I’m a Nurse. I Knew Every Trick for the Rash Under My Breasts. Not One of Them Lasted Past Three Days.

Every summer, after a shift

This summer

I’ve been a nurse for 31 years. I’ve put cream on more skin than I could ever count.

So this is a little hard to say. For most of those years, I couldn’t fix my own.

Under my breasts. Every summer. By the end of a 12-hour shift it was red, raw and burning. I could smell it when I took my bra off.

I knew every trick in the book, and I tried every one of them on myself. Each one worked for about three days. Then it was right back.

I’m not the only nurse this has happened to. Another nurse wrote this on Trustpilot:

When I read that, I laughed out loud. Three days max. That was my life too, for years.

Everything I Tried on Myself

On my days off I did what I tell my patients. Keep it clean. Keep it dry. Let it get some air. I went without a bra and sat by the fan.

I did everything right. It came back anyway.

Gauze felt like the answer on day one. It soaked up the sweat, and the fold felt better by lunch.

But by hour eight it was soaked through. Now I had a wet strip of cloth pressed right against sore skin. So the fold was wetter at 4 p.m. than it was at 7 a.m. The washcloths did the same thing, only slower.

The hair dryer felt like the answer too. Five minutes on cool and the skin was bone dry.

Then I put on a bra and a scrub top and walked onto the floor. Ten minutes later, skin was lying on skin again, and I was sweating before my first med pass.

The barrier paste stopped the rubbing. But it was never made to kill yeast, so the red came back underneath it.

The antifungal cream was the one I trusted most. It’s yeast, so kill the yeast. And it did, for a couple of days.

But a cream is wet, and my fold never got any air. So the yeast grew right back. The powder started out dry, but by noon it was a damp, caked line in the crease.

What I Missed for 20 Years

If you’d asked me what causes this rash, I could have told you. Moisture, friction and yeast. I could have drawn it on a whiteboard.

Moisture

Friction

Yeast

What I missed was that all three happen at once, in the same inch of skin, all day long.

And every trick I had did one job at a time. The gauze did the wet, until it was soaked. The paste did the rubbing. The cream did the yeast. While I fixed one, the other two kept going.

At work, I can turn a patient in bed and let a fold air out. But nobody’s there to do that for me. I’m on my feet for 12 hours in a bra. My fold doesn’t see air until I get home.

That’s why nothing I tried lasted more than three days.

The Night I Read the Label Like a Chart

One night last spring I got home after a shift, kicked off my clogs and sat down with my phone. An ad came up for a cream made for skin folds.

I almost scrolled past. I’ve seen a hundred of those. But I read the ingredients the way I’d read a chart. For the first time, I saw one tube that did more than one job.

One Tube, All Three Jobs

It was Healora Intertrigo Relief Cream. The label had something for all three.

No steroids. Nothing I’d worry about putting on raw skin.

You smooth it on like a cream. It kills the fungus, then dries down to a powder, and the fold stays dry all day.

I put a thin layer on before my next shift. About the size of a pea covered the whole crease. I gave it a minute to dry down to a powder, then the bra went on.

By the end of that shift the burning had eased. I didn’t have to duck into the bathroom once to check.

• Before the shift
  A thin layer, then get dressed.

  

  Witch hazel pulls the wet out on contact. Zinc oxide sets a thin, breathable barrier between the two sides of the fold. Most women feel no sting, even on raw skin.

  

• Through a 12-hour shift
  It keeps working.

  

  Undecylenic acid keeps killing yeast inside that dry layer. The silica and starch keep soaking up sweat. No gauze, no washcloths, no hair dryer.

  

• Week after week
  Nothing for it to come back to.

  

  The yeast dies and the fold stays dry, so the cracks close and the red fades. Now a thin layer after my shower keeps it that way.

  

In Healora’s customer survey, 96% said their rash healed within 24 hours. Half of them said it healed overnight.

And if you’re in the other 4%, you send it back. Healora gives you 365 days.

My Summer Test

July was the month I used to dread. Twelve-hour shifts, a hot parking lot and a bra I couldn’t wait to take off.

This July I came home, kicked off my clogs and took my bra off. There was no red, no burning and no smell.

One of the younger nurses on my floor asked me what I’d changed. I told her I quit doing one job at a time. Now one cream does all three.

If You’ve Tried Every Trick

You weren’t doing it wrong. You were doing one job at a time, and a fold needs all three at once.

How Can I Buy It?

Order it only from Healora’s official website. Healora doesn’t sell on eBay or in stores, and anything you find on Amazon isn’t ours.

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