Tinea Cruris - crutch rot

[Champagne Murphy]

is it any worse than a few pages about "my favourite blocked bog anecdote"

one day young man, should you be lucky enough to spend too much time sailing small boats in damp places the sharing in this thread might be very useful to you



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After many years of rugby I'm very familiar with athletes balls. I've never looked at lunchtime though! Just my luck that's when I checked the forum.

PS Lamisil (terbinafine) is good but not as funny as gentian violet

 

[Birdseye]

Yup. Works amazingly fast, too - the soreness goes within a day or two and the last traces are gone within a week.

Maybe but it doesnt work anything like that fast on foot rot - athletes foot as it is laughingly called and which I keep catching. Some athlete!

 

[johnalison]

Maybe but it doesnt work anything like that fast on foot rot - athletes foot as it is laughingly called and which I keep catching. Some athlete!

That's why I suggested Lamisil.

 

[double_ender]

Does this have any relation to the Dhobie's Itch that Old Harry and JDS have often referred to?

 

[Vara]

Not helped by wearing unsuitable legwear, bin the jeans and mole skins, and buy some Rohan's or regattas, see other post.

 

[SAMYL]

Indeed TC is rather contagious hence every term at my venerable boarding school started with the dreaded TC inspection. Trousers down, shirt tails up, swing tackle left, swing tackle right. If the doc spotted any rashes it was off to the san and the not-so-delicate hands of senior matron.
These days I just keep a tube of mycil ointment on board the boat, which quickly clears any dodgy funghi.

Sadly Mycil is no longer available, Lamisil has taken over.

 

[Resolution]

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PS Lamisil (terbinafine) is good but not as funny as gentian violet

I haven't heard mention of gentian violet for fifty years! This was, I am told, what school matron used to paint on the parts of boys who had been unwise enough to come back to school with a rash. History records that she did this with one hand, whilst holding in the other a large spoon, ready to deal with any early misplaced erections..........

 

[Salty John]

Excellent. I've gone from Knee Replacements to Fat Ar5es to Galloping Knobrot in 3 threads...I remember when this was all about boats

Knees support the deck on wooden boats and need replacement from time to time, fat ar5es are found on most modern AWBs and rot in your boom crutch can be dangerous. All titles about boats, just a bit of thread drift thereafter.

 

[Ripster]

Having a family full of women, SWMBO, 2 daughters (one is a nurse), 2 grandaughters, we always have a canestan "anti-thrush" kit around which includes the cream, so I am well covered "so to speak" if I get galloping crutch rot. As I do occasionaly suffer a bit of Ath's Ft now and again I better keep a closer watch around the crown jewels from now on.

 

[mjcoon]

Having a family full of women, SWMBO, 2 daughters (one is a nurse), 2 grandaughters, we always have a canestan "anti-thrush" kit around which includes the cream, so I am well covered "so to speak" if I get galloping crutch rot. As I do occasionaly suffer a bit of Ath's Ft now and again I better keep a closer watch around the crown jewels from now on.

And best not to sit in the Lotus position?

Mike.

 

[dylanwinter]

Having a family full of women, SWMBO, 2 daughters (one is a nurse), 2 grandaughters, we always have a canestan "anti-thrush" kit around which includes the cream, so I am well covered "so to speak" if I get galloping crutch rot. As I do occasionaly suffer a bit of Ath's Ft now and again I better keep a closer watch around the crown jewels from now on.

I am very pleased to have discovered that I had it

I was out on the bike thinking.... blimey.... this is uncomfortable ..... must be the prostate giving me gyp.. must be my age.... time to see the quack with the big finger

fortunately the nice person in the pharmacy sorted me out with nothing more complicated than a tube of cream

D

 

[Ripster]

time to see the quack with the big finger

Now - there speaks a man who has been there and done that. Why does it feel like its a whole arm and not just his/her finger?

 

[mjcoon]

Now - there speaks a man who has been there and done that. Why does it feel like its a whole arm and not just his/her finger?

Well, at least my doctor doesn't put on those arm-length gauntlets that vets use on cows!

A comedian on the radio referred to being given the "thumbs up"...

Mike.

 

[skyflyer]

one thing that nobody has mentioned is the need to keep applying the cream for some time after the symptoms have disappeared to really kill it off, otherwise it just comes back a short while later

 

[snowleopard]

this stuff seems to kill it with diligent three times a day application

http://www.canesten.com/en/sweat-rash/what-are-the-symptoms/index.php

It works as long as you persist for at least 2 weeks, preferably 4.

We used to get regular epidemics at boarding school because of gits who would borrow other people's towels if their own wasn't dry. Beware of any communal shower facilities! One of the best arguments for bigger boats is not having to brave the showers on the quay.

 

[Resolution]

This thread has now gone the rounds of my non-sailing classmates of hundreds of years ago, with many ribald email comments. It is amazing how many now confess to have been put through the GV treatment!

 

[dylanwinter]

It works as long as you persist for at least 2 weeks, preferably 4.

We used to get regular epidemics at boarding school because of gits who would borrow other people's towels if their own wasn't dry. Beware of any communal shower facilities! One of the best arguments for bigger boats is not having to brave the showers on the quay.

strange that I never encountered it at boarding school - foot rot was rampant but not sure it ever climbed northwards

while on the subject - when doing the Oregon trail on horseback I got a bad case of chiggers

this is an example

this is chiggers on a foot

mine decided that they wanted to climb northwards until they found a location more to their taste

I was riding horses for ten hours a day at the time so it was torture

 

[Resolution]

Definitely a case when tight underpants win out!

 

[snowleopard]

Be thankful the treatment has improved since the 1960s. Whitfield's Ointment must have been compounded from chillies, horseradish and mustard. A blowtorch would have been preferable.

 

[Leighb]

Be thankful the treatment has improved since the 1960s. Whitfield's Ointment must have been compounded from chillies, horseradish and mustard. A blowtorch would have been preferable.

But it frightened the heck out of the fungi.