antiseptics

[Patf]

I have a feeling I've asked this before but can't remember! What antiseptics do you folks use in France? In UK I used TCP or surgical spirit. Here it seems to be Eosine or nothing. We also have an iodine-based product left over from husbands leg operation. I have a problem that I have very thin skin on my legs and am forever scraping them. The wound easily goes septic. Pat.

[Teamedup]

Over the years I have ended up bringing back savlon cream or even germolene with me. You are right, eosine or mercurocome(sp) seem to be the major things. I also use idodine wash followed with iodine sometimes if I have none of the cream I have brought back left.

[opas]

I always buy a couple of tubes of germaline(or supermarket own) along with asprin on trips to uk, that stuff that the mothers tend to cover our youngest with looks a right mess(she is always tripping/falling)

Mrs O

[Flora]

Hello,

you can buy something very similar to TCP in any pharmacie here. It can be used in just the same way and is called SYNTHOL.

Also you can get Cetavlon which is much the same as Savlon cream and something else called Homeoplasmene ( I think it is like that) although I admit that I still ask people to bring us the original Germolene anyway as there is something so comforting about the smell of it!

Flora

www.logis-la-cabane.com

[Christine Animal]

I too used to bring stuff back from England, Savlon, Dettol etc., but since I discovered Dakin Cooper Stabilisé (just ask for Dakin), I hardly use anything else :

http://www.cooper.fr/?p=produit&liste=1&id_gamme=4

There is also Solubacter :

http://www.doctissimo.fr/medicament-SOLUBACTER.htm

And another one is Septivon :

http://www.doctissimo.fr/medicament-SEPTIVON.htm

They can all be purchased at the pharmacie.

Years ago someone picked up and brought to us a wounded hunting dog. He had deep infected wounds (holes) all over him. The country vet at the time said they were probably done by a wild boar and told us to squirt Dakin in them. The result in the way these wounds cleared up was amazing.

You can also get Betadine here which is perhaps milder than Dakin :

http://www.firstrespondersupplies.com/betadine.htm

 

[Patf]

Thanks for the suggestions. There is obviously a lot more available than eosine. Is that what your daughters' friends use, Mrs. O? It leaves a bright red stain. Pat.

[Iceni]

When I was at the wrong end of a liquid nitrogen freezer session I was given a presecription for make - DUCRAY , name - Diaseptyl (not covered for refund). You can buy it over the counter at the pharmacy and it is just a liquid. You put some on clean hands and rub gently on, or spray. Instructions are in English as well as French. It is dermatalogically safe, the antisecptic is chlorhexidine. It is alcohol free and does not sting.

This is a modern product and hopfully will save the use of 'gooeey' TCP which you have to cover or every bit of grit for miles around gets stuck to it or going bright pink with the other stuff. This product I think is so that you can let the air get to the problem and let it breath.

'Our' problem these days is that we still use the stuff that 'Granny' stuck on us when we hurt our knee. I once went into hospital for an infection and the doctor said 'did you bath with D***ol or S***on in the water. I said no and he said. thank gooness. We get more resistant infections via that method than anything else I can think of. I did not have an infection - like the rest of me the results were just not normal

This stuff is great, but then I also carry the strips that act as stiches for the odd slicing off top of the finger etc and I actually had to use them last week - and they worked - not on me luckily.

[Russethouse]

Hot salt water is a a reasonable antiseptic AFAIK. It's G****lene that I was told not to use and true enough it seemed to turn every cut I had to puss - sorry, a singularly horrid thought for a Monday morning.

[andyh4]

What is wrong with Mercurochrome? (SP)  It works and does not sting (unlike TCP and others).  I admit the red is a bit unsightly but the colourless stuff leaves no clues that you have dosed yourself. 

[Teamedup]

I think that they had to stop using mercurachome in schools several years ago.

I know that my husband told me not to buy it and I never have.

I also know that when I used to use dettol my wounds would become septic, so I don't use it any more.