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- Title
Mentha pulegium’a Bağlı Gelişen Bir Fito Kontakt Dermatit Olgusu.
- Authors
ÖNER, Ümran; BİLEN, Handan; GENCER, Hatice; MELİKOĞLU, Mehmet; ÖZDEMİR, Şevki
- Abstract
Herbal medicines are widely used for dermatological and rheumatic complaints especially by elderly patients. Although the effects and side effects of the products are not known exactly, the tendency towards alternative medicine methods is increasing. A 66-yearold male patient was admitted to our clinic with redness and wounds on the knees after covering pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium) due to pain. The patient was diagnosed as irritant phytocontact dermatitis was given antiseptic dressings and antibiotic cream, systemically methylprednisolone, antihistaminic and antibiotic treatments. All lesions were treated with postinflammatory hyperpigmentation. We wanted to present our case because of the common use of such traditional therapies in our country as well as the first case of irritant phytocontact dermatitis due to M. pulegium in the literature.
- Subjects
OLDER patients; ALTERNATIVE medicine; KNEE injuries; HERBAL medicine; SKIN inflammation; HYPERPIGMENTATION
- Publication
Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Dermatology, 2020, Vol 30, Issue 3, p109
- ISSN
1300-0330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5336/dermato.2019-65980