Tempestuous
10-04-2007, 07:19 AM
Interesting concept.
Believed that people could take this pain med and not have the numbness associated with current pain killers.
You could have surgery and not be in pain while at the same time not have the general inability to function as usual.....
*laughs* if this comes through I quickly see the military utilizing this, it would me fewer "quarters" being given out after procedures & surgeries as you could still function on meds.
In experiments with rats, the scientists combined capsaicin -- the ingredient that makes chili peppers hot -- and a drug called QX-314. This combination blocked pain-sensing neurons without the side effects of numbness or paralysis that typically accompany current pain relievers.
"We found a way to target local anesthetics to block only pain fibers," said lead researcher Dr. Clifford Woolf, the Richard Kitz Chair of Anesthesia Research at Harvard Medical School. "At present, any standard local anesthetic blocks pain fibers and fibers that produce numbness and paralysis. We have managed to block pain fibers without the numbness or paralysis."
Full article (http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=608821)
Believed that people could take this pain med and not have the numbness associated with current pain killers.
You could have surgery and not be in pain while at the same time not have the general inability to function as usual.....
*laughs* if this comes through I quickly see the military utilizing this, it would me fewer "quarters" being given out after procedures & surgeries as you could still function on meds.
In experiments with rats, the scientists combined capsaicin -- the ingredient that makes chili peppers hot -- and a drug called QX-314. This combination blocked pain-sensing neurons without the side effects of numbness or paralysis that typically accompany current pain relievers.
"We found a way to target local anesthetics to block only pain fibers," said lead researcher Dr. Clifford Woolf, the Richard Kitz Chair of Anesthesia Research at Harvard Medical School. "At present, any standard local anesthetic blocks pain fibers and fibers that produce numbness and paralysis. We have managed to block pain fibers without the numbness or paralysis."
Full article (http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=608821)