Local anaesthetic (numbing medicine)

Medicines that numb the treated area; lidocaine, prilocaine, tetracaine and benzocaine are examples. With numbing creams applied to the skin, the main risk is too much of the medicine passing through the skin into the blood. Your physician determines which cream is applied, how much, to which area and for how long.

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