Posted on 05/26/2019 8:17:51 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A Memorial Day question about RVN JUNGLE ROT. Did you get rid of it? Forever? How?
Most of the Grunts I have known and many others acquired this personal reminder of RVN.
Because of a head wound and no insurance, I used the VA for a few years and they provided a medication. After lucking into a solid health plan I went a Dermatologist once a month for a few years, it turned out he was a schemer. Last visit he was on vacation, his stand in said , the only to get rid of it was to shower and change clothes three times a day! And that was a maybe.
My father in law was a Physician, so he would call in the same prescription (Tri-???Something). Worked but it never ever disappeared.
A few of years ago the Pharmacist, a former RVN guy, said there is newer and better stuff and it is over the counter, no script needed. He recommended tow different products. LAMISIL!!! It worked well!!! But not a permanent solution? Returns every couple of weeks.
A year back I was bushwhacked by poison ivy, head eyes… This Dermatologist proscribed TACROLIMUS 0.1%. for both problems. It worked like a champ!!!
And just now a year later, IT IS BACK???
I work out four times a week , bike, rollers spin bike, rower...always sweat like a horse, everything soaked, puddles under the rollers.
Has anyone found a permanent cure for jungle rot???
miconazole, ketoconazole, or one of these in that family.
My personal physician, a GP had me try one like that, it returns.
I suspect the problem is the moisture, allows the yeast/fungus to remain over the long term.
I even had a fan under my desk at work!
“Horses sweat, men perspire and ladies glow”
I sweat!
Tinactin spray works for me.....burns like a sob with an active infection but knocks it out pretty quickly...
To answer your question: My understanding is generally paid.
Perhaps longer.
All the antifungals that are effective are given so that the medicine permeates into the skin or hair cells and saturates, usually given oral. Then when the fungus grows, it gets inhibited from growing.
Takes a while, especially if you have a slow reproducing organism.
The topicals are mostly for spot application, don't usually work for the deeper entrenched varieties.
Keep asking for referrals to the dermatologist, and if one appears to vapor lock, go to another.
Some samples take a long time to plate out on appropriate media.Most critters and plants that grow on us can be rid of, sometimes takes a while.
Good luck
Say a prayer for the fallen.
Not sleeping is BRUTAL and I was up for close to 70 hours quite a few times in the years following the head injury.
For about the first year they said I would sleep a lot, and did I ever, most of the day and part of the night. But not good restful sleep? No drugs.
They had me counting to five and thinking about it, count to six or seven ...no good, must pay attention and stop at 5., helped.
Glad you are still with us.
You’re glad?
Consider my position on that subject!!!
SMILE!
ALL of your laundry with some bleach added.
I believe that to be the case but will ask my wife?
This crud is living someplace?
Laying low for the next big breakout!
I have a relative who picked it up, she thinks at a swimming pool, in the late '40s. A swimming pool in London. She visited several dermatologists who were of no real help in diagnosing the severe skin ailment affecting her feet. Finally she found a dermatologist who was a vet that had served in Burma in WWII. He took one look the oozing sores and said "it's jungle rot, when were you in the tropics?"
She had never left England at that time, hence the public pool speculation. She had outbreaks, every year or two, at least until the late 1990s. But modern medicine, or time, has apparently worked a cure.
The doctors told him when he was discharged that he could never donate blood, as the fungus would always be in his blood.
I recall some that had DEEP UGLY sores, mine never got that bad, it spreads to a larger area and swells up more.
I too had heard about not giving blood, long ago?
My latest and most successful Doc says it is NOT systemic.
Maybe the old gasoline fire and ice pick trick??
They are on me somewhere.
LOL
Of the many listed suggestions, I have tried most.
Monkey Butt powder is the first that is new to me.
I will track some down.
Thanks.
The suggestions about tea tree oil and the copper & vinegar are both worth consideration. In both cases, they work by disrupting the fungus’ ability to reproduce/replace lost cells, which means the fungus withers away because it can’t sustain itself.
The catch: for tea tree oil, you have to apply it every day for 12-18 months, even if the symptoms disappear before that time. For copper oxide, it may stain your skin and hair green. Personally, I’d go for tea tree oil. It costs more, but there have been plenty of reliable studies done on it to prove that it works against any kind of fungus. If the rot is really bad, you could also supplement every day with a few drops of oregano oil taken orally. Then you hit the problem from both sides of the skin, so to speak.
Well good for you ,,, we had to wear what we were issued . Army Green.
NOT FOR THE 'SQUEAMISH'....
Between my toes would 'scab' up and my heels looked like they had 'craters' in them.
The Navy even allowed me a 'white socks' chit as had a 'fear' of the dye from black socks causing problems??
I put up with it for years and was talking to a 1930s type China Marine who happened (among other things) to have come up with an STD that required a 'reaming' once a quarter...I had figured it would be easier to 'chop it off' than to put up with a 'roto rooter'/snake treatment.
Anyway he suggested I use the old 'farmers' treatement for extremely chapped hands, take a whizz on my feet and toes on a regular basis.
It didn't take long before it cleared up and I have NEVEr had a recurrence.
Fenbendazole.
Sorry I pissed you off but all I did was share that there is new tech in socks that beats the pants off of cotton.
Hope your day gets better or if you are usually like this worse.
Same treatment works for jellyfish stings. Pee on it.
Makes me wonder if the Brit maritime history has anything to do with their national pee fetish?
the old ‘farmers’ treatement for extremely chapped hands, take a whizz on my feet and toes on a regular basis.
Way back when.. a friend and I were diving in the Bahamas.
Along came a very large and frightening fish. We thought it best to get out of the water. In our haste, we were both skewered by sea urchin spines, many of them.
They said it was many miles to the local hospital and$$$ cash only... or do as the locals, pee on the injuries.
It worked! Although I had many black spots on the inside of my fingernails, for a long time.
Your note and others point to the yeast/fungus ‘clinging ‘ to my skin. Perhaps soaking in a bath of the lucky number PH, might keep the bugger at bay?
An idea I came up with in school is to put on clean socks first when changing clothes, THEN boxers. Eliminates feet to crotch transmission of any nasties... even if there are no apparent foot problems.
You , spreading all the fake meds. , who’s pay-roll you on ?
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