Betadine

Quick and easy – I have always suffered from sore throats till I found Betadine sore throat gargle. The pain disappears and makes swallowing easier. Great product

Exacerbated the lesion. I'd nearly run out of the very good Betadine antiseptic ointment and dashed down to the supermarket to grab, in the stress… Read more

of crowds, what I thought- what looked like -the same stuff.

Since then, over several days the small sore has got worse. So I've read the tiny dark hard to read print on the dark tube and noticed that it's got only half the active ingredient in a damaging substrate to make it 'cream' instead of ointment.

The wound is soggy now, where with the ointment it was dry, with a good scab. It's got bigger, where with the ointment it had shrunk and dried up. I believe this cream is dangerously ineffective.

The good stuff, the ointment, has 10% povidone-iodine equivalent to 1% iodine, in a translucent gel. The cream has half that, in a mucky-looking opaque cream.

The nozzle of the bad cream is short and thick. The cream spills out too liberally and is messy under the oversized cumbersome lid. The good ointment was easy to dispense cleanly in the desired quantity.

Even though I'm getting on in years, and shouldn't be surprised, it still blows my mind how people can enthusiastically embrace and promulgate enshittification like this. Inferior formulation, inferior design.

In this case I'm upset. I find it culpable as the product is not only failing in its one job, but has actually made things worse.