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whatcouchsaid@reddit

Ah, the first product that made me question the trustworthiness of marketing. No sting my ass…

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tragicsandwichblogs@reddit

"No sting, my ass" was my immediate reaction to the photo.

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ElDeguello66@reddit

No sting*

*If we're comparing it to Merthiolate that is

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Puzzleheaded-Lion153@reddit

Given the properties of the other first-aid products in the medicine cabinet, my two-year-old self was incredibly relieved to see a grownup bust this shit out.

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FesterSilently@reddit

Merthiolates, second cousin to Aristothenes.

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Leading-Summer-4724@reddit

Seriously I flinched at the photo lol

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Feisty-Tooth-7397@reddit

I could smell the photo.

Is it weird that I liked the burn and sting?

The smell bothered me more.

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Dubin0908@reddit

Ya beat me to it. They should have been sued multiple times over for false advertising. Lol

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

Uh that's not where you're supposed to put it.

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Pointedtoe@reddit

That was exactly my first thought too!

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Mercury5979@reddit

They are still trying to sell it that way too!

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Perle1234@reddit

Lmao they put some lidocaine in so it stings like shit then goes numb I guess 😂

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BongwaterJoe1983@reddit

1st warning on back is may cause temporary burning or stinging

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Perle1234@reddit

If I was gonna get some old school disinfectant I’d just get some mercurochrome lol

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Fun_Ride_1885@reddit

Monkey blood!! I forgot about that shit!

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Penne13@reddit

Max! My ass, the original 1970's version was hell on a skinned knee...Max!?

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melodic-abalone-69@reddit

Added this to our camper first aid this spring. Jesus Mary and Joseph I wanted to saw off my whole got dang leg after spraying this on a scrape!

No sting my ass!

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Jaque_LeCaque@reddit

Well, no sting when compared to the super concentrated sulfuric acid known as Mecurochrome.

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Connor51501@reddit

first thing i said to myself seeing this. No sting my ass!

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lovespring80@reddit

It was all sting and I’m not even sure it did anything.

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WinninRoam@reddit

It was better than the alternatives of iodine or Listerine.

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Arkhamina@reddit

Do you remember Mercurochrome? My godmother loved it. I think it was phased out in the late 80s. Nothing like painting mercury right on an open wound...

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Fun fact: you can still by mercuro-chrome, though the current formula is “mercury free”. It makes me think of gentian violet and silver iodide which were also widely used as antibacterial topicals and others which were ingested. I was at the Emergency room awhile back for a kidney infection and a woman in the next bed over had a cut on her foot and the doctor kept asking her why it was bright purple, turns out she had sprayed it with blu-kote… which is used as antibacterial in veterinary practices.

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NoGame212@reddit

When my daughter was little and quite the hellion on wheels (about 15 years ago now) I went looking for it and only found something called mercuro-clear. I was like wtf is this? I taught her to get up and just rub it instead. 😂. She grew up tougher than most kids in her class.

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

Omg my ex did this to a bad infection he got on his ankle. The infection moved up his whole leg, to the knee. And he kept using it. When he was finally convinced to go to the ER, he was admitted to the hospital for 2 weeks. They were barely able to save his leg. When I had a child with this man, I had to explain to him, it's fine by me if he wants to continue his caveman ways on himself, but NOT on my baby! We'll stick to modern medicine 🙄

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Loud_Cockroach_3344@reddit

Holy moly - my GPa had horses and a tack shop. I well remember watching him using this spray on horses where a fly might have bitten and caused a skin irritation. Hadn’t thought about that purple spray in a good while!

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kellzone@reddit

They were filling our teeth with it, so rubbing a little on the skin was light by comparison.

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Hondahobbit50@reddit

Still do!

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Healthy_You867@reddit

Omg. It never occurred to me that mercury was in it. I was very accident prone so this was applied weekly on my knees. Yikes!

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scott903@reddit

In my house we used what we called MonkeyBlood and really used it for one thing . To shut you the hell up . “ well if it’s that bad I’ll get the monkey blood ..”.

No … I’m good I’m good … I’m all better Mom . 😳

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RetrogrouchCargonaut@reddit

We called it monkey blood.

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whatcouchsaid@reddit

Yeah that shit was way worse

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BettyJoBielowski@reddit

Absolutely. I felt like royalty the once or twice that my mom sprung for Bactine. My parents both subscribed to the notion that nothing that feels good is good for you, and nothing that's good for you feels good.

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M4hkn0@reddit

It stung far less than the mercurochrome that was used when I was young.

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EddieIsNotMyRealName@reddit

walk it off ;)

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Grigori_the_Lemur@reddit

Didn't sting as much as mercurochrome as I recall. I was happy when a friend's mom put Bactine on a cut I got.

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SuitablyFakeUsername@reddit

Compared to the previous first aid antiseptic staples of mercurochrome and methiolate , Bactine was a god send. No joke.

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Frosty_Yesterday_674@reddit

This stuff was more sting than Gordon Sumner.

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North_Key80@reddit

Nice! Lol. Anyway, I always thought the sting was there so you could tell it was working. Otherwise, how would you know?

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caffeinebump@reddit

We still call it "the stingy stuff" in my house from when my kid was little and didn't know the proper name

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BuckyGoldman@reddit

Not a "sting" it just burns like the fires of hell.

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MotherofaPickle@reddit

Best thing for cat scratches, in my experience.

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IronBallsMcChing@reddit

I'm still using a bottle of Mercurochrome from the 60's.

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Petrostar@reddit

You guys got Bactine?

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Funny_Leg8273@reddit

This was for cuts. Butter was for burns. According to my Dad. SMH.

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jcostello50@reddit

And vinegar for sunburn.

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

And milk for sunburns, in the south. But it actually works 🤣

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Funny_Leg8273@reddit

I think my Dad did Vaseline for sunburn? (California)

Milk sounds better.

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

Haha! And probably a lot easier to get off 🤣

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

We put mustard on burns in the south 🤣

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Funny_Leg8273@reddit

Lol! With a slice of ham?

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rufireproof3d@reddit

Shit like this and "No more tears" shampoo is why GenXers have trust issues.

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itgoesineasy@reddit

Mercurochrome…… My dad’s favorite

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

Yes and to this day it's one of my favorite scents.

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goldenbearpilot@reddit

All the tattoo artists I've been to use this . The lidocaine helps make the tattoo less spicy!

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denverpilot@reddit

Wound care nurses and docs do not recommend it. Nor Neosporin. There are better options now. Many of these old remedies use ingredients that actually harm new tissue growth and healing.

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Tower816@reddit

I remember this but growing up my parents used Mercurochrome at first

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Rowen1561@reddit

I can smell that picture

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VerbalGuinea@reddit

We didn’t say no burn.

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Jmckeown2@reddit

Bactine is like a core of the GenX belief structure.

They will FUCKING LIE to you!!

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DoingItForMyKid@reddit

I bought it several times when my little guy had cancer. So many needles. Some hospitals use Zingo to numb the area before the needle. His chemo was at a Children’s hospital and they used Zingo. Worked like a charm. His surgery to remove the tumor was at a teaching hospital. No Zingo. The nurses from Children’s found out and gave me a stash. But the teaching hospital kept throwing it away. Finally found someone in the teaching hospital who “prescribed” Bactine (at $90 a bottle)….yep next shift came in and threw it away. Went to Walgreens and bought a bottle for $4.99 and kept it in my bag.

TLDR Bactine works great for needle pokes, especially for little ones with tender skin

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Teejay91b@reddit

We didn’t get Bactine. I spent a good bit of my childhood with pink or purple polka dots.

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Trees_are_cool_@reddit

How could they get away with such an egregious lie? It should say "stings like hell".

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Msfracture@reddit

I still use it, works, never felt this sting ya'lls mention.. maybe i'm just tougher hahahaa

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Workerchimp68@reddit

Neosporin pretty much replaced it

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M23707@reddit

I still spray it on any scrape or cut. And, I tell my kids … this will sting!

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Diggitydave76@reddit

gif

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Potential-Amoeba1902@reddit

Only in Star Wars ("Put him in the Bacta Tank!")

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cmt38@reddit

I have some in my bathroom right now.

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johnonymous1973@reddit

Yes. I use it to clean wounds and for aromatherapy.

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asyouwish@reddit

I still keep it on hand.

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mykidsthinkimcool@reddit

I kept bactine on hand (in boat/car) when I lived in Hawaii.

Coral can be sharp and can have bacteria.

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Medium-Mission5072@reddit

I got iodine or rubbing alcohol depending on who's house I was at because "if it stings that means it's working".

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SaltyBlackBroad@reddit

Yea, that was us. Iodine, Monkey Blood, peroxide, and medicated vaseline. Bactine was for the rich kids.

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KLLR_ROBOT@reddit

Holy crap, I haven’t heard the term Monkey Blood in forever!

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SaltyBlackBroad@reddit

Didn't the old bottles have a little monkey on it? I'm trying to remember, but the late 70s and 80s were a blur.

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KLLR_ROBOT@reddit

I don’t remember a monkey on the bottle but I did a search and this photo struck a memory chord for me

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SaltyBlackBroad@reddit

Yea, I guess it's one of those false memories or someone drew out a monkey at some time in my youth and it just stuck.

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BettyJoBielowski@reddit

Bactine was for the rich kids.

100% this. I felt like royalty the couple of times my mom sprung for Bactine instead of that weirdly fluorescent hurts like hell mercurochrome. The people on this thread whining about Bactine would failure to thrive where I come from.

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SaltyBlackBroad@reddit

I think we had Bactine maybe once, and I remember how much my mom bitched about how expensive it was and that we ran through it too fast. So it must have been one of those "ok everyone's buying it let's try it, then shit it's too expensive and the .65 cent bottle of peroxide became our Bactine. I mean, we were lucky to get a Band-Aid. "It needs to dry out! You don't need one!" Cause we didn't have those either, sometimes some gauze and that white medical tape that stuck to nearly nothing. So we just went back outside with our battle scars and nursed it like we'd been in a fight for our lives.

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4estGimp@reddit

My dad once poured the god tier product into a cut of mine - Listerine. NOTHING could sting more.

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Fishy1911@reddit

When i was a painter we used straight shellac to cleanse and seal cuts. This was pre learning about superglue.

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Abject-Technician558@reddit

Anbesol. Stings more than the fires of hell, while vaguely numbing.

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dixiech1ck@reddit

My mom still had a bottle of Mercurochrome (sp?) in the medicine closet from 1982. And she used it... I asked her to please discard it but she argued it doesn't go bad. No but it's not sold now for a reason!

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Ok-Law7641@reddit

The stain lasts longer than the wound.

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Lvrgsp@reddit

Yep.....That stuff brings back memories....That and the iodine with the dropper

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KurtStation68@reddit

As a physical therapist once said, pain is just hurt leaving the body 😆

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CuriousRiver2558@reddit

My drill instructor said (yelled) “Pain is just weakness leaving the body!”

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SaltyBlackBroad@reddit

Oh your soul.

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ophymirage@reddit

Oh my god are you my dad? because that's what he said every single time. (and it was always rubbing alcohol. ALWAYS.)

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Conscious-Guest-8342@reddit

I fell and took a large portion of the skin off my leg at the pool one day and this is what they had. I just remember screaming while my teenaged sister tried to hold me stil. It hurt worse than the fall!

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PinSevere7887@reddit

I still use it ! I love the smell of it.

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BuffaloGwar1@reddit

Ya, stuff works good. I have been using it my entire life. Not only for cuts but it works great on rashes too if you ever have a bad one.

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PinSevere7887@reddit

Reminds me of the Chris Rock sketch about the Robitussin, except it’s Bactine for me lol

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jawnly211@reddit

That bottle in the original post with expiration date 3/1988 is still in use at my house!!!!

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sunrayevening@reddit

I love it too! I think it stings a little at first and then lessens the pain of the injury

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MienaLovesCats@reddit

Me too

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VegetableRound2819@reddit

Great, now I’m gonna go sniffing the Bactine at the local drugstore.

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DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA@reddit

Yaaas

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root_fifth_octave@reddit

They should do a scented candle.

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upstatestruggler@reddit

ME TOO. You wouldn’t think that something associated with a million injuries in my life would be so appealing but I absolutely adore it!

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Thin-Ganache-363@reddit

I think it's current value is a sort of aroma therapy. I have it my first aid supplies because one thing it does reliably is provide the smell of healing, and I find that comforting.

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Desperate_Gur_3094@reddit

gentian violet. ugh i remember that shit. if you had a sore in your mouth. get some purple medicine.

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LayerNo3634@reddit

My parents would never buy Bactine. Dad thought "monkey blood" would cure anything.

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TraditionalBasis4518@reddit

Bactine’s active ingredient is benzalkonium chloride, a quaternary ammonium salt that enjoyed a brief popularity in hospital use fifty years ago. It was aqueous, not poisonous, and did a pretty good job for general and wound disinfection under the brand name zephiran. Eventually it was discovered that it was less effective against mold, and it went out of fashion. Still in use as an alternative to chlorine for swimming pool use.

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Throwaway-ish123a@reddit

I don't know but that one old bottle will last me three lifetimes.

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Bug_Calm@reddit

stares in trauma

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Western_Durian_6728@reddit

I can smell and feel this picture.

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thisoldguy74@reddit

I had a barb wired fence accident when I was 5. 100 band aids and a bottle of Bactine later I was patched up.

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pocketdare@reddit

No Sting?

LIES !!!!!

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Alewort@reddit

S'truth, you honor, it doth not sting, 'tis a full on puncture.

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ynfive@reddit

Its the best sting, the sting to end all stings.

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Advanced_Tax174@reddit

Stung so much it must have been working!

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Visible-Guess9006@reddit

https://i.redd.it/qgzm4lwbwaif1.gif

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joyful115_@reddit

Yes I bought some for a bad sunburn I got on vacation

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wannareadrandomstuff@reddit

I only use it on my kids when I want to teach them a lesson. Like falling when running is not a good enough lesson!

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boner79@reddit

I put that shit on everything.

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OddInformation14@reddit

It was like spraying rubbing alcohol on an open wound!🤢

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Tamases@reddit

I've got two bottles in my backpack right now just in case the kids scrape/fall or otherwise need quick disinfectant. Yea. It stings for a bit.

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lifeat24fps@reddit

I think my tattoo artist sprays it on me when I get cranky.

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Mr_Stike@reddit

I had actually forgotten about Bactine until recently getting tattooed.

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DenverNuggetz@reddit

Yup, the original numbing spray

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GrizSkillful@reddit

It beat the hell out of mercurochrome!!!

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DerBingle78@reddit

I hope not.

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PiratesTale@reddit

Wow this has some memories attached to it, just seeing the image I can feel the cold sting and smell it!

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Fun-Potential-342@reddit

We still use this.

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zoltarpanaflex@reddit

I use Bactine it works

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DocDerry@reddit

Tattoo shops still use it.

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Dominimensch@reddit

Parent went straight for the 90% alcohol with no chaser

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nerd44@reddit

I cried harder when I saw this shit getting pulled out.

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dyoll26@reddit

Just looking at this burns

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Hecallzmemadpants@reddit

I love bactine! I have multiple bottles for cuts and scrapes- the smell is still the same- amazing. My favorite 1st aid product!!

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Plastic_Cat9560@reddit

I feel this picture. Where 80s kids learned not to trust labels.

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paddyOfurniture5309@reddit

Just used some this morning!!!

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ASBONumpy@reddit

Yeah, all the time on tattoos....🙄🙄🙄

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ProBuyer810-3345045@reddit

The Bactine company should’ve had their ass sued for false advertising about that ‘no sting’ promise they made!!

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Orphanbitchrat@reddit

Along with those ‘No More Tears’ bitches

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

Haha! I can just feel the burn, thinking of this 🫣

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Bacontoad@reddit

https://i.redd.it/sa4sed00bbif1.gif

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Global-Rush9202@reddit

I thought they stop making it decades ago. I have not seen it in a long time. I just searched and it's still for sale out there. I guess I don't pay attention anymore. Sucks to get old.

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Designer_Squirrel_26@reddit

It’s often used in piercings, I think. I remember using it in my piercings, but I just remembered that I haven’t had them for years…

So this comment is useless. Thanks for playing!

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rikerismycopilot@reddit

I used it on mine as well. My piercer said I should just do sea salt soaks, so I tried that, but after a week I knew infection was coming so I got out the Bactine. It cleared everything right up and I healed like a champ!

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

I had an infected belly button piercing one time. Nothing worked. Until a friend told me to get a bar of Gold Dial. Cleared up the infection in 2 days. Now we always have at least 1-2 bars on standby.

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EruditeKetchup@reddit

I got a navel piercing in 1994. The piercer told me to wash with Betadine daily. He gave me the piercing in the dressing room of a clothing store that no longer exists. At least he also had an autoclave in the back of the store. I went with a group of college friends, and we all got infections except for the girl who got a tongue piercing. It kept getting infected so I had it removed a year later, at an actual piercing shop, by an actual licensed piercer. Maybe we should have used Bactine instead.

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MaximumJones@reddit

You can buy it on Amazon right now

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

Midwest here. Our local grocery store still carries it. Just bought a bottle yesterday!

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Shoots_Ainokea@reddit

You can buy it at Walmart, or CVS (for 3X the price haha) etc it's not hard to obtain.

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podo7599@reddit

I’ll join the rest No Sting My Ass

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NotARobotDefACyborg@reddit

I have some in my medicine cabinet right now! Great for skeeter bites.

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purplotter@reddit

Still used heavily by Tattooers.

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Ok-Entertainment5045@reddit

I felt this picture

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Impossible_Past5358@reddit

sucks air through closed teeth

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Impossible_Past5358@reddit

sucks air through closed teeth

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melbo15@reddit

Out of the cobwebby recesses of my brain arose the jingle when I saw your picture: “Bactine for infection protection!” 🎶

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SheilaMichele1971@reddit

It stung but worked!

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goteed@reddit

I can smell this picture!!

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No-Day-5964@reddit

Yes! And it still burns like acid.

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Billz3bub666@reddit

What about the red shit they used to slather on scrapes?

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Planoniceguy@reddit

No sting my ass! Might as well put merthiolate, which today is called mercurochrome, on it. No sting, now that’s funny.

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imnottheoneipromise@reddit

I always used this stuff on new piercings. Worked amazingly well. I’ve had lots of body piercings throughout my life and as long as I used this I had no issues.

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MaleficentMousse7473@reddit

I use it for tattoo aftercare

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ShinyWolverine@reddit

Bactine was a staple in our 80's household!

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Neosporin.

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CuriousRiver2558@reddit

Yes, but growing up we were a Lanacane family. I’d cry even harder when my dad pulled that bottle out to clean my “ouchies”. That stuff worked great on burns though.

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yodamastertampa@reddit

Always. Its antibacterial and has lidocaine. Cuts scrapes etc its perfect for those. I had an ingrown toenail and used it for that. You can spray it on something to clean and anaesthetise it and then do some minor surgery like cutting back a toenail.

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redbeard914@reddit

The lucky kid got bactene. I got mercurachrome or methiolate.

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Felon_musk1939@reddit

We were a Solarcaine house.

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melodyomania@reddit

I still use it. When I have an itchy mosquito bite the max kind actually kills the itch.

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Fantastic-Welder-322@reddit

Last time I used it was 1995

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Moar_Donuts@reddit

Bought some yesterday.

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fromamomof2@reddit

Yep, just went to use it and its all out. Need to restock!

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Odd-Spell-2699@reddit

The "No Sting " promise was how at our young age, we learned not to trust the world. That stuff stung like hell

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MienaLovesCats@reddit

Yes; in a spray bottle; we have a few in our home and vehicle

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JoeHawk421@reddit

“No Sting means me, it doesn’t sting me, now get your ass over here.” -Mom

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Bitter-Ad-6709@reddit

I have 2 extra strength bottles in my vanity right now. Use it all the time. Love it!

It does not sting, you pμssies!

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Pristine_Main_1224@reddit

Bactine was so much nicer than hydrogen peroxide, and I liked the scent. I could smell it as soon as I saw the picture.

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Disastrous-Mousse837@reddit

I can feel this photo

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efcso1@reddit

I remember a time when they released a genuine no-sting Dettol here (AU) and it flopped. Nobody used it because, apparently, they associated the sting with it working properly and being more effective. My mum had a bottle of it and only ever used it a few times before she chucked it out.

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Shoots_Ainokea@reddit

Not many of us Yanks know about Dettol, it's basically a good soap for cleaning scrapes etc., Zuka African Foods on Junction Avenue has it.

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Shoots_Ainokea@reddit

That was the rich kids' parents. Us, ignore it, let the dog lick it, whatevers. That being said, I keep some around now, it's handy stuff.

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Happy_Blackbird@reddit

I use it all the time when I need to lidocaine the shit out of something. It’s my go to numbing agent.

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Open_Mortgage_4645@reddit

Yup

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dragonfliesloveme@reddit

I gotta get me some. It’s going on the list!

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LariRed@reddit

I still remember the smell.

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just_a_duderino@reddit

Coming from a Merthiolate household, pls.

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Munk45@reddit

LIARS

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Cajunmamma@reddit

The devil IS a lie! No sting.

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TimeLine_DR_Dev@reddit

The sting means it working

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Sheerluck42@reddit

I switched to A&D cream. It may smell like old people but it works and actually doesn't sting.

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Simple-Purpose-899@reddit

Best Bactine scene ever.

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hangingfiredotnet@reddit

I keep a bottle in my medicine cabinet and it does get used. Even if "no sting" is a deadass lie.

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Juraki@reddit

Only during interrogations.

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linkerjpatrick@reddit

They also use it in a galaxy far far away

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Wactout@reddit

We use it in the tattoo industry a lot. I don’t. I’m a jerk.

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oneeyedalienalright@reddit

My husband’s go-to still. They even have a “second skin” product.

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yukibunny@reddit

I still use bactine. And it's sting tells me it's working. I told that to a neighbor kid who got a big scrap on her knee the other day, it's going to hurt for like two seconds then it will feel a little better. But the hurt is how you know it's getting cleaned. She made me smile when she said, "It's like a shot, it hurts a little but it keeps you from getting sick; that hurts a whole lot more! "

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Pressman4life@reddit

All the Bactine "No sting, my ass" people missed the Merthiolate era.
Yes, Benzalkonium chloride (Bactine) is still widely used today.

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kdubs415@reddit

About 8 years ago I had an injury that required lots of stitches. I asked my Dr if I could use bactine to clean it myself and he said he’d never heard of the stuff. I tried to explain what it was and he just said - no don’t use that.

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No-Consequence9392@reddit

I would take it all day vs Mecurichrome and Satan's glass applicator rod

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CharmingDagger@reddit

Yes, I still use this. Usually as a disinfectant before the Neosporin and band-aid come out. Yes, it still stings.

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jtrades69@reddit

internet says yes. google gives me conflicting results whether it contains bacitracin or not

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moodbeast@reddit

I loved the smell.

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Bright_Earth_8282@reddit

They still sell it and we still use it. It’s great to use on kids since you can’t use Neosporin until they reach a certain age.

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Extreme_Barracuda658@reddit

No sting my ass!

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Czarguy2@reddit

Never heard of it

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Troutmandoo@reddit

I use it for tattoo aftercare. The lidocaine Bactine works great. Wash gently with antibacterial soap. A thin layer of Tattoo Goo, a spray of Bactine. Good to go. No infections, nice clean healing, no scabs, scars, nothing. It just heals right up. My skin is 55 years old. It needs all the help it can get.

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CqwyxzKpr@reddit

Mercurochrome comes to mind as well

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kalitarios@reddit

Anyone remember the jingle from the early 80s?

Pssst goes the Bactine
Pssst goes the Bactine
Down go the mean old germs

Had to blow 2” of dust off that memory

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Any_Zookeepergame408@reddit

I was in the hospital for a related compound ankle fracture and was repeatedly asked if I wanted "bacitraction" for my knee abrasion. I declined as I genuinely worried that it would be worse than the pain from reduction and surgery.

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HedgehogOdd1603@reddit

I can smell this post…

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Sensitive_Note1139@reddit

We still keep it in the house. It actually helped my husband when he had shingles. He sprayed the flaking skin with it, and it kept the sharp edges under control. Good thing too, because his job wouldn't let him take time off for it.

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Funny_Leg8273@reddit

I got shingles after foot surgery, so I was looped on pain pills. That seemed to help too! But the weeks of gooey, bubbling rash, and then itching? Gah! I did a thin cloth, with an ice pack.

Can't believe your husband had to work with that. Ugh. So sorry.

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