MRSA Notes

And boy was it eye opening! ABC found all sorts of bacteria, including the one we are most concerned about here at MRSA Notes all over the gym. Guess where the worst place was? The shower floor. Wear those shower shoes, without fail! Also in the gym find lots of [...]

It is especially sad when your child gets MRSA. I thought it was heartbreaking to see my husband go through this - I cannot fathom what it would be like to see my child go through it. Both of my children on occasion get staphylococcal skin infections, but luckily, we haven’t been [...]

In Azle, TX, a small town, northwest of Dallas/Fort Worth, Harris Methodist Northwest Hospital has been proactive in their community in teaching its residents about MRSA and how to avoid it.
In January 2005, the hospital decided it was time to do something to prevent or reduce the cases of MRSA.
Ingle says hand cleanliness [...]

My friends Francine Jackson and Theresa Drew have been working so very hard this year on awareness of MRSA in athletics and are now promoting their First Annual Ricky’s MRSA Awareness Walk and Benefit:
July 2, 2006 from 2-4 pm
Keenan’s Irish Pub
New Jersey and Spruce Streets
North Wildwood, NJ
The cost is $15 for the walk only, [...]

Here is something you might not think of - CA-MRSA getting into your body through a blister from a new athletic shoe. I am not sure I would have thought of that one really. Wear good, clean socks and break in new shoes slowly, especially athletic shoes. Use athletic tape or moleskin [...]

Virginia Tech has joined some other big name sports teams in becoming pro-active in the fight against bacteria. They have sprayed all of their surfaces this week (equipment, facilities, turf and anything else they can find) with an antimicrobial solution manufactured by Sports Coatings, which is not a chemical killer (which could potentially produce [...]

Here is yet another story, but one with a happy ending unlke so many others, of a healthy young athlete acquiring CA-MRSA. This is the same story I hear over and over, and the same story we went through. Jerod is a lucky young man!!
Jerod bruised his hip in a pickup [...]

This is a bit of a sad statement, to say the least. Showers not “cool?” Since when did showers have a coolness factor anyway. This is what you do, for your health. We are the adults, we make the rules. If the wrestlers don’t want to shower, they don’t wrestle. [...]

This article is about Bryan Dietrich, an MRSA victim who has opened an athletic equipment cleaning service. Please, all of you athletes out there, either clean your equipment yourself regularly, or get someone to do it for you! This is no longer an optional thing to do.
From mlive.com (Saginaw):
Like most athletes, Dietrich [...]

From Delaware Online:
After practice Thursday, the Archmere Academy wrestlers saw trainer Jim Malseed for a routine skin check. And before tonight’s match against Tatnall, they will see Malseed again.
That would be standard Archmere protocol under normal circumstances. But this week’s revelation that several Delaware high school wrestlers have contracted a hard-to-treat staph infection has many [...]