The Effect of Aloe Vera Gel and Nitrofurazone on Dressing Related Pain of Superficial Burn Wounds

Burn injuries are a painful form of trauma.1 Patients of burn injuries experience severe pain on a daily basis, both immediately after the injury and during therapeutic procedures, such as dressing changes,debridement and physiotherapy.2 In addition, repetition of these painful procedures often creates anticipatory anxiety forpatients with burns.3 Anxiety induced by a bad acute pain experience risks poor compliance with rehabilitation therapies,increased pain perception and loss of belief in the burn team.3 Application of topical anti-bacterial agents and disinfectants was shown as the most widely used topical therapy in burn injuries with anti-microbial effects.4 Herbal medicines with less toxicity and as inexpensive therapies have been used in healing of burn injuries,5,6 but reports on pain control in burn patients is very few.