A randomized controlled pilot study comparing aqueous cream with a beeswax and herbal oil cream in the provision of relief from postburn pruritis

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lewis, Peter A ^a   Burns, Grad Dip ^b   Webster, Anne ^b   Steer, Matthew ^b   Rudd, Michael ^b   Doubrovsky, Anna ^b   Gardner, Glenn ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPRURITIC AGENT; AQUEOUS CREAM; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HERBAL OIL; MEDILIXIR; PROPOLIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTBURN PRURITUS; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP DISORDER; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ANTIPRURITICS; BURNS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PLANT OILS; PRURITUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN CREAM; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAXES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866117635     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e31825042e2     Document Type: Article

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