Concept2 Forum

Ok so when i get a blister and it has popped I tear off the skin, apply a big drop of polysporin and then cover with a bandaid. Do so until u get skin falling off the blister area. To prevent the blister from drying out, I use polysporin for the following week. I find that if I follow that, raw skin is painlessly rowable within 3 days. If the blister hasnt popped yet, dont pop it for as long as you can, since this allows the skin to do what was mentioned above naturally. If you need to row with a blister do the above steps and cover the bandaid in electricians tape. Anyways....Hope it helps

Thanks for the tip, maybe it will take a few days until you get feedback on this.
I don't get many blisters anymore, only when we use different oars from those we get used to (I specially hate the C2 with white grips, grr! ).
I just use loads of moistoning cream (I like Neutrogena the best, but it's not cheap). If the blisters don't pop, just leave them! If theu break, I carefully cut off the skin, and moisture as often as I remember.

I have no idea what "polysporin" is, whether it's licenced by NICE, available as OTC or prescription or where I'd get it in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neosporin

Didn't you want to find this??

Citroen wrote:I have no idea what "polysporin" is, whether it's licenced by NICE, available as OTC or prescription or where I'd get it in the UK.

It is an OTC antibiotic in the U.S. I just did a Barney on it and it seems to be available in Canada as well. Another one is neosporin, which has the two ingredients present in polysporin (bacitracin and polymyxin) plus a third (neomycin).

Bob S.

P.S. What is NICE? Never mind, I'll Google it.

Bob S. wrote: P.S. What is NICE? Never mind, I'll Google it.

It's a UK Gov't agency; National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Compare it to the US FDA.

Bob S. wrote: P.S. What is NICE? Never mind, I'll Google it.

Whew! I lucked out on that one. There were almost a half billion hits for nice, mostly for the French city probably. but the very second one was National Institute of Clinical Evidence. I had guessed that it was something like this. I guess that the U.S. equivalent would be FDA approved.

Bob S.

I just did a Barney

Nice (pun intended) reference Bob.

Snuffy Smith would be proud(if he every wakes up to read the post).

ST

What I find that also really works well is Friars Balsam - not sure if you could find it outside of South Africa though.

Hrm, I think I'll give your method a try one of these days. It would be nice to get back to band aids and strip off the tape. But for on the water rowers that row daily and have blisters, I would suggest the waterproof liquid bandages. They stay on while you're rowing and peel off easily enough when you're done. Plus, it's always feasible to stop and put on more in the boat instead of constantly putting on bandaids and tape that will fall off. The liquid bandage also keeps in moisture and keeps the dirt off. I don't get so many blisters any more, but when I switch back to port or swap oars, they can get pretty nasty. Thanks for the help, gsedun.