I have a visceral reaction to this pic.

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badmamerjammer@reddit

this stuff is a life saver when you get to the very end of a multi-hour tattoo session!

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lmb97nau@reddit

Yep! I had to scroll way too far to find this comment!

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lmb97nau@reddit

I had to scroll yea too far to find a comment about use during the tattooing process. I looooove me some bactine use during a long session!

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YinzaJagoff@reddit

He asks for it now becomes it numbs his boo boos.

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aseradyn@reddit

They still make it.

My sister-in-law thinks it is funny that my brother and I both still reach for it whenever we have broken skin. I Just used it last week!

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Disneyhorse@reddit

Millennials killed it because they have a viscera reaction to a photo. They’re not going to buy it and subject themselves or their open kids to it

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I'm not gonna say this didn't sting, it did, but it was a VAST IMPROVEMENT over the other options. My grandmother still kept Mercurochrome in her house, which feels like being tazed. My mom tended to just dump rubbing alcohol on everything. I only got bactined if I hurt myself while I was over at my nice childless auntie's house. I view this bottle fondly and with relief.

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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

Same! My Grandma put Rubbing Alcohol on cuts, and a washcloth in my mouth for me to bite down for the pain, lol. When the school nurse hipped me to Bactine, it was life-changing as a little kid.

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tiny_purple_Alfador@reddit

I tried to tell my mom about the bactine. Since it didn't sting as much, that meant it didn't WORK, so she wouldn't get it because she thought it would give me gangrene or something.

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Funny_Collection8362@reddit

"Listen son, if your not writhing in agony when I'm applying it then its not strong enough and it's not working" ....Reaches for the brown bottle of doom known as TCP

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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

That's hilarious and relatable

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zombie_overlord@reddit

My grandma still had leftover weird medicine from a bygone era. I got athlete's foot and I remember her putting something called "Whitfield's Ointment" on it. It smelled like actual ass, and it never made it any better. I may have mercury in my blood now though.

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tiny_purple_Alfador@reddit

Grandma medicine only has one of two outcomes: Makes everything slightly worse, or else it works with supernaturally eerie efficacy. Carmex is legit magic, fisherman's friend lozenges are magic, and tigerbalm is sent by the gods themselves. All of the other stuff in gramma's medicine cabinet? Maybe don't touch any of that.

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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

I still use my Grandma's "break a fever" method. She used to strip me butt naked, shout "cover your privates!", douse me in rubbing alcohol and put me in front of a box fan on full blast. Broke my fever everytime. In fact, I had the flu two weeks ago as a grown man, and poured alcohol on myself and sat in front of a fan...still works 😆.

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tiny_purple_Alfador@reddit

Lol, that sounds... Bracing.

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KarenEiffel@reddit

feels like being tazed.

Holy shit dude this is the perfect description! I have not been tazed and don't ever need to be bc I know it's the same.

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tiny_purple_Alfador@reddit

Like, rubbing alcohol fuckin stings, mercurochrome causes a full body jolt, right? And it's nice that kindly aunties continue to be kindly aunties. This makes me feel fuzzy.

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LegallyReactionary@reddit

Ha! I was gonna say people haven’t known horror until they’ve been hit with mercurochrome in an open wound. That shit is liquefied hatred.

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TK-385@reddit

My grandma had Bactine in her bathroom cabinet in Hawaii. My parents had Neosporin or rubbing alcohol in theirs.

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Voltage604@reddit

I had an old school gym teacher. We played hard in gym if it was a physical sport. Skinned knees and elbows all the time. At the end of class we would all line up so he could inspect our knees and elbows and spray anyone that was hurt.

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GoblinPunch20xx@reddit

One of the first lies kids learn not to believe / the way we find out adults are liars

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mmmmpork@reddit

way better than 90% ISO alcohol though

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NotEvenHere4It@reddit

Dettol too.

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bringsafe@reddit

Fun fact, it uses the same active ingredient as Lysol (Benzalkonium chloride)

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eastern-cowboy@reddit

Mercurochrome is what we used. Ouch

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MaxyBrwn_21@reddit

Not 100% no sting but still much better than iodine.

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Aggressive_Economy_8@reddit

No sting my ass

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majj27@reddit

I literally came here to type this, and literally heard myself saying this comment.

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CitrusMints@reddit

me too! lol

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

Oh it will sting your ass too

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vrgamemachine@reddit

Can confirm, it does indeed sting your ass.

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Fr4gd0ll@reddit

In the 90s, my dad was going on a men's retreat, and he had a gnarly case of athletes' foot. He was very extroverted and really looking forward to this trip.

My mom was worried he wouldn't take care of his feet while he was gone, so she decided to nuke his feet with bactine. (I know it's a fungus, not a bacteria, but she wasn't into biology)

This tragic mistake is how our family (and sadly all of the men on my dads retreat) learned that there is good bacteria on your feet that prevents them from smelling too horrible. My dad became notorious in this retreat, and his cabin mates made him put his shoes outside when they were sleeping.

I can still smell his feet when I see this picture.

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cosp85classic@reddit

Giving me flashbacks. I had to bunk with a spaniard during one of my deployments to Afghanistan. His boots and shoes had that funk to them. We made him keep his footwear in hallway, but his feet were still bad. Just so bad.

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theboyinthecards@reddit

It would hurt less to just cut off your limb!

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Wild_Replacement8213@reddit

Visceral reaction? Yeah that is a great description for that one

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hypothermicyeti@reddit

It didn't just sting, there was initial pain and then it continued to burn.

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trkyN3St3w@reddit

Yikes. Forgot all about this. It was the pain that made the pain go away.

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Colb_678@reddit

Yeah, no sting my ass. Sprayed some on a tire burn once. 🔥😵‍💫

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khatpewp@reddit

I also can smell this picture. Between this and Mercurichrome

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No-Mistake8127@reddit

It stung and it never worked.

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Waste_Curve994@reddit

My dads a surgeon. He said this is far worse on wounds than just soap and water.

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geb_bce@reddit

We use Bactine religiously in my house. My kids rarely use bandaids, I can give them a damp rag with a few squirts of Bactine and they'll just hold it on the injury until it stops hurting and bleeding.

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lellywest@reddit

Oh no, this is posh. In our house it was either straight hydrogen peroxide or the green rubbing alcohol that had camphor or something in it.

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ube1kenobi@reddit

didn't sting for me. i preferred it over alcohol on my cuts/scrapes. but when it was all done and my mom refused to buy it b/c alcohol was cheaper...well i got used to the pain from the alcohol. i welcomed it though whenever i was able to use it. also don't mind hydrogen peroxide bubbling up. iodine was just as bad as alcohol tho... (sorry rambling....)

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Dr_Parkinglot@reddit

"QUIT CRYING! IT DOESN'T STING, SEE?!"

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Elethuir@reddit

That container is a lie!! I have the childhood trauma to prove it lol

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Polkawillneverdie17@reddit

New Skin

I still have nightmares.

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ImTrying2UnderstandU@reddit

Are you possibly thinking of iodine? I’m pretty sure that vaccine has lidocaine in it which is a numbing agent.

Iodine though always makes me think of this: Mrs Glick gives Bart Iodine

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Tralin@reddit

This was in the cupboard but we had aloe vera planted outside and would crack that and use it first.