Xylocaine (lidocaine) is longer lasting and is ... your healthcare provider may want to test you to see if you are also allergic to the alternatives. Skin testing for local anesthetics should ...

Despite the frequent use of lidocaine as an anesthetic and its occasional use as a therapeutic agent, reports of ACD from lidocaine and delayed hypersensitivity reactions to it are even more limited.

Delayed hypersensitivity to lidocaine may present as “suture allergy,” as in Case 1. Lidocaine allergy also should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a localized delayed-type ...