rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]

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Cake day: December 22nd, 2023

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  • Clotrimazole. I often have had it prescribed in the past, but it’s just sold as Lotrimin over the counter. Works wonders. This used to happen to me every other summer, and the Clotrimazole would clear it up within days.

    Not sure if you know what’s causing it or not. For me, I got in the habit of wearing jeans during the hot, humid summers because I wanted to be hip and cool and I look not good in shorts. Jock itch would inevitably start until I finally got it in my head to just wear shorts in the summer, who cares how I look. Also, while you’re trying to clear it up, make sure you dry really really well down there. Like dry it, then dry it again, then dry it again. Obviously you should keep that area dry in general, but for now just try to make sure it’s extra dry.



















  • I’m hopeful, but there are a couple things that have me questioning this

    First of all, they say outright

    The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of intranasal vaccination, which was not designed to assess protection efficacy.

    So they’re not actually testing protection from covid really? And as such they say

    The limitation of this study in assessing protection effectiveness was the lack of a placebo group to monitor the infection rate with the exact timing as the intranasally vaccinated group

    So although the protection rate has me hopeful, it seems they can’t actually say that this has any more protection over no mucosal vaccine

    The zero-COVID policy was lifted when this study began. Many participants were infected before the vaccination could induce sufficient immune barrier to counter infection, and these infected participants had to drop out of the study.

    Nearly 75% of participants infected after first dose

    Remarkably, among 31 participants who received the second dose (December 28–30, 2022), only 2 participants reported infection on day 1 and day 3 after vaccination. After that, all 29 participants reported no infection for the following 3 months.

    So a lot of participants in the study actually got infected and didn’t finish the study. Is it possible that those who finished the study were just more cautious about covid in other aspects of their life? Like I can go 3 months with no infection just wearing a mask, and it doesn’t seem like this study tracked non-vaccine covid precautions in participants, nor is there a placebo to which to compare the group that finished the study. Although this study has me hopeful, this doesn’t seem like the deus ex machina that I want it to be. Maybe someone can let me know if I’m reading it wrong though. It’s also 5am and I’m falling asleep so maybe I missed something

    Edit: they also explicitly say

    People who got an infection were excluded from the study.