is there anything i can take besides Novocain?

Question

alergic to novocain

Answer 1

COPERWITHI,
IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW THAT DENTISTS NO LONGER USE "NOVOCAIN."
WHY?
Procaine is a local anesthetic drug of the amino ester group. It is used primarily to reduce the pain of intramuscular injection of penicillin, and is also used in dentistry. Owing to the ubiquity of the trade name Novocain, procaine is sometimes referred to generically as novocaine or novacaine.

Procaine was first synthesized in 1905, and was the first injectable man-made local anesthetic used. It was created by the German chemist Albert Einhorn (1857–1917) who gave the chemical the trade name Novocaine, from the Latin Novus (meaning New) and caine, as in "cocaine." It was introduced into medical use by surgeon Heinrich Braun (1862–1934).

Procaine is rarely used today since more effective (and hypoallergenic) alternatives such as lidocaine (xylocaine) exist. Prior to the discovery of procaine, cocaine was the most commonly used local anesthetic. Procaine (like cocaine) has the advantage of constricting blood vessels, which reduces bleeding, unlike other local anesthetics like lidocaine, and without the euphoric and addictive qualities of cocaine.

Procaine, an ester anesthetic, is metabolized in the plasma by the enzyme pseudocholinesterase through hydrolysis into para-amino benzoic acid (PABA), which is then excreted by the kidneys into the urine. Allergic reactions to procaine are usually not in response to procaine itself, but to PABA. About 1 in 3000 people have an atypical form of pseudocholinesterase, which doesn't hydrolyze ester anesthetics such as procaine, resulting in a prolonged period of high levels of the anesthetic in the blood and increased toxicity.

Procaine is the primary ingredient in the controversial preparation Gerovital H3, which is claimed by its advocates to remedy many effects of aging. The mainstream medical view is that these claims were seriously studied and discredited in the 1960s.
ARE YOU MAYBE THINKING OF EPINEPHINE? THIS COMPOUND WHICH SOME DENTAL ANESTHETICS CONTAIN, CAN MAKEYOUR HEART JUMP AND BEAT RAPIDLY.

Answer 2

Let your dentist know that you are allergic. They keep another type of local anaesthetic on hand that doesn't have epinephrine in it for people with allergies and for heart patients. They'll put that info on your chart to make sure that you get the right one every time.

Answer 3

Carbocain and marcain do not contain epinephrine and are used for patients sensitive to the epinephrine (bipolar, for example). Marcain is the longer-lasting of the two.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

We no longer use Novacaine. It sounds like you may be allergic to epinepherine. This is found in such anesthesia's as Lidocaine.

Tell your dentist that you would prefer carbocaine or one of its derivitives.(mepivicaine)

Answer 6

tell the dentist im sure there is something