Lidokain/Adrenalin Aguettant
Lidokain/Adrenalin Aguettant is a numbing medicine (local anesthetic) used to make a part of your body numb for surgery so you don't feel pain.
Form
injektioneste, liuos
Strength
10 mg/ml + 5 mikrog/ml
Active Ingredient
Lidocaine hydrochloride monohydrate
Manufacturer
Laboratoire Aguettant
How to Use
Dosage
Your doctor will decide your dose. It depends on where you need to be numb, how long it needs to last, and your age, weight, and health.
Method
This medicine is given as an injection. The injection site depends on why you are receiving it.
Important
Your doctor will decide the highest safe dose for you, considering your age, weight, and general health.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Feeling sick (nausea)
- •Numbness, tingling, or burning feeling
- •Fainting or loss of consciousness
- •Slow heartbeat
- •Low or high blood pressure
- •Throwing up (vomiting)
RARE
- •Signs of nerve system problems, such as numbness or tingling around the mouth, numb tongue, being more sensitive to sounds, or trouble speaking.
- •Seizures (fits)
- •Headache with ringing or clicking in the ears and being extra sensitive to light
- •Irregular heartbeat, weak heart function, or heart stopping.
- •Slow or stopped breathing.
- •Severe allergic reactions like swelling of hands, feet, face, lips, mouth, tongue, or throat, trouble breathing, itchy rash, fever, a drop in blood pressure, and shock.
- •Bluish skin, headache, shortness of breath, and tiredness (methemoglobinemia).
Important Warnings
- Do not take this medicine if you are allergic to lidocaine, adrenaline, other similar numbing medicines, or any other ingredients in this medicine.
- This numbing medicine should not be given into your spine (epidural) if you have very low blood pressure or have lost a lot of blood or fluids.
- Do not use this medicine to numb fingers, toes, nose, ears, or the penis.
- Tell your doctor if you have heart problems, high blood pressure, liver or kidney problems, or diabetes.
- Lidokain/Adrenalin Aguettant 20 mg/ml should not be used in children under 12 years, and 10 mg/ml should not be used in children under 1 year.