Burns Flashcards
Burn has prickly feeling, red skin with urticaria
Urtica Urens
Itching, burning, worse scratching even though they want to
- burns worse cold
- skin is dry and rough when healing
- bleeding with scratching
Arsenicum
red, hot, dry burns
-swollen or in streaks
Belladonna
Burns to lips, chilblains
-burns where skin is bluish
Hamamelis
First stage chilblains, dry itch red pustular burns
Terebinthia
Burned eyes with acrid discharge
-burning sensation and redness
Euphrasia
Second and third degree burns better cold
- blistering, burning and intense pruritic
- burning is more intense than itching
Cantharis
Specific Rx for chemical burns
Blisters from over use
-burns that are slow to heal
Causticum
Red, swollen skin with linear vesicles that are very pruritic
blistering, vesicles with lots of itching and redness
-irritable, restless
-itching more intense than burning
Rhus-tox
itching with tremendous excoriation, bleeding
-pustules, ecchymosis and corroded painful burn
Kreosotum
stitching pain, third degree burn that is hot
Saponaria
burns with great sensitivity and sleeplessness
Coffea