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XYLOCAINE AND ZANTAC
Xylocaine
The local anesthetic effect of Xylocaine is well known to any person who has ever had a flesh wound sewn up or an aching tooth extracted or filled. It is a failing of Xylocaine that it can not be absorbed through normal skin. It needs to be injected beneath the skin to target the nerve cells that carry pain messages all the way to the brain. It follows that people who buy creams or ointments containing Xylocaine to use on the skin are wasting their time. Xylocaine just cannot be absorbed quickly through normal skin.
Zantac
Histamine has been found to act on two classes of receptors. One class of histamine receptor mediates allergic reactions such as hay fever and hives. The other class controls the process of acid secretion in the stomach. Zantac has been designed to block the second class of histamine reaction. It switches off gastric acid production to aid in the healing of peptic ulcers. So common is the presence of gastric and duodenal ulcers that Zantac has become the most lucrative therapeutic agent on sale in the world today. Each year billions of dollars are spent on the purchase of Zantac.
Suddenly, a discovery by Australian doctors out of Perth, threatens to displace Zantac from the centre of the worlds pharmacological stage. Zantac and other H2 receptor blockers like Tagamet are on the verge of obsolescence because of the Perth discovery. It seems that both peptic and duodenal ulcers occur in the presence of bacteria called Helicobacter Pyloridi. Removal of Helicobacter through the use of antibiotic therapy causes healing of peptic ulceration. The relapse rate after triple antibiotic therapy is significantly less than the relapse rate after Zantac.
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GENERAL HEALTH
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