Chafing Advice

[Vetseun]

Please help with any suggestions.

I am doing long hours in the saddle at the moment.

The seam on the padding on my favourite shorts came loose during a ride a while ago. This was a five hour ride and the loose edge really chowed me in the one side of the groin area.

Got home and applied cream.

The problem is that I am doing six rides a week and the problem is not clearing up.

It just doesnt get a chance to recover.

I cannot stop my rides now as all the previous training would be for nothing.

I was wondering if wearing stockings, (short ones) under my cycling shorts may help.

Or is there some wonder cream.

Any advice will be appreciated as this is very irritating and actually is becoming painful now.

['Dale]

Bit of cortizone cream to promote healing.

 

Keep the area dry with baby powder.

 

Gotta rest a bit for the skin to recover.

[Bianchi]

Best advice for chafing, from my experience - let it heal first. Otherwise it won't heal properly and you're going to sit with a constant chafing issue. You don't need to sit out a week, just monitor it and see when it looks decent.

[Cippo]

Bactroban ointment with a tegaderm / opsite dressing over it. Generic could be Spectroban.

['Dale]

PS Just get a script for that cortizone cream.

 

['Dale]

I presume you use chamois cream, 'Agent?

[NINER_boy]

Apply some Quadriderm cream.

 

From your pharmacy. It is a cream with some cortico0steroids in, and solves almost ANY dermatological ailment.

 

Try and cover up the area during your rides, that the seam doesn't irritate the troubled spot further.

 

Happy hoopin

[Cippo]

If you dont wanna smell like a baby ' coochy coo' get some hygeine powder from Johnson n Johnson at Clicks or Dischem.

[Cippo]

PS Just get a script for that cortizone cream.

 

 

Exactimondo! Cortisones are generally banned. Ask LA he said it was in his sunblock, pffff.

[Vinnydabutcher]

Dude - forget the cortizone gream - go to dischem they heave a home brand babdy bum cream with iron and caster oil.

 

Works 10 times faster than cortizone cream. R 30 I think.

[Cippo]

Dude - forget the cortizone gream - go to dischem they heave a home brand babdy bum cream with iron and caster oil.

 

Works 10 times faster than cortizone cream. R 30 I think.

 

+1, what he said.

[tombeej]

https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/123136-chafe/

['Dale]

Dude - forget the cortizone gream - go to dischem they heave a home brand babdy bum cream with iron and caster oil.

 

Works 10 times faster than cortizone cream. R 30 I think.

 

Sounds good...

more impotantly, the Agent must rest his bum.

[usxorf]

I chafed a few weeks ago during durbanville fun ride from my bib bunching up. Bought some nexcare tape and taped over the raw bits before riding. Works a charm, healed nicely without sacrificing ride time. The tape is waterproof and one of the recommended uses was prevention of blisters. Got it at dischem.

 

This tape: http://www.amazon.com/Nexcare-Absolute-Waterproof-1-Inch-5-Yard/dp/B001H54S82

Edited November 12, 2012 by yazzo

[Ramrod]

I find that Zambuk works a dream too. Seeing as we all seem so comfortable talking about our nether regions. I also experience a problem on longer rides. Bascially where the fold is where you leg meets your bum, i get something that only best be described as an blind pimple. Although it isnt a pimple. I swells up and is extremely sore. I used to think it was caused by the fabric of my bibs folding into the crease in that area. I had lost weight so i thought my shorts were just too big. I have gone down 2 sizes in bibs since then and still have the same problem. Any one else experience this and what did you do to solve it?

['Dale]

Maybe that fave shorts is also worn out.

Time for a new one?