psd-502 and Chalazion

Chalazia are not uncommon in children. If conservative therapy for them fails, incision and drainage are necessary and usually require a general anesthetic, which increases costs and risks.. Five children (3 to 8 years old) had a eutectic mixture of lidocaine and prilocaine applied to the skin of the eyelid for 1 hour. Then local anesthetic was injected into the same site.. The local anesthetic injection was painless, permitting successful incision and drainage in all cases.. Lidocaine-prilocaine cream permits local anesthetic injection into the eyelids, facilitating office-based management of chalazia in children.

Topics: Administration, Topical; Anesthesia, Local; Anesthetics, Local; Chalazion; Child; Child, Preschool; Drug Combinations; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Lidocaine; Lidocaine, Prilocaine Drug Combination; Male; Ointments; Prilocaine