Wondering if anyone has or knows of someone that has had a reaction to Novocain? What happened? Thanks a bunch! http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/smile.gif

I've asked a few allergists and anesthesiologists (who often have to deal with it). Between them, they say they've seen 1 case with a total of about 250 years of active practice between them.

In most cases its an allergic reaction to the delivery mechinism rather than the drug, or to a preservative in the drug. Its pretty simple and safe for either an allergist or anestheisologist to do a simple skin prick test to see what the real situation is.

By the way the reason that anethesoligists come up in this discussion is because this drug, or a variation of it, is used so much in surgury that they have learned to test for allergies.