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[rootofnewt]

i bet this study on anaesthesia and hair color compensated research subjects pretty well.

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[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

indyansel and I were discussing that story this morning. He's a natural redhead, and has always needed more local anaesthesia, especially for dental work.

I would hope they compensated them well for that. OWIE!!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Although, for dental work, especially in my lower jaw, I have needed like 3 times normal dosage (once I had 6 shots around work in 1 tooth), not an extra 20% that the study indicates.

[lupusyondergir1.livejournal.com]

Really odd. When I was a kid I had red hair, but it's darkened since then into brown. It also takes a metric ton of any painkiller to even make a dent on my system.

I read something interesting about red hair the other day, actually. Apparently it's an entirely seperate bit of DNA from hair color. People with red hair have any other color hair, and red in addition to that. So, blondes with the red hair trait have red hair, brunettes with the trait have auburn hair, etc. Strange, isn't it?

[bandhiaduit.livejournal.com]

I don't recall where I picked up this factoid but I once heard something about certain medications working differently on those of the Asian persuasion...My husband is Japanese, and we *have* noticed a difference in the amount of medication he can take--the opposite problem than that of redheads, actually--he needs something tantamount to a *child's* dosage of antihistamines and sleep aids, for example (and he is hardly what one would call "child-sized", if you catch my drift.)