Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 14, 2023

Mercurochrome, too. And that’s not counting the hot tar-stick drops for deep splinters.

Generous splash of hydrogen peroxide from Mom on my heel at ten. All summer barefoot but in Sept of that year I stepped on a jaggedbroken bone behind the neighbor’s barn.

A mother’s love goes far – but what if the kiddo sits on a bank of rough wood and gets a splinter in his…yaknowwhat?

Happy Mother’s Day !

Not a mom but a plant nurse – My dad got a cut at work that he took to the nurse for treatment. She painted it and, since it stung, Dad blew on it. She grabbed his hand and applied more since he blew germs into the cut. Blowing was decided counterproductive that time.

I still have a bottle of that in the cabinet……….

Mercurochrome was cool, but Bactine was safer.

I’m so old we (my Mom) kept a bottle of iodine in the medicine cabinet. Made us leery of getting small injuries.

I remember the Mercurochrome in the bottle with the glass rod applicator. The Merthiolate came in little heavy paper tubes and you had to crush the glass ampule inside and let the Merthiolate saturate the gauze tip before applying. Both stung like heck! Both applicators would be deemed a safety hazard today

How about “If your mother used a cloth with her spit on it to wash your face?”

I miss the old formulation Merthiolate, some anyway. Dad used to call it monkey blood and it burned like the dickens on a cut. And when mother would put it on a cut, she’d blow on it. But, it contained mercury and people were getting sick, so it was reformulated and the mercury removed.

Mercurochrome — that’s what we used growing up — disinfecting with mercury — no wondering I’ve lost all my hair.

…not that it actually helped, mind you… :P :P :P

You’re an old Plugger if you can remember getting your cuts swabbed with Iodine.

I’m too old to remember anything like that.

There was alcohol in the solution, which would make it sting, but blowing on it had a cooling effect, which eased the pain.

Merthiolate – is that iodine? My mother never blew on any of my cuts.

Your a Plugger if your mother licked her hankie and then wiped some dirt off of your face.

Ahhh yes, that “red sting-y stuff”…I don’t remember anyone ever blowing on it; we always got a Band-Aid right away!

When I was a kid my Mom spreayed Bactine on cuts and scatches.

Mercurochrome…. in the glass bottle with the rubber cap/ glass applicator, like this one. Didn’t sting as much as Merthiolate.

That disinfectant sure stings.

I don’t how good Merthiolate was at “fixing” a wound, but it burned so much you forgot how much the wound hurt.

How about iodine?

Wow, I remember that!

IODINE REALLY BURNED TOO. GATHERED ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO BLOW ON THE SCRAPE DURING RECESS IN 2ND GRADE.