my daughters friend has g6pd, she will have multiple dental extractions under general anesthesia. is that ok?

Question

6 yearold female

Answer 1

dentist is the right person for your question.

Answer 2

Hi there, I will answer your question.

According to the anesthesia text "Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease" by Stoeling, Robert, et al, drugs used during anesthesia have not been incriminated as triggering agents for hemolysis in patients with this disease. (i.e. they are safe). Although one should be aware that certain drugs sometimes used around the time of dental extraction can be a problem. For example, acetaminophen should not be used. Similarily some antibiotics such as peniclllin (often given during dental surgery) need to be avoided. There are many other agents that can be problematic such as antimalarial drugs, vitamin k analogues, sulfonamides; (for a complete list, one should visit a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency website or consult their physician)but in the case of anesthesia for dental extraction these drugs are irrelevant because they will not be used.

In summary, this is not a big deal. Most importantly, one should consult with their anesthesiologist prior to the anesthetic. It is important that this medical condition as well as all others are mentioned to your anesthesiologist.

It is important to realize that their are risks to having an anesthetic and bad outcomes do occur. However, I would not get too excited about one isolated incident in New York. While this case gone awry has been well documented in the media, they do not report the literally thousands of anesthetics that occur daily without any problems.

Answer 3

Don't panic, in Great Britain anaesthetist are under strict ruling and well qualified. If the dentist is convinced it is necessary to extract it might be better to do that under sedation to spare the girl a traumatic experience.It might feel a bit sore afterwards so keep some painkillers suitable for children ready.
A bit of TLC and the most favoured soft food afterwards will help a lot.
The parent should NOT!! show their nervousness to the child. But explain in a playful way what happens

Answer 4

G6pd Deficiency And Anesthesia

Answer 5

I work in an oral surgeon's office and we put children to sleep as young as 3 years old. The anesthesia they will give your daughter is extremely safe and every drug they have in the office is reversible. The only difficuly part will be if your daughter screams bloody murder, like most do, when they start her IV. The procedure, in general though, is nothing to worry about.

Answer 6

Why on earth would you pull a six year old's teeth under general anesthesia?
I hope this dentist knows what he/she's doing. Did you hear about the 6yo who died recently in Illinois from being over-medicated while have her teeth pulled at the dentists??

Horrible.

Answer 7

did you hear about the 5 year old little girl from new york who died from being over medicated by her dentist ? her mother was told to leave the room while they performed the procedure and when she returned her baby girl was dead !i would have a dental surgeon do it not just any regular dentist

Answer 8

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