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[commodorified]

Rubbing a bit of antibiotic ointment - Polysporin or Neosporin or whatever - into your cuticles at night will give you shockingly healthy and attractive cuticles and nails. Works fast, too.

Comments

[mmegaera]

Just a bit concerned about this being an overuse of antibiotics and that if you do this regularly longterm you might be compromising the cream's ability to work when you really need it to.

But I'm not a medical person, so I may be completely out in left field here.

[commodorified]

I am pretty cautious about antibiotics as well, so definitely not in left field. It is a potential concern, but in this particular case I'm not worried, because:

1) The OTC stuff is a very low-dose, meant more as a preventative than a cure - I'd never recommend putting a heavy, anaerobic ointment over an actively infected site -

2) I strongly suspect that the reason I always have ratty, sore cuticles when I'm not doing this is that the dryness causes cracks and the cracks seem to pick up small infections easily

So I'm not too concerned. Probably safer than, say, putting tetracycline gel on my face, which I used to do for acne.