My Husband Called It Jock Itch for 11 Summers. Then I Found Out What It Really Was, and Why His Spray Never Stood a Chance.

11 summers of this

3 weeks later

“It’s just jock itch, Donna. Go back to bed.”

That’s what Ron told me at two in the morning. He was sitting on the edge of our tub in the dark with a bag of frozen peas pressed to the inside of his leg. We’ve been married 38 years, and every summer for the last eleven I’d heard that same line. That night I finally stopped believing it.

Every June, the same blue can

Ron is 67. He ran the grain elevator in our town for 30 years. He doesn’t complain, and he won’t go to the doctor.

Eleven summers ago he got a red patch where his leg meets his body. Then a raw strip under his gut, right where it hangs over his belt. He called it jock itch. Every man in his family calls everything down there jock itch.

So every June he bought the blue spray can at the drugstore. It worked for a week, maybe two. Then the first hot day it came right back, a little angrier than before. So he bought another can.

What he thought I didn’t notice

He gave up golf and fishing with his brother. In July he wouldn’t even walk the dog. He told everybody it was his knees. It was never his knees.

I finally dragged him to the doctor. The doctor looked for about two seconds, said “jock itch,” and told him to keep using the spray. Ron drove home and said, “See? Told you.” I wanted to scream.

Then I found out what it really was

I’ve had a fold rash of my own for years, under my belly. One night at the kitchen table I was reading about mine, and it hit me that his was the same thing. It has a real name. Doctors call it intertrigo. It’s a rash that lives in a fold of skin, and on a man it mostly shows up in two places: under the gut, and where his leg meets his body.

Three things go wrong in that fold at the same time. It never gets air, so it stays wet with sweat all day. Every step, skin rubs on skin until it’s raw. And yeast moves right into that wet, raw skin. That’s where the burn and the itch and that smell come from.

Moisture

Friction

Yeast

Turn that can around and read the back. It’s made for feet. It kills some of the fungus, but then the sweat comes right back, and the yeast grows right back with it. That’s why it worked for a week every June and then quit on him. When I finally went looking, I found seven empty cans on his shelf in the garage.

Powder by noon

Healora, dry

Then there was the Gold Bond. He’d dump it on in the morning. By lunch it was a gummy paste stuck in the crease, holding the sweat right up against the raw skin. Some nights I found it caked in the sheets.

So I set a tube by his sink and said nothing

I’d been using a cream called Healora on my own rash. It kills the fungus and then dries down like a powder, so the fold stays dry. Then I found out they’d made a men’s version, with the formula adjusted for men. So I ordered it for him.

Ron took one look at it and said, “I’m not putting a lady’s cream on myself.”

Fine. I set the tube on his side of the bathroom sink, right next to his razor. I didn’t say another word about it. Thirty-eight years teaches you a few things.

Then the bathroom fan stopped

He didn’t tell me he’d tried it. I figured it out because the fan didn’t come on at 2 a.m. that night. First time all summer.

Later he told me what happened. He put a thin layer on after his shower and got ready for it to burn like the spray always did. It didn’t sting him, not even on the raw spots. I read later that most men feel no sting with Healora. It went on cool, and in about a minute it had dried down to something like powder.

A few days later he walked into the kitchen, poured his coffee and said, “It’s dry, Donna.” For the first time in eleven summers, the fold under his gut was dry.

What I watched happen

• Night 1

  

  The burning eased off within hours. He slept straight through till morning. So did I.

  

• Day 3

  

  The itch was gone. He walked the dog in shorts in July. I hadn’t seen that in years.

  

• Week 2

  

  The red was gone and the skin was dry and smooth. He kept putting it on morning and night like the directions say, and he went fishing with his brother.

  

• Week 3

  

  He was back on the golf course. And he finally let me look. There was nothing left to see.

  

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

Why it worked when eleven summers of spray didn’t

I read the whole back of that tube. The spray only went after the fungus. Healora goes after all three, all in one thin layer.

It kills the yeast. 10% undecylenic acid, an antifungal, goes after the yeast behind the burn, the itch and the smell. Tea tree helps.

It dries the fold. Silica and tapioca soak up the sweat. It dries down like powder instead of sitting there wet and greasy.

It stops the rubbing. 15% zinc oxide leaves a coat on the skin, so skin stops grinding on skin with every step.

It settles the raw skin. Witch hazel and plant glycerin calm it down. Use it every day and the fold stays dry, so the rash has nothing to grow in.

If you’re the wife reading this

I know you. You’re the one doing his laundry, so you’re the one who smells it. You hear him get up at night, and you watch him walk out to the truck like it hurts. It does hurt.

He’s going to tell you it’s jock itch, and come June he’s going to buy another can. He won’t fix this on his own. Mine sure didn’t, not in eleven years.

So don’t wait on him. Order it and set it by his sink like I did. Every order has a 365-day money-back guarantee, so if it doesn’t work, you get your money back.

What Ron says now

“Eleven summers, Donna. I should’ve just listened to you.”

That’s the closest thing to an apology I’ve gotten out of that man in 38 years. I’ll take it.

P.S. Get two or three tubes, not one. The fold under his gut isn’t going anywhere, and summer comes back every year. Ron puts a thin layer on every morning now so it stays dry and doesn’t come back. Two tubes or more ship free.

How Can I Get It?

Order it only from Healora’s official website. Healora doesn’t sell on Amazon, on eBay, or in stores.

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