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What are local reactions?
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Swelling: Local reactions are fairly common and present as redness and swelling at the injection site. This can happen immediately, or several hours after the treatment.
Answered 4/8/2015
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A reaction involving: only a limited area of the body. This is in contrast to a systemic or generalized reaction. Often this is used to describe a reaction to an insect bite or infection. A local reaction would be confined to an arm or a leg or small part of the body, but a systemic reaction might cause breathing problems, fever, generalized hives, vomiting, fainting, etc.
Answered 11/26/2018
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I ve had neurologic reactions to low doses of local anesthesia 1 2 of a small vial or carbocaine and also epinephrine topically fine with lidocane an alergist advises using gas from now on however I have a root cnal and several deep filing replacements am
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