Chemical Burn Caused by Garlic

Abstract

In traditional medicine garlic is used intensely for it’s antimicrobial, antihypertensive and anti hyperlipidemic etc. effects. For this reasons, use of garlic is common among the public health. In this case we aimed to present a patient with a second degree skin burn because of self applying garlic on his superficial eruptions.

Keywords

• burn
• garlic
• traditional treatment
• contact dermatitis
• yanık
• sarımsak
• geleneksel tedavi
• kontakt dermatit