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The danger of topical toothache and cold sore medicine
« on: September 20, 2019, 02:02:10 PM »

A numbing medicine turned a woman's blood blue

By Ryan Prior and Scottie Andrew, CNN

September 20, 2019



(CNN)A 25-year-old woman walked into an emergency department in Providence, Rhode Island, complaining of generalized weakness, fatigue, shortness of breath... and an unusual symptom you don't see every day.

She was turning blue. Literally.

Drs. Otis Warren and Benjamin Blackwood wrote about the case in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday. Their patient, they wrote, looked "cyanotic," the clinical term for appearing blue.

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Re: The danger of topical toothache and cold sore medicine
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2019, 02:08:59 PM »

They attributed her blueness to a numbing agent the woman was using, which deadens nerve endings in the skin.

"She reported having used large amounts of topical benzocaine the night before for a toothache," the two co-authors wrote.

Warren, an emergency medicine physician at Miriam Hospital in Providence, told CNN he'd only ever seen one other "blue" patient while completing his residency. It stuck with him, so he was immediately able to identify the woman's condition.

"It's one of those rare cases that we're taught about, you study for, you take tests on, but you rarely ever see," he told CNN.

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Re: The danger of topical toothache and cold sore medicine
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2019, 02:10:20 PM »

Her condition kept blood from tissue

Warren diagnosed her with "acquired methemoglobinemia," a reaction caused by certain medicines that stops blood from carrying oxygen to tissue, he said.

Oxygen-rich blood is typically associated with a bright-red color. But even though blood appears blue in patients with methemoglobinemia, oxygen levels are actually quite high, Warren said.

Blood "selfishly binds" with oxygen and doesn't release it to the tissue where it's needed. And thus, the patient appears blue.

It's fitting that the antidote is a brilliant blue, too. Methylene blue returns a missing electron to the hemoglobin molecule that restores oxygen levels and helps release oxygen back into tissue, he said.

"In my field, emergency medicine, when you can cure a patient with a single antidote--that's a rare thing for us," he said.

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Re: The danger of topical toothache and cold sore medicine
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2019, 02:15:20 PM »

Numbing medication caused her reaction

In his patient's case, her reaction was caused by benzocaine, an active ingredient found in over-the-counter toothache and cold sore medicine. And while hers is a rare side effect, it warranted a warning from the Food and Drug Administration, which cautioned against its use in children under 2, who sometimes take the medicine to soothe teething pain.

Warren's patient recovered after two doses of methylene blue and an overnight stay at the hospital. But when levels of the mutated blood rise 50% or higher, patients can enter a coma or develop heart and brain complications from the lack of blood to tissue. Any amount over 60% can cause death, he said.

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Re: The danger of topical toothache and cold sore medicine
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2019, 02:20:26 PM »
for marking down thus:

1) topical

2) for numbing or deadening toothache and cold sores (ogahip in cebuano-visayan)

3) active ingredient: benzocaine

the usual rule applies; it's best to read over-the-counter medicine ingredients before self-medicating.

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