I use pure Vaseline or Vaseline with herbal extracts or with 1% of Gentian Violet (according to the cause of nipple trauma) for moms who do not want to use lanolin. It works very well, it is cheap and easy to apply (better than the sticky lanolin, anyway). I was taken to the idea when my daughter had a tattoo and the tattoo artist (a very nice woman, BTW) advised to use vaseline for healing and protecting. A tattoo being a rather large skin area with numerous tiny wounds and thus bacteria entrances, I thought I would be safe on other sensitive parts.
As I understand it it serves as a means of moist wound healing without adding or extracting anything. It is not absorbed by skin or damaged skin, but protects substances going in or out: moist stays in, bugs stay out. In that sense it is a substitute barrier.
So, Rachel, in your ointment it must be the other ingredient that makes the stuff so expensive. Vaseline is practically for free (as a matter of spreech); online for sale for under ¤5,- for a 225grams jar.
Do you have the Norwegian name for it? Maybe some North-western Europeans can make sense of it.
Warmly,
Gonneke
IBCLC, LLLL in southern Netherlands, which by all means is still northwestern Europe
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From: Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 8:37:34 AM
Subject: [LACTNET] ophthalmic ointment for nipple fissures
The ointment I have in mind consists of two ingredients both of which
are
biologically inert, in the sense of not being absorbed or metabolized
by the
patient. Since it is meant to be applied in the eye, to prevent drying
out in
people whose eyelids don't close automatically, as after a stroke, I
assume it
is not dangerous when applied to a fissure either. The question is
whether
there is any point to it, and that is why I am interested in whether
there is
research showing its relative effectiveness compared to any other
measures
used to treat sore or cracked nipples. It is also very costly - about
fifteen
hundred US dollars per pound, calculated by today's exchange rate from
Norwegian kroner. Seems a bit steep for vaseline.
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway
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