at times , I would hide the injury from mom. damn that shit hurt like hell.
getting your wound painted with that often hurt worse than what you did to get it. do they even still make it ?
Suck it up all you whining soi bois… It is good for you and if it didn’t kilt ya, you were made stronger!
That shit is pure evil !!!! You had to be really bleeding to get a band-aid. But she would whip that evil crap out at the mere hint of a scrap, and she painted it over the wound, making sure nothing was left uncovered. The only time she ever backed off that evil crap was when you scrapped off enough hide that she switched to a carbolic acid salve to keep the scabbing soft enough not to bleed when we bent an elbow or knee.
When we would get sore throats, swollen tonsils, our mom would dilute some in warm water and have us gargle with it. Yes, it cured whatever, but it could easily induce puking as well.
Have a bottle in the cabinet. Never goes bad.
We called it “Monkey Blood” back in tha day and my late Grandmother SWORE by it! 😂
this is mild stuff – the bad one was what i got – merthiolate – that is the one that burns
still gives me nightmares. my mother kept her bottle in the kitchen cause she used it so much
Think of what it felt like to the germs.
That one! Mercurochrome didn’t hurt at all, but that Methiolate was downright evil. Don’t know why everyone is going on about Mercurochrome.
Yeah….that shit hurt like hell…but it worked. It prevented countless infections, untold doctor visits and generally negated the need for antibiotics. If we still used it faithfully now we might have fewer ABX resistant germs.
I don’t remember it being that bad. Of course, our front yard had formerly been a gravel parking lot, so being told to go outside and play in the front yard was usually a death sentence…
I remember that stuff…
I remember it well.
Fire in a bottle.
But it kept many infections from taking hold when I cut/scraped. punctured my skin as a kid.
I don’t remember that ever burning or stinging. Iodine, OTOH, was pure hell, I think because it was mixed into alcohol.
Don’t forget its evil twin, Merthiolate.
When I was about 8 or 9, I stopped consulting Mom regarding injuries of any kind. I think whoever coined the axiom “the cure is worse than the disease” was once treated by nurse Mom.
My mom was a nurse but I don’t ever remember her keeping any around, lucky me I guess. Plenty of that fizzy liquid she would poor on it. Old can’t remember the name.
Hydrogen Peroxide, I still use it though I think it eats away uninjured skin too. I believe I heal faster if I use the Peroxide and Iodine at least it takes the soreness away.
Deacon in Louisiana
I mixed hydrogen peroxide with betadine to clean wounds
if it bubbles, it is working to kill the germs might sting a bit
depending on your wound. but you never got a infection if you used it. and kept it clean
Yes, it eats away the newly forming skin so I only use it at the wound site right after the wound occurs. Oh yeah, always had the bottle of merthiolate around when I was a kid, stuff stung like a hornet got ya.
Yep that’s it
One word, Iodine. If you know, you know.
Unfortunately the formula and ingredients have been changed. It is NOT the same as it was when I was growing up. It may have hurt but it definitely worked.
My mom was a firm believer in that stuff and yes it hurt as much or more than initial injury. I seem to remember the applicator was a glass rod with a small bulb on the business end, not a brush.
Mom was also on a first name basis with the ER nurses at the local hospital. Their line was “Hi Mrs Nemo, who is it this time?” (Mom had seven kids, all of whom survived to adulthood thanks to loving administration of the hug and the stick when necessary, by some miracle.) However you had to have a deep cut that required stitches. Otherwise the Iodine bottle came out after application of a good quantity of Hydrogen Peroxide, then a 4X4 band aid if the scrape was big enough or a couple regular sized ones for smaller scrapes.
Mom could tell from the sound of a scream whether or not blood was involved. If it wasn’t she didn’t even look up.
She also had a pediatrician whose answer to most every childhood complaint was penicillin in the butt. It was a great negative reinforcement: “I don’t feel good, I can’t go to school today.” “OK, I’ll call the doctor.” “Uh, maybe it’ll go away. I’ll try.”
Yep, you gotta love Moms. That reverse psychology was brilliant.
Grandma Celia called it monkey blood (Sangre de Chango), that stuff burned. We were told the germs dying was was causing the pain.
Well, it wasn’t JUST the bugs dying, was it?
🙂
Didn’t that stuff have mercury as an ingredient at one time?
If so, how many people are/were suffering from mercury poisoning?
Mercurochrome and peroxide for cuts and scrapes
Iodine swab to throat for cold or sore throat
Gargling with iodized salt
Crushed eucalyptus leaves in boiling water with towel tent over head to inhale steam and drain sinus infections.
Sulfa powder for deep wounds after peroxide cleanse (knee scrape to bone)
Home made chicken stock/soup nice and salty.
Survived it all in 50’s and 60’s, still here so guess it mostly worked
at times , I would hide the injury from mom. damn that shit hurt like hell.
getting your wound painted with that often hurt worse than what you did to get it. do they even still make it ?
Suck it up all you whining soi bois… It is good for you and if it didn’t kilt ya, you were made stronger!
That shit is pure evil !!!! You had to be really bleeding to get a band-aid. But she would whip that evil crap out at the mere hint of a scrap, and she painted it over the wound, making sure nothing was left uncovered. The only time she ever backed off that evil crap was when you scrapped off enough hide that she switched to a carbolic acid salve to keep the scabbing soft enough not to bleed when we bent an elbow or knee.
When we would get sore throats, swollen tonsils, our mom would dilute some in warm water and have us gargle with it. Yes, it cured whatever, but it could easily induce puking as well.
Have a bottle in the cabinet. Never goes bad.
We called it “Monkey Blood” back in tha day and my late Grandmother SWORE by it! 😂
this is mild stuff – the bad one was what i got – merthiolate – that is the one that burns
still gives me nightmares. my mother kept her bottle in the kitchen cause she used it so much
Think of what it felt like to the germs.
That one! Mercurochrome didn’t hurt at all, but that Methiolate was downright evil. Don’t know why everyone is going on about Mercurochrome.
Yeah….that shit hurt like hell…but it worked. It prevented countless infections, untold doctor visits and generally negated the need for antibiotics. If we still used it faithfully now we might have fewer ABX resistant germs.
I don’t remember it being that bad. Of course, our front yard had formerly been a gravel parking lot, so being told to go outside and play in the front yard was usually a death sentence…
I remember that stuff…
I remember it well.
Fire in a bottle.
But it kept many infections from taking hold when I cut/scraped. punctured my skin as a kid.
I don’t remember that ever burning or stinging. Iodine, OTOH, was pure hell, I think because it was mixed into alcohol.
Don’t forget its evil twin, Merthiolate.
When I was about 8 or 9, I stopped consulting Mom regarding injuries of any kind. I think whoever coined the axiom “the cure is worse than the disease” was once treated by nurse Mom.
My mom was a nurse but I don’t ever remember her keeping any around, lucky me I guess. Plenty of that fizzy liquid she would poor on it. Old can’t remember the name.
Hydrogen Peroxide, I still use it though I think it eats away uninjured skin too. I believe I heal faster if I use the Peroxide and Iodine at least it takes the soreness away.
Deacon in Louisiana
I mixed hydrogen peroxide with betadine to clean wounds
if it bubbles, it is working to kill the germs might sting a bit
depending on your wound. but you never got a infection if you used it. and kept it clean
Yes, it eats away the newly forming skin so I only use it at the wound site right after the wound occurs. Oh yeah, always had the bottle of merthiolate around when I was a kid, stuff stung like a hornet got ya.
Yep that’s it
One word, Iodine. If you know, you know.
Unfortunately the formula and ingredients have been changed. It is NOT the same as it was when I was growing up. It may have hurt but it definitely worked.
My mom was a firm believer in that stuff and yes it hurt as much or more than initial injury. I seem to remember the applicator was a glass rod with a small bulb on the business end, not a brush.
Mom was also on a first name basis with the ER nurses at the local hospital. Their line was “Hi Mrs Nemo, who is it this time?” (Mom had seven kids, all of whom survived to adulthood thanks to loving administration of the hug and the stick when necessary, by some miracle.) However you had to have a deep cut that required stitches. Otherwise the Iodine bottle came out after application of a good quantity of Hydrogen Peroxide, then a 4X4 band aid if the scrape was big enough or a couple regular sized ones for smaller scrapes.
Mom could tell from the sound of a scream whether or not blood was involved. If it wasn’t she didn’t even look up.
She also had a pediatrician whose answer to most every childhood complaint was penicillin in the butt. It was a great negative reinforcement: “I don’t feel good, I can’t go to school today.” “OK, I’ll call the doctor.” “Uh, maybe it’ll go away. I’ll try.”
Yep, you gotta love Moms. That reverse psychology was brilliant.
Grandma Celia called it monkey blood (Sangre de Chango), that stuff burned. We were told the germs dying was was causing the pain.
Well, it wasn’t JUST the bugs dying, was it?
🙂
Didn’t that stuff have mercury as an ingredient at one time?
If so, how many people are/were suffering from mercury poisoning?
Mercurochrome and peroxide for cuts and scrapes
Iodine swab to throat for cold or sore throat
Gargling with iodized salt
Crushed eucalyptus leaves in boiling water with towel tent over head to inhale steam and drain sinus infections.
Sulfa powder for deep wounds after peroxide cleanse (knee scrape to bone)
Home made chicken stock/soup nice and salty.
Survived it all in 50’s and 60’s, still here so guess it mostly worked