Why have I never heard of colloidal oatmeal?

[warrior queen]

I was given some cream by my doctor to help with an itchy spot on my ankle that we haven't been able to diagnose, and it's made of colloidal oatmeal.
Never having heard of it, I googled.
Apparently I can make this myself, and it's good for all sorts of itches.
It would have been good to know about when my kids were small and tried to peel off their skin when they had chickenpox!

 

[pointless]

i knew, but i didn't know it was called colloidal, but i was aware of the practice of using oatmeal to fight itchiness.

 

[KRCummings]

Who the fuck doesn't know to put oatmeal on an itch?

 

[cfuhrer]

I thought oatmeal bath and calamine slathering were standard protocol for chicken pox... Since like, Columbus' day.

 

[KRCummings]

This just in, drink water to cure thirst.

 

[pointless]

huh. i had no idea.

 

[Bert Notorius]

It's like cortisone only much less effective.

 

[Wife of Bath]

This just in, drink water to cure thirst.

I don't usually laugh at your posts. but this one...yes. yes.

 

[pointless]

I don't usually laugh at your posts. but this one...yes. yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WezW20Vlh4w

 

[CHNOPS]

This just in, drink water to cure thirst.

That doesn't work, you know. It only makes you want more water later on.

 

[warrior queen]

I have always associated the word 'colloidal' with minerals.
Reading about colloidal oatmeal was baffling, until I looked on google.

 

[shoulderblade]

I have always associated the word 'colloidal' with minerals.
Reading about colloidal oatmeal was baffling, until I looked on google.

Perfectly reasonable. When I saw the word 'colloidal' (not an often used word) my thought was 'colloidal Silver'.