Do Americans use iodine? In Russia iodine is used pretty much for every medical condition. Recently I shaved my underpits and couple of days later somekind of a lump appeared. Couple of days later it grew bigger and I tried to squeeze it out with no luck. So I decided to use iodine. Each day I swabbed iodine on my underpit and 5 days later the lump is gone.

Russian iodine looks like this: