Use of therapeutic laser in dog bite wound: case report
Keywords:
acupuncture points, bites and stings, case reports, dogs, laser therapyAbstract
Introduction: dogs cause between 76% and 94% of animal bites world wide. Their usual complications are due to infections with anaerobic and aerobic germs. For this reason, laser treatment of lesions is indicated to reduce the risk of infections, deformities, and scars. In addition to inducing analgesia in the irradiated area, its anti-inflammatory and anti-edema effects accelerate all phases of the healing process, which occurs more quickly, with better collagen organization, and fewer complications.
Objective: to present a pediatric patient, bitten by a dog, whose injuries were treated with laser applied to acupuncture points.
Case presentation: a 12-year-old male high school student, white skin color, who 72 hours earlier was bitten by his mixed breed dog while playing in the house. The wounds were cleaned and irrigated with saline solution, and the largest one on the face was sutured. She was instructed to follow up her condition in consultation with specialists in natural and traditional medicine for the application of laser to acupuncture points for 15 sessions.
Conclusions: dog bite injuries are common in children. Timely treatment of wounds, which includes laser treatment at acupuncture points, enables a satisfactory healing process, with acceptable aesthetic results for patients. This work provided scientific evidence on a procedure insufficiently addressed in the national medical literature
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