MRSA Notes

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 didn’t exactly keep a tidy equipment bag, something health practitioners call a breeding ground for Staphylococcus aureus — staph — a nasty flesh-eating bacteria that can cause fatal pneumonia, life-threatening heart infections and limb amputation.

His experience led to him founding Gear Clean, a year-old operation that rids sports equipment of the smell and germs associated with athletics.

With doctors nationwide warning against dangerous staph strains that aren’t easily knocked out by penicillin, Dietrich feels his business, 8828 Carter in Freeland, is all the more relevant.

Helmets, shoulder, knee and elbow pads, gloves, shin guards, cleats and equipment bags are among articles he sterilizes.

“It’s crazy,” he said, adding that sports tackle should undergo cleansing at least once a month. “Some of these schools send their stuff out to get refurbished once a year, but if you ask them what that entails, they don’t know.”

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