These lidocaine patches are prescription-only. OTC lidocaine 4% patches can be used to relieve ... an alternative treatment ...

Dinsmore and colleagues investigated the efficacy and safety of topical eutectic lidocaine–prilocaine mixture ... IELTs (from ∼1 min at baseline to 4.9 min at follow-up), and statistical ...

Lidocaine is used widely as an injectable local anesthetic, occasionally as an intravenous drug for cardiac arrhythmias, and increasingly as a topical anesthetic ... 10% (3 of 4 positive reactions ...

However, such responses appear to have increased because of lidocaine's more frequent use in topical therapies ... gave the following results: 3 of 4 patients, 4 of 6 patients, and 3 of 6 patients ...