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Someone should sue Abreva (ani.social)

submitted 2 days ago by isekaihero@ani.social to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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Docosanol - the active ingredient in Abreva, is fucking snake oil. I got a cold sore about a week ago and thought it was just a zit and tried to pop it. That didn't work out, and it got infected. So I went to the pharmacy and got some docosanol cream to put on it. It says it's an antiviral, and can reduce the healing time of a cold sore to 2.5 days!

Except it did nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing. My cold sore continued to get inflamed, angry, and painful the longer I applied docosanol cream to it. It got so bad that it started to turn black and I finally gave up on the cream and scrubbed it with hand sanitizer - I had dead skin sloughing off and it didn't even hurt. I didn't feel anything from the hand sanitizer because the SKIN WAS DEAD.

I'm a few days later, and finally the inflammation is down. Scrubbing it with hand sanitizer and applying triple antibiotic ointment is doing more than the docosanol ever did.

I went online and did some more research, and I don't understand how Abreva/Docosanol is marketed as a antiviral.

An antibiotic kills bacteria. An antifungal kills fungus. An Antacid neutralizes stomach acid. AN ANTIVIRAL SHOULD KILL VIRUSES

Except Docosanol doesn't. It doesn't kill virus at all. It "blocks" the virus. Whatever that means. In my case - it didn't do a damn thing. My cold sore got inflamed, infected, and had dead skin peeling off my face because it didn't do a damn thing and this shit comes in tiny 0.07 ounce teensie tiny packets that cost over 100 dollars an ounce, when you could buy a extra large tube of triple antibiotic ointment with multiple ounces of product for 5 bucks and it actually fucking works.

I don't understand why Abreva hasn't been sued into oblivion. This shit is literal snake oil. It's being marketed to do something and it does fucking nothing.

If anyone out there is lawsuit happy, I could totally see someone suing the pants off Abreva and being able to win their case in court. Myself I'm not wealthy enough to afford a lawyer, and I don't care to go to court.

I just can't believe this bullshit.

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[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

AN ANTIVIRAL SHOULD KILL VIRUSES

Viruses arent technically alive though so killing them isnt the right way to think about it

[–] LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sir, this is a Wendy's

[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why are you blaming them for infection when you said you started using it after you popped it and it had gotten infected.

Using it on an infected cold sores doesn't sound like a very good idea to me.

[–] isekaihero@ani.social 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because a cold sore is a viral infection. The medicine says it's an antiviral and reduces healing time to 2.5 days.

[–] 404@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For the herpes virus, yes. But you might have introduced bacteria when you tried to pop the virus outbreak. Your infection might have been bacterial. It sounds likely even, from your post.

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly, especially based on the anectdotal evidence that hand sanitizer and antibiotic ointment brought relief

I have chronic cold sore outbreaks (suffering 2 for several weeks now) and Abreva is the only thing that works, and when theyre painful and throbbing, literally works right away to reduce the discomfort as well

Take that with a grain of salt because anecdote and I have no data for healing time

The active ingredient works by reducing the virus' ability to penetrate the cellular membrane

It sucks that thats the best medical defense weve got but its a virus, its not a live cell with complex interactions with its environment, its a relatively inert arrangement of molecules, that hides from our immune system in immunoprotected nerve cells, the fucker is hard to target

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Always confirm the vector before you start treatment. I see a lot of guessing but no diagnostic confirmation.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How is this a shitpost though?

[–] isekaihero@ani.social -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

yeah i mean sure, anything goes, but this is not a shitpost but rather serious and should be seen as such.