Tragic result of traditional hand pain control methods: Burns

Abstract

Thermal burns often occur accidentally, and patients rarely can tolerate the “heated” materials. In this report, 2 cases that put heated materials to their hands to relieve their another hand pain as a traditional method is presented. A 54-year-old female and healthy patient was referred with wrist burn due to the hot melted tar to relieve her carpal tunnel pain, and a 13-year-old female patient was admitted with finger burn due to the hot onion to alleviate her paronychia. Thermal injuries are rarely self-inflicted. These traditional pain control methods resulted in severe burns. Detailed medical history and other medical conditions underneath the hand burn should be revealed.