Severe ocular injury and its management following self induced plant extracts: A case report

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• 作者：Fahad Al-Saikhan^a ; ^{fsaikhan@kkesh.med.sa} ; Mohamed Al Amry^b ; ^{malamry@kkesh.med.sa} ; Saleh Al-Othaimeen^b ; ^{sothaimin@kkesh.med.sa} ; Saeed Alwadani^b
• 关键词：Ocular injury ; Plant extract ; Rashad ; Lepidium sativum ; Lepidium
• 刊名：Journal of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：P131_13190164
• 类别：pha
• 出版时间：April, 2012
• 卷：20
• 期：2
• 页码：177-179
• 文件大小：748 K

摘要

Introduction

Homemade and folk remedies鈥?use is widely practiced in under developed countries, of the used materials are plant extracts, lemon juice and some dried insect bodies.

Case presentation

We report a case of severe ocular injury and its management after self administered plants seeds in both the eyes of a 47-year-old man who had bilateral severe ocular damage after he put the seeds of a plant Lepidium Sativum (Rashad) in his eyes. He reported severe ocular pain and redness, conjunctival epithelial defect and symblepharon. A conjunctival biopsy was taken which turned out to be negative for the immunological staining studies for Ocular Cicatricial Pemphegoid (OCP). The patient鈥檚 visual acuity improved from 20/40 before treatment to 20/25 after treatment with no further sequelae after 3 months follow-up.

Conclusions

Self induced plant extracts can cause ocular complications. Public awareness is necessary to help in discouraging the use of these harmful plant extracts in human eyes.