Cheilitis is a term to describe inflammation of the vermillion border lips. This case report describes compounding with combination hydrocortisone,chemicetin, lanolin and vaseline for treatment allergic contact cheilitis. Patients com-plaints lower lip feeling dry, cracked, sore bleeding;dryness 4 days ago. Dry lips getting worse 2 ago until bleeding. Objective examination revealed fissures, mu...

Beside conventional therapy, the management of necrotizing cellulitis and fasciitis is based on non-pharmacological treatments. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and dressings are the most frequently used techniques. The usefulness of hyperbaric oxygen therapy is clearly demonstrated in experimental studies while the efficacy of this technique is poorly assessed in clinical practice. The French consens...

By Surgeon B. D. BASU, i.m.s. Case 1.?Lance Naik I. Gr. had been suffering from eczema of palms of both hands and heel of left foot for a long time before he came under my observation. His medical history sheet showed several admissions in hospital for eczema of the palms for a period extending over a year. Zinc, iodoform, vaseline, &c., locally had been tried before. When he came to me, I trie...

Recently, allergy to titanium has been reported. However, the patch test reagent for titanium is not standardized yet. The form and density of the patch test reagent for titanium was changed and examined in a group of normal subjects and a group with skin disease. The following conclusions were obtained. 1. A reagent which was composed of pure titanium powder and vaseline was not preferable bec...

BACKGROUND Wound healing is often impaired in diabetic animals and humans. Matrix metalloproteases act as pro-inflammatory agents in physiological wound healing pathways by stimulating cytokines including the interleukins, IL6, IL1A and IL1B, and the tumor necrosis factor and transforming growth factor beta1. Botanicals are traditionally used to assist healing of different types of wounds, beca...

This study was undertaken with the object of determining the part played by the several component elements of the tissue method of anaerobic cultivation in the establishment of anaerobic conditions in the culture tube. Data have been presented to show the suitability of methylene blue as an indicator of reduction processes in culture media by which the removal of the last traces of oxygen may b...