Reports of allergic contact dermatitis and delayed hypersensitivity reactions to this “amide” anesthetic are limited. We report 16 cases of lidocaine contact allergy seen over 5 years.
Despite the frequent use of lidocaine as an anesthetic and its occasional use as a therapeutic agent, reports of ACD from lidocaine and delayed hypersensitivity reactions to it are even more limited.
performed a single-blind, randomized, prospective study to investigate whether topical lidocaine application by means of a lollipop could provide efficacious local anesthesia. Fifty patients ...
Local anesthetics such as lidocaine block pain effectively, but they also impair motor and autonomic functions by indiscriminately blocking sodium channels in all neurons. Binshtok et al.