Use of mineral oil Fleet enema for the removal of a large tar burn: A case report

Carta, Tricia; Gawaziuk, Justin P.; Liu, Song; Logsetty, Sarvesh

doi:10.1016/j.burns.2014.07.007

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“…Although the articles do not describe the time required for asphalt removal, these oils and polyols gradually emulsified asphalt on the skin. After the 1990s, health‐care products of mineral oil were reported as useful agents to emulsify asphalt in 12 cases . Gauze soaked in mineral oil is repeatedly applied onto asphalt, which allows asphalt to be dissolved in a few hours.…”

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“…Health-care products of mineral oil are useful agents to emulsify asphalt. [5][6][7][8] M70 liquid paraffin containing baby oil (NISA Baby Oil) and a mineral oil product (Fleet Mineral Oil Enema â ; Fleet Company, Lynchburg, VA, USA) removed asphalt in 1-2 h. 6,8 Mineral oil including baby oil is safe to use on skin because the main purpose of these mineral oils is as a skin moisturizer. The other advantage of these health-care products is that they are easily available at grocery stores anywhere.…”

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“…After the 1990s, health-care products of mineral oil were reported as useful agents to emulsify asphalt in 12 cases. [5][6][7][8] Gauze soaked in mineral oil is repeatedly applied onto asphalt, which allows asphalt to be dissolved in a few hours. Baby oil (NISA Baby Oil â containing M70 liquid paraffin as a main component; Nisa Retail, Scunthorpe, UK) removed asphalt on 4% TBSA skin including the face, arms and hands in three cases in 1-1.5 h. 6 Covering with white petrolatum alone or sesame oil-based ointment (MEBO â ; MEBO Life Science, Rowland Heights, CA, USA) was reported to remove asphalt in a few or single day, respectively.…”

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Edible oil methods to remove asphalt on burns

Yamazaki

Shido

Yamasaki

et al. 2018

The Journal of Dermatology

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Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a viscous liquid or a semi-solid form of petroleum. In cases of hot liquid asphalt splash, asphalt broadly adheres to the skin surface and is hard to remove from skin. Because accidental burns from hot liquid asphalt splash rarely occur, there is no consensus about initial approaches to remove adherent asphalt from skin. We reviewed articles relating to asphalt burns and summarized methods to remove adherent asphalt from skin, including our present case in which we successfully removed adherent asphalt by edible butter and vegetable oil. We summarized information of 127 cases and classified agents used to remove asphalt in four categories: (i) medicines; (ii) health-care products; (iii) foods; and (iv) solvents. Before the 1990s, antimicrobial topical medicines were mainly reported to treat asphalt burns but it took half a day or more to remove asphalt. Mineral oils and edible oils such as butter and vegetable oil are easily available in grocery stores and could emulsify to remove asphalt in a few hours. From the review of articles and our experience, edible oils are useful agents for the first approach to remove asphalt from the point of view of efficacy, safety, availability and expense.

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