Look for the FDA to now ban lidocaine.
Maybe I should thank my dentist for killing the cancers I never knew I had. :)
He has certainly administered enough of it to me over the last 10+ years.
I hope this is true for dibucaine also — I’ve been using it with a chronic skin condition for 20 years.
Too bad it’s the only local anaesthetic that works for me burns its way through my skin in slow mothion. The two dozen shots they gave me before a 45-minute skin cancer surgery felt like a daylong soujourn through Hell; didn’t feel a thing through that one or the second round after 75 minutes in the waiting room with an open wound on my cheek while waiting for the results from pathology, another 20-minute minute round of surgery, another hour in the waiting room until the pathologist finally declare me cancer-free and then the skin surgeon and plastic surgeon had figure out how best to stretch the remaining skin over the wound through trial and ever before letting a surgical resident sew my face up with half a dozen plastic stitches on one layer then another dozen regular stitches to close the outside layer of my skin. The lidocaine wore off within a couple of hours, just in time for me to still feel the afer-effect of what they did to the right side of my face.
Two days later I peeled off the bandage and put back in place before getting a chance to see the full effect of what they did. let’s just say that I looked like I’d been in bar fight that involved broken glass.
Within a month the only sign that anything went amiss was that my skin was thinner and my beard was sparser on the right side of my face than it was on the left side.
interesting, thanks
I really want to know the mechanism of this.
Something that causes apoptosis (aka programmed cell death) in any cell with these receptors does not sound safe to me.
Is the apoptosis limited only to cancer cells? I hope so.
Interesting. I sent my oncologist the link. Had squamous cell carcinoma in 2013. Still alive and kicking. I’ll bet he already knows about it.
OK. Countdown to the day it will be forbidden to be sold OTC — or anywhere else. We learned our lesson with Ivermectin when it comes to how the medical industrial complex works.
Lidocaine is used to try and terminate certain cardiac dysrhythmias. Not first line anymore. Was used a lot back in the day during emergency cardiac resusitative events (code blue). I would guess they would inject cancerous tissue with it rather than use an iv..like a dentist or skin surgeon injects only local areas.
I wonder how similar lidocaine is to regular ol’ cocaine.
The study, ... also found that T2R14 is particularly elevated in HNSCCs associated with the human papillomavirus (HPV).
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Wait a minute. So lidocaine infused condoms might be on the horizon?
Wouldn’t that be unusual?