needed, such as giving antihistamine and changing bath liquid.

Key words: Children, Burning, Immersion bath, Neogeramine, Side effect

 

 
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