Back in the day every Mother swore by it and kids hated the stinging and yellow stain it left

[Sunni Man]

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Oh boy do I remember that.

 

[TNHarley]

Ahh more boomer shit

 

[okfine]

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So funny. Our coddling next door neighbor used to put that shit on her kids.

 

[Muhammed]

Kid: Mom! I fell out of the tree and broke my arm.

Mom: I'll kiss your boo-boo. There, all better. Now go back outside and play.

 

[White 6]

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Same here.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Yep... we use to call it "monkey blood".
I remember one kind stung quite a bit and the other didn't. But don't remember the difference

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Kid: Mom! I fell out of the tree and broke my arm.

Mom: I'll kiss your boo-boo. There, all better. Now go back outside and play.

That was growing up in the 70s for sure!

 

[Sunni Man]

The yellow stain mercurochrome left on your skin seemed to last for weeks. Plus I hated the noxious smell of the stuff.

 

[1srelluc]

Yep... we use to call it "monkey blood".
I remember one kind stung quite a bit and the other didn't. But don't remember the difference

Iodine stung like hell.....Mercurochrome was for nancy boys and girls.

Mom went by the "if it does not sting it's not working" school of thought.

What happened to Mercurochrome?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I dreaded this.... much more... much more

 

[1srelluc]

I dreaded this.... much more... much more

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Well now.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Well now.

Horrible.
My mother grew up in the sticks... I am talking where pavement turns into a gravel road, which turned into a dirt road and then you get out and walk. Way out there.
And enemas was what they did to treat kids who are constipated.
She carried that tradition forward.

 

[1srelluc]

Horrible.
My mother grew up in the sticks... I am talking where pavement turns into a gravel road, which turned into a dirt road and then you get out and walk. Way out there.
And enemas was what they did to treat kids who are constipated.
She carried that tradition forward.

LOL.....Sounds like my dad's home place.

To get to the school bus up on the main (paved) road he had to walk 1.2 miles of farm lane and 1.75 miles of gravel road.

Usually he just went cross-country and forded the creek.

LOL.....He literally did walk uphill both ways when he did that.

 

[Concerned American]

I dreaded this.... much more... much more

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Are you gender confused?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Are you gender confused?

Not sure what an enema has to do with gender?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Nooooooooooooo Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo For the Love of G-d! Get it away!!!

 

[whitehall]

It didn't sting. It looked so red and intimidating that we thought it would sting.

 

[Mr Natural]

It didn't sting. It looked so red and intimidating that we thought it would sting.

Iodine was the stuff that stung.

 

[Batcat]

My parents loved Campho-Phenique. I still think this is great stuff but now it is hard to find. A pharmacist told us that it was no longer being manufactured but I found it on Amazon.