My first crash (road rash)

Brink wrote in part:

<< I went down on wednesday (5 days ago). We were going 22
miles per hour at the time on blacktop. ...>>

You were drafting and clipped your buddy's rear wheel?

I've used Bag Balm quite successfully for saddle sores but
haven't tried it for road rash. Sounds like a good idea,
though it won't deter infection as Neosporin can.

Mike Yankee

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Brink wrote:
|| I went down on wednesday (5 days ago). We were going 22
|| miles per hour at the time on blacktop. I broke my
|| helmet, really bruised my butt muscle, and have a nasty
|| road rash on the side of my hip. All in all, I think I
|| got out pretty well.

How did you go down?

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Anybody ever try the bag balm before?

---Matt Brink

I haven't but I understand it is favored as a treatment and
preventive for saddle sores.

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Quoted message said:

I've used Bag Balm quite successfully for saddle sores but
haven't tried

it for

Quoted message said:

road rash. Sounds like a good idea, though it won't deter
infection as Neosporin can.

Quoted message said:

Mike Yankee

Neosporin or bacitracin is probably the best for preventing
infection. Also, you can apply vitamin e oil once it starts
healing a bit so you;ll have less scars. I used it for
surgery and it works great!

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Quoted message said:

I went down on wednesday (5 days ago). We were going 22
miles per hour at the time on blacktop. I broke my helmet,
really bruised my butt muscle, and have a nasty road rash
on the side of my hip. All in all, I think I got out
pretty well.

I treated the road rash for the first 2 days with neosporin
and have been using a product called "Bag Balm" since then.
It is an older product that was originally used on cow
udders to reduce chaffing and help minor cuts and scraps.
My road rash is doing quite well and I will let you know
more about how i do as time progresses. I think that I
might really be on to something here.

Anybody ever try the bag balm before?

_ I would highly encourage you to try "moist healing". Bag
Balm is lanolin with a veternary disinfectant. Works great
for sore cracked or chaffed skin, but maybe not the best
thing for a deeper wound.

freewheel.comcure.htmOpen ↗

_ I tried it after my last crash and I'd say it cut the
healing time in half from the usual. It's really important
to keep the wound clean though.

_ Booker C. Bense

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Anybody ever try the bag balm before?

---Matt Brink

I haven't but I understand it is favored as a treatment
and preventive for saddle sores.

And nipples sore from breastfeeding. :-)

"Cathy Kearns" wrote: And nipples sore from breastfeeding.
:-) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Isn't that kind of what it's named for?

Since people really want to know how I crashed...... I just
stupidly went off the edge of the road while trying to stay
close to the edge. There was a 2 inch drop off (6 cm) and my
momentum required my wheel to come back up on the road. The
wheel was never going to make it. Half a second later i was
on the ground.

---Brink

(Brink) said:

Since people really want to know how I crashed...... I just
stupidly went off the edge of the road while trying to stay
close to the edge. There was a 2 inch drop off (6 cm) and
my momentum required my wheel to come back up on the road.
The wheel was never going to make it. Half a second later i
was on the ground.

A more eloquent argument for taking the lane has not been
written lately.

-Luigi

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Quoted message said:

I treated the road rash for the first 2 days with
neosporin and have been using a product called "Bag Balm"
since then.

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great stuff... very effective on road rash, inexpensive, and
includes mild antiseptics. I have posted my favorite method
of curing road rash to this group before, developed during
head-to-head experimentation on various spots one time when
I had MAJOR road rash on many square inches.

in a nutshell; I found "wet" dressing to heal WAY faster
with less scarring, but you have to be good about washing to
avoid infection.

- take a shower long enough to soften everything up.
- gently SCRUB all loose material off with
washcloth/mushroom brush
- pat dry with clean towel
- spray with hydrogen peroxide from a flower mister
- pat dry
- smear lightly with bag balm
- cover with saran wrap
- tape edges with 2" wide, clear, packing tape

...do it morning and night. the wet method prevents the
dry/crack as the wound "weeps", and the saran keeps you from
sticking to cloths and bedsheets. when you are healed, be
SURE to keep the new pink skin out of the sun and/or get
religous about SPF40 sunscreen.

d

I have given up on the bag balm for the tegaderm. Tegaderm
is awesome in comparison.

----brink

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I have given up on the bag balm for the tegaderm. Tegaderm
is awesome in comparison.
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there is a prescription ointment Silvadyne which is amazing,
but WAY expensive. Typically its what they use for burn
patients (which is basically what road rash is). If you have
a friend in the ER or a doc that can prescribe it for you,
it is truely awesome stuff.

for average damage, the bag balm seems fine....

d

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(dan baker) said:

- take a shower long enough to soften everything up.
- gently SCRUB all loose material off with
washcloth/mushroom brush
- pat dry with clean towel
- spray with hydrogen peroxide from a flower mister
- pat dry
- smear lightly with bag balm
- cover with saran wrap
- tape edges with 2" wide, clear, packing tape

...do it morning and night. the wet method prevents the
dry/crack as the wound "weeps", and the saran keeps you
from sticking to cloths and bedsheets. when you are healed,
be SURE to keep the new pink skin out of the sun and/or get
religous about SPF40 sunscreen.

Great ideas. I carry a road rash kit in my frist aid kit. I
include a small squirt bottle of Chloroseptic mouthwash to
clean with. This is a anesthetic and antiseptic phenol
normally used for sore throats and mouthwash. Helps cut the
sting a bit while you clean the debre out. I recently saw an
advert for hydrogen peroxide towlettes but havn't found them
in stores yet. Don't forget surgical gloves. After two
incidents of helping others I realized I was being silly not
to protect myself as well as them. Incidently, I carry a
second pair of heavier surgical type gloves for roadside
chain/cog work. These latter ones are available at Home
Depot in the paint dept. I know all of the purist are
groaning, my bag is too big; but the gloves weigh only an
ounce or so.

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(MikeYankee) said:

I've used Bag Balm quite successfully for saddle sores but
haven't tried it for road rash. Sounds like a good idea,
though it won't deter infection as Neosporin can.

On RAAM2004, James Rosar(#183) was passing a struggling
Italian rider for awhile who described his saddle sore
problem as best he could. James dropped back to our pace car
and told us to pass a partialy used can of Bag Balm over to
the other rider's support crew. I sure hope they understood
we were trying to help. You sure can't tell by reading the
instructions on the can. Don't leave home without a supply
as you can't always find it. Too bad it doesn't also come in
small tubes for us pedaling bovine types.

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(whinds) said:

I know all of the purist are groaning, my bag is too big;
but the gloves weigh only an ounce or so.

Don't feel too bad. I recently admitted to packing around
two mini-pumps (a good one, and a loaner). I also frequently
carry table cutlery. In fact I'm just about to go do a
laundromat run. There's a nearby Chinese food place with a
cheap but tolerable $2.50 combo; I'll have some lunch at an
also nearby park while my clothes are in the wash. But I
won't bother taking the usual tools, spare tubes, pump(s),
etc. Just a duffle-ful of laundry, spoon, chopsticks, and if
I can remember to pack it - a couple of sachets of soy
sauce. A thermos of tea would be nice, but I'm out of tea.

Oh yeah ... I use a milk crate. I'm not a purist ;-)

The last time I sustained road rash, I just made a bee-line
for the liquor store, picked up a mickey of Bacardi Gold,
got home, and made another bee-line for the shower (mickey
in hand.) Then I hiked up the street to the drugstore and
bought a bunch of gauze sponges and some cheap knock-off of
3M MicroPore[tm] tape that didn't stick worth a damn.

Money is a lot lighter to pack around than a bunch of stuff.

cheers, Tom

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