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Four cases of branding in children: A harmful traditional practice in rural India

Author(s) -

Sandesh Kini,

Ramesh Y Bhat,

Koushik Handattu,

Kalyan Chakravarthi Konda

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

sri lanka journal of child health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 2386-110X

pISSN - 1391-5452

DOI - 10.4038/sljch.v49i3.9155

Subject(s) - medical journal , sri lanka , scopus , publishing , medicine , transparency (behavior) , open access publishing , library science , family medicine , political science , south asia , medline , law , history , ethnology , computer science

‘Branding’ is a superstitious practice in rural India where third degree burns are inflicted on the skin of a person with a hot iron rod or metallic/wooden object or incense sticks to treat various medical conditions. Commonly children are taken to the traditional healers for medical conditions like jaundice, anaemia, pain in the abdomen, seizures etc. Here we report 4 cases of branding in children.

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