AIBU to say that Sudocrem contains magic powers - pics included!

[bbcessex]

My family think I must have shares in Sudocrem because i recommend it for almost any ailment 😁😁

Latest proof: friction burn from dog lead walking accident (don’t ask)... medics recommended keep clean, loose dressing, leave it to heal naturally.. 1 week later, no better.

3 days of Sudocrem - virtually fixed, almost expect new foot to grow shortly !

who will join me in the Ode to Sudocrem - or even recommend new potions with magical powers that I can add to my list?

It’s the lavender. It’s so good I decided to drink some........

Not the sudocreme but Gin with lavender it was yum and I am hoping for similar miraculous healing and possibly thinning powers to work while I sleep.

I also swear by Sudocrem for many skin things but have discovered that Calendula cream also has magic properties.

If you put some on at bedtime on eg a small cut, or one of those cracks you can get at the sides of fingertips, with a plaster on top, it will be almost healed by morning

My mum hates the stuff, refuses to have it in her house after I found a tub of it as a baby and smeared it EVERYWHERE. Even now she won't use it if she's at my house ad changing a nappy - she'll use another cream instead.

I've told her not to blame the cream for me being an asshole child.

Much as I love Sudocrem I agree it's not the best for nappy rash. Drapolene was amazing for that.

Our Vet recommends it for any small wounds our cat gets.
Much better than anything else we've had to use for him.

My 'go to' has been homeopathic Hypercal ointment (hypericum, St John's Wort, & calendula, marigold), but I can only get hold of the ointment by mail order now, so if Sudocreme works, that will be so much easier, so thanks, OP!
Hypercal was the best thing for cuts & grazes, etc, but especially cat scratches, when I had a neurotic rescue cat who used to lash out unexpectedly. Ointment and a plaster (for me) would sort it by the next day, but also worked on the cats when they got into fights. I'd apply the ointment, and hold them for about 10 minutes, to stop them licking it off right away.
Also worked on the neurotic black & white cat's acne (didn't know this existed before). He'd get black spots, red raw skin, and the fur on his face would get rubbed off. He'd lash out at the vets, and needed an injection and tablets, which he'd spit out. So I eventually found that crushed homeopathic sulphur tablets in his food, followed by the ointment worked a treat, and saved the poor vet from being mauled!
Wish I'd known about Sudacreme then. Cat scratches can get infected so quickly.

Love Sudocreme! I always have a tub on the go at home and a tube in my work 1st Aid box. Eight hour cream, Sudocreme and Arnica are my staples! Arnica for bruising, Sudocreme for nearly all skin ailments and Eight hour cream on dry skin - it's my face rescue cream for when wind or aggressive air con/heat have trashed my face or if I've cried. Tears burn my skin horribly.

I am a mosquito magnet though and don't find germolene works on my itch at all.

My itchy Alpaca Edmund has his own tub (on the vet’s recommendation). He doesylije to be touched though, so Otha challenge getting it on him. And he’s black, so looks a bit of a state if I do manage to!

When my children were little I couldn't deal with anything that hurt them, I was useless. Ex came running in with our then six-year-old, he'd taken her for a rise on back of his bike and her foot got caught in the spokes, ripped all the surface off the tip of her foot. I panicked, scooped out a huge handful of sudocrem and slathered it all over the wound.

Next day her foot was all swollen, took her to a&e for xrays. No bones broken. Nurse started to pick off the sudocrem, which had turned into a shell, child started crying, I grabbed her and ran. Not proud of being such a wimp. Over the next few weeks the shell gradually cracked and fell off, revealing perfect pink skin beneath.

She's an adult now, with not a trace of a scar from what was a very deep wound.

A ride on his bike, and TOP of her foot. Damn autocorrect 🙄

Great for spots and stings. Always have some around. That and TCP.

I do miss the old germolene though-before it has all the good ingredients removed!! I can still smell it now...!

SweetMarmalade - thank you - I am far more careful now to not be looped in lead when I throw a ball!!

HelloWorld.. OMG OMG - Sudocrem for TOOTHACHE? It really is a miracle!

However when it comes to sorting out sore nose/upper lip skin when you've a streaming cold, bepanthen is where it's at. It has no rival.

I recommend a lip salve, rub it round your nose (and lip) every time you blow and you don’t get the sore red Rudolph look.

@bbcessex thank you!! Inspired by this thread, I bought some sudocrem today for my dog. She had a litter of pups and is currently feeding them - this she has large teats on her usually concave belly. Poor dog forgot this as she ran through a barbed wire fence and ripped a nipple pretty badly resulting in an emergency run to the vet who stapled it. Owing to the pups’ suckling some of the staples have come out leaving a raw, open gash to which I applied some MAGIC sudocrem! And, huzzah, it is already healing after a few hours plus the pups don’t like the taste and left the nipple well alone. Result! Thank you OP 😊

I have really bad case of adult hormonal acne, but a cocktail of sudocrem + e45 is able to clear it overnight. Have industrial sized tubs of both. I even stockpiled it for Brexit.

i use it on ds (23) and dh (58).

I might try it on the cats after this thread.

@Fraxion Try superglue. Sounds crazy I know! My husband gets awful cracked painful hands every winter. He's tried everything, including sudocreme and lansinoh etc. Supergluing the cracks closed has been the only thing that's reduced the pain.

Thanks @MilfordFound! This is just a recent thing with my husband over the last couple of winters. My daughter had a couple of head wounds superglued (at hospital) when she was younger, worked a treat.

@Fraxion and @MilfordFound My ex-h suffered dreadfully with split fingers and the best product for that is O'Keefes Working Hands. Miracle cream! Lovely on dry feet too.

I love it! Gets rid of spots so quickly 😊

The glue they use in hospital isn't the same as superglue though.

My marriage was on the rocks and just a smear of sudocrem every night for a week soon had us back on track

Sorry haven’t rtft, too long. Where did you smear sudocrem?

Dp and I tried it some time ago for the same thing. It took a bit longer to work for us but I think we had complications.

Did it not sting?