TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - A garlic burn JO - BMJ case reports A1 - Sharp, Olivia A1 - Waseem, Saima A1 - Wong, Kai Yuen SP - e226027 EP - e226027 VL - 2018 IS - N2 -

A 45-year-old woman presented with a 12 hour history of painful blisters and erythema over the dorsum of her left great toe. The patient reported applying freshly sliced raw garlic to the dorsum of her left great toe during the past 4 weeks for up to 4 hours a day to treat a fungal nail infection. On examination, the left great toe was swollen, erythematous and blistering. Her great toenail was yellow and slightly lifted from the nail bed. Clinically, she had a partial thickness burn and onychomycosis (figure 1). The skin on the toe was pH 9. The toe was irrigated …

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LA - en SN - 1757-790X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-226027 ID - ref1 ER -