Any good chafing treatments?

[nfotiu]

As an avid runner/golfer in a hot, humid climate, I've come up with pretty good solutions for preventing chafing. However, most of these require some forethought and realization that the activity is going to be a chafe inducing activity.

Some days like today it just kind of sneaks up on me. Playing with kids and doing ad hoc yard work for 10 hours on the first 80 degree day of the year.

Anyway, I got a pretty bad case in an area that will make walking 18 holes tomorrow morning excruciating. Any suggestions on things I can do between now and then to help treat the chafe?

[flip]

This happened to a "friend" of mine once.

Just like a rash, keep the area cool and moist. If it is quite painful you can use Hydrocortisone cream like Cortate, or you can use baby diaper rash stuff like Zinc ointment.

These aren't really quick solutions per se but should help and will take a few days to feel better.

[edn88]

I have used aloe vera (I had some cream from Acca Kappa I had to buy in Vegas when it was 100+ degrees and I was walking all day - the heat from the sidewalk was nasty).

[Rathji]

Zinc Oxide is like the nectar of the Gods.

Works for baby and will work for you.

[Hack&Lube]

Try applying these with a vigourous rub-down

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by flip

This happened to a "friend" of mine once.

Just like a rash, keep the area cool and moist. If it is quite painful you can use Hydrocortisone cream like Cortate, or you can use baby diaper rash stuff like Zinc ointment.

These aren't really quick solutions per se but should help and will take a few days to feel better.

Thanks, I like the diaper rash suggestion. Having 2 kids under 3, I got plenty of that around. I think I'll give the Baudreaux's Butt Paste a try. Seems to be the preferred treatment for the younger one! He always seems to look a lot better the next morning.

[MRCboicgy]

Gold Bond is always nice--it keeps me dry while bumping and grinding in hot clubs, plus it's minty fresh.

My secret for the summer is to wear bamboo underwear. One guy I had a short fling with recommended wearing then on hot days, so I bought a few pairs and only wear them in the summer--he was so right. For whatever reason, in the cold, you freeze your boys off in them.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

Gold Bond is always nice--it keeps me dry while bumping and grinding in hot clubs, plus it's minty fresh.

My secret for the summer is to wear bamboo underwear. One guy I had a short fling with recommended wearing then on hot days, so I bought a few pairs and only wear them in the summer--he was so right. For whatever reason, in the cold, you freeze your boys off in them.

Mods, please delete post.

[flip]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

Gold Bond is always nice--it keeps me dry while bumping and grinding in hot clubs, plus it's minty fresh.

My secret for the summer is to wear bamboo underwear. One guy I had a short fling with recommended wearing then on hot days, so I bought a few pairs and only wear them in the summer--he was so right. For whatever reason, in the cold, you freeze your boys off in them.

Like these?

http://www.topdrawers.com/bamboo-mens-underwear.html

[Eric Vail]

I've done a ton of cycling and have found Bag Balm to be the best of anything. It takes sore chaffing legs and fixes them overnight. I still apply it in the morning, but I no longer have any pain. If you don't have any Bag Balm, vaseline helps, but not to the same degree. You can get Bag Balm at animal supply stores. It's original purpose is to sooth cow's teets when they get sore. Now Shanai Twain uses it for her skin, and cyclists (and others I presume) for their chaffing skin.

[jammies]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

My secret for the summer is to wear bamboo underwear.

I'm glad Dion put in a link 'cause I seriously thought you actually wore underwear made out of bamboo... maybe with a nice bark t-shirt, bramble pants and some log shoes.

[Five-hole]

Bamboo cotton is the shiz.

[burnin_vernon]

I walk 3-4 hours a day and have had some nasty ones. Vaseline works great but it is a little greasy. I've heard Body Glide is really good; the Running Room sells it. I haven't had luck with Gold Bond preventing chaffing, but it sure feels good to sooth the pain.

[flip]

Originally Posted by jammies

I'm glad Dion put in a link 'cause I seriously thought you actually wore underwear made out of bamboo... maybe with a nice bark t-shirt, bramble pants and some log shoes.

First of all I'm flip, not Dion.

Second of all I posted the link as a semi joke, because like you I though of litterally bamboo underwear, then when I googled it noticed that the site I linked is highly uhhh gay looking which fit in well with MRCboicgy's post about picking up guys wearing bamboo underwear.

[NuclearFart]

Originally Posted by burnin_vernon

I walk 3-4 hours a day and have had some nasty ones. Vaseline works great but it is a little greasy. I've heard Body Glide is really good; the Running Room sells it. I haven't had luck with Gold Bond preventing chaffing, but it sure feels good to sooth the pain.

Yeah my girlfriend has been using that body glide on the twins while training for a marathon, and with great success. Vaseline is greasy and breaks down too quickly, wouldnt recommend it. Despite a pharmacist telling her it's the same, it is clearly not.

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by flip

Like these?

http://www.topdrawers.com/bamboo-mens-underwear.html

yah, I decided not to post a link to CIN2 cause i figured no one wanted to see a guys' bulging-ness. I like the long boxerbriefs.



also apologies for the graphic description of how I came to know bamboo underwear...blame wine. But 2 summers have proven him right.