Open AccessRemoval of Aural Tick in a General Practitioner Setting During COVID-19 Lockdown
Author(s) -
Zuraida Zainun,
Husbani Suhaimee,
Irfan Mohamad,
Azliehanis Abdul Hadi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bangladesh journal of medical science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.255
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2079-6854
pISSN - 2076-0299
DOI - 10.3329/bjms.v19i0.48171
Subject(s) - medicine , crying , foreign body , tick , covid-19 , general anaesthesia , foreign bodies , referral , pediatrics , pinna , tertiary referral centre , family medicine , surgery , veterinary medicine , psychiatry , pathology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Foreign body in the ear including beads and seeds is not uncommon in children. Tick also has been a common aural foreign body especially in tropical climate countries. Although in older cooperative children it can be attempted in the clinic setting, most of paediatric aural foreign bodies require general anaesthesia. In addition, a general practitioner setting may impose additional limitations. The available instruments and experience maybe be different from a tertiary referral centre. We report a case of a 3-year-old child with left ear pain for 4 days associated with loud crying when the pinna was touched. It has been worsening until the cry became continuous. The mother was quite hesitated to bring the child to hospital because of the lockdown situation. She sought nearby general practitioner where the engorged tick was removed without any complication in that clinic alone.
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.19(0) 2020 p. S 82-S 84