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Lidocaine 5% Medicated Plaster Versatis is a hydrogel plaster carrying 700 mg of lidocaine, worn for up to twelve hours a day over an area of post-herpetic neuralgia to reduce the burning and allodynia left behind by shingles.
- Local relief for the nerve pain left behind by shingles
- Only around three percent of the lidocaine reaches the blood
- Relief without sedation, so the head stays clear
- Damps ectopic firing without leaving a numb patch
- The plaster itself shields skin that hurts to touch
- Worn for up to twelve hours a day
Mechanism
The plaster delivers enough lidocaine into the skin to damp the ectopic firing of sensitised cutaneous nociceptors without producing a numb patch, and systemic absorption stays around three percent of the load. Part of the benefit is simply mechanical, since the plaster shields skin that hurts to touch.
Safetyrisks and cautions, not medical advice
prescription-only in the markets that license it; the licensed indication is narrow, and applying more than the recommended number of plasters or leaving them on beyond twelve hours raises systemic lidocaine exposure
Subjective profileweighing the evidence above
Post-herpetic neuralgia is a miserable condition with a short list of treatments that do not sedate, and this is one of them; only a small fraction of the lidocaine load reaches the circulation, so the relief is local and the head stays clear. Part of the benefit is simply the plaster covering skin that hurts to be touched, which is a real advantage rather than a criticism. The licensed indication is narrow though, and wearing extra plasters or leaving them on past the twelve hour mark trades away the one thing that makes it safer than an oral drug.
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Lidocaine 5% Medicated Plaster