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Q: What does the caine in benzocaine and lidocaine stand for?
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What are the active ingredients in lidocaine?

Lidocaine is its own drug. it is of the caine family of drugs and often combined with benzocaine or prilocaine to produce a comound for anesthetic purposes.


What are local anesthetic antihemorrhoid products?

Local anesthetics, such as benzocaine, lidocaine and tetracaine, to temporarily relieve the pain


Is lidocaine stronger than benzocaine?

It is more potent so it can be thought of it that way yes when you compare it gram for gram


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Does lidocaine contain cocaine?

No, they are two different substances. Lidocaine was given the -caine ending only due to the anesthetic effect it shares with cocaine. However, sometimes cocaine is adulterated with lidocaine to increase the perceived potency of the product (due to lidocaine's numbing effects).


What is Triocaine?

TrioCaine is a topical anesthetic gel containing benzocaine 20%, lidocaine 6%, and tetracaine 4%. The commercial website with information is: http://www.triocaine.com/


Can baby orajel cause a false positive for a drug test for cocaine?

Nope, lidocaine, and benzocaine will never provide cross reactivity on a cocaine EMIT assay, or GCMS.


Does cocaine turn orange when it comes into contact with bleach?

no..cutting agents from the "caine family do" ie benzocaine, procaine etc


How do you treat no see um bites?

with cortisone cream and prayer they are horrible


Can triocaine show up as cocaine?

Triocaine, which is a combination of lidocaine, benzocaine, and tetracaine, is only similar to cocaine in name alone. The reason for the similarity is that these chemicals were developed as an alternative to novocaine, which was so-named because it was a replacement for cocaine as an anesthetic, as such the suffix -caine has come to be used to indicate any synthetic anesthetic. Other than the name similarity, they are not chemically related and will not be confused on any drug tests.


Can you mix cocaine with powder procaine?

Yes it can and very often it does get mixed with procaine, benzocaine, lidocaine, etc. It;s pften cut with these agents because they also have the ability to be freebased, and the have similar numbing properties.


Is benzocaine an amide based anesthetic?

No, benzocaine is an ester.