Sudocrem

sideboard

Just heard that good ol' sudocrem may be all that I need to protect me cows from mastitis...an' I thought it was just for me spots...:rolleyes:

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brian_t

I presume you're referring to this article from the Examiner.

Prize-winning schoolgirls take quantum leap from babies’ bottoms to dairy cows’ udders
By Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent
Thursday, May 03, 2012

Two Co Limerick schoolgirls have found a widely-used cream for soothing babies’ bottoms is a great remedy for dairy cows with sore udders caused by mastitis.

Meabh Mulcahy, aged 16, from Coolcappa, Rathkeale, and Mairead O’Donnell, also 16, from Ballingaddy, Kimallock, yesterday won a schools science award for their discovery, which could save farmers huge sums of money.

Both girls, transition year students St Mary’s Secondary school in Charleville, did their research on the family farms run by their dads, Liam Mulcahy and David O’Donnell. They found that a tub of Sudocrem costing €4 can clear mastitis in a dairy cow just as quickly as widely-used veterinary injections which cost €60 per treatment.

Meabh said: "Not alone is the Sudocrem treatment cheaper, but the cows milk does not have to be discarded as it is not an antibiotic.

"At home on the farm we always liked to come up with home remedies to treat our dairy herd, and we came across this almost by accident when we applied the Sudocrem to cows when they began to show the first signs of mastitis in their udders.

"After every milking, two times a day, I applied the cream, and over five days the cows got better. Mairead and I found from research that zinc oxide in the Sudocrem had very strong healing powers."

Yesterday their discovery won first prize at the Scifest exhibition run at Limerick Institute of Technology, which attracted over 100 projects from 16 schools in Limerick city and Counties Cork, Clare and Tipperary.

As part of their research, the girls consulted scientists at UCC’s food and science laboratory, as well as Limerick veterinary pharmacist Sadie Ryan.

The girls are embarking on further research to come up with their own cream to treat mastitis.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/prize-winning-schoolgirls-take-quantum-leap-from-babies-bottoms-to-dairy-cows-udders-192610.html

sh1tstirrer

I used sudocrem on my hands when they got badly chapped from milking in cold weather it cleared them up in no time. When ever I used it since then it never worked, I must have got immune to it. Probably the same would happen with repeated use on cows.

The young scientists have a habit of inventing things that have already been invented. Like the two a few years ago that invented their version of the Californian mastitis test. A few years before some fella invented a stove made from tin drums which already had been dreamed up years before by hippies.

Tipp Man

So does the Sudocream actually work??

Better than tubes if it does

whelan1

sudocrem works great here on the kids.... have about 5 jars around the house for any cuts etc... fantastic on my c section scar after surgery ( too much info ) not nice when kids plaster the wall with it though

Chicken Run

works on sunburnt horses noses too if you've pale horses.... healed the blisters and the zinc oxide acted as a physical sunblock - just plastered it on

leg wax

used it years ago on cows teats found is the best for chapped and rough teats.

sideboard

Just bought meself 6 tubs of sudocrem and will be applying it daily to udders...will let ye know if I ever have a case of mastitis this year!

Thanks for responses, which on the whole seems to merit sudocrem use.

Bizzum

sideboard wrote: »

Thanks for responses, which on the whole seems to merit sudocrem use.

Whereas On the hole traditionally merited Sudocrem use:D

sideboard

Bizzum wrote: »

Whereas On the hole traditionally merited Sudocrem use:D

tut, tut, keep it clean....or didn't you have vaseline either??

mickey1985

Anyone try this with sucess? i have 3 cows i am quater milking looking for a cure without antibiotics as they dont seem to be working.

mikeoh

mickey1985 wrote: »

Anyone try this with sucess? i have 3 cows i am quater milking looking for a cure without antibiotics as they dont seem to be working.

Google "Dynamint" and mastitis .....its used as an antinflammatory sports rub ere in Ireland but in the US it is sold by the bucket to treat mastitis in cows ....it can only be got in Fortunes supplies Gorey co. Wexford I use it for greyhounds horses and humans ....... When the wife was in the maternity the midwife was telling them about it!!!