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MRSA breakout in Tampa - Eagles-Bucs game in jeopardy? (1 Viewer)
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tkrull
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Sarnoff
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Staph is a common bacteria on everyone's skin. Everyone's. MRSA is a form of Staph that is resistant to some good penicillin antibiotics. There are other antibiotics that can still be used to treat MRSA infections. depending on communities, some places have as high as a 20% incidence...meaning, 20% of all MRSA infections are from the community and not health care facilities (which is by far the most common sorce of getting contaminated with MRSA).
Staph or MRSA infections can be serious but the vast majority are usually not and easily treated with oral antibiotics.
if there is an "outbreak" then it's likely in the locker room. players infected need antibiotics; players colonized with MRSA need to do nothing (remember, ~10-20% of the community is colonized). if the organization wants to do something about it, they can try to decontaminate the locker room or tell players to wash their hands and stop touching each other.
Staph or MRSA infections can be serious but the vast majority are usually not and easily treated with oral antibiotics.
if there is an "outbreak" then it's likely in the locker room. players infected need antibiotics; players colonized with MRSA need to do nothing (remember, ~10-20% of the community is colonized). if the organization wants to do something about it, they can try to decontaminate the locker room or tell players to wash their hands and stop touching each other.
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KellysHeroes
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3 players now, the union has to get involved... I love football but if these players are indanger than cancel the game and get that placed cleaned up
bostonfred
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mad sweeney
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MRSA can get in from something as small as an insect bite. These guys go in there with scratches all over their arms and hands and faces. Health has little to go with it either, unless you're somehow naturally producing Bactrim in your body somehow. When a number of people get it and they're sharing the same facility, then it damn well is a scare.
KellysHeroes
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yeah but many fans have been boycotting the games for the past couple of weeks; protesting Schiano I think
WOW...serious over-reaction. AS someone recently pointed out...MRSA is actually pretty common. It only presents a serious problem if you are immuno-compromised. In any large hospital at any given time there are 10 or more people who are + for MRSA...and almost every one of them is in the hosptial for something other than MRSA.KellysHeroes said:
I just got my RN licence, did my role transtion in the ICU, where there were 2 or 3 people with MRSA at almost all times. WHile MRSA can be spread by skin contact, it presents little danger unless your immune system is messed up. With multiple people testing positive, there are some prudent additional steps that can and should be taken, but the people involved are young and healthy. There is no good reason for the game to be in joepardy, and there is virtually nothing for the NFLPA to do.Captain Hook said:
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Depending where the infection is maybe these players need to sit (which would involve the doc saying so) I don't understand why both teams would have to sit and reschedule the game.
There's plenty of disgusting skin infections in the world. Staph is not new to sports-IIRC this was what ended Jurevicius' career which was close to being over anyway.
I don't understand this outrage and feel like its a bit much. Sunday morning some NFL player could be bit by a spider and have a MRSA infection. I'm not inclined to support cancelling games for spider bites and I'm not jumping on this bandwagon.
There's plenty of disgusting skin infections in the world. Staph is not new to sports-IIRC this was what ended Jurevicius' career which was close to being over anyway.
I don't understand this outrage and feel like its a bit much. Sunday morning some NFL player could be bit by a spider and have a MRSA infection. I'm not inclined to support cancelling games for spider bites and I'm not jumping on this bandwagon.
KellysHeroes
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Both my wife and son almost died from MRSA in a hostipal; they were on serious anti's for years!!! This is serious and I can't blame anybody that refused to play in that building if its not clean.
KellysHeroes
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Sorry your family went through that.
A few years ago, the Browns had major issues with staph. The Browns and the NFL spent millions in research and experts to combat this. The NFL created policies and procedures for about hosing down equipment and locker rooms. These were so extensive that they were lauded throughout the healthcare industry as major progress and it definitively killed anything present. The issue could be when a man sweats on equipment or inadvertently touches another, for me this is more about personal hygiene and common courtesy type stuff.
Teams were required to spend millions on this equipment to hose down things. The impression given is that there is no safer place in the world than an NFL weight room after it's been hosed down.
I assume the Bucs have this equipment and follow the policy.
The concern is not so much with equipment but moreso like the little kids game of a person having koodies.
The players (short of Lambeau leap) don't really go into the stands so I can't imagine the stands being a concern or dangerous place to be.
NFL Kickers feet are disgusting. It is possible Tynes wears the same socks because they bring him luck. It's possible the same shoes. Kickers are superstitious about their feet and famously gross. I would want to know some facts before guessing on anything about Tynes.
To throw a counter argument- what if there is a nest of black widow spiders somewhere in the Bucs facilities? This would have nothing to do with cleanliness or hygiene. Early on there's a couple marks that denote a bite but most people disregard bug bites then suddenly they're all infected and go to an ER-at this point the bite marks aren't there as the skin isn't even there.
Should the NFL call the game and have everywhere the Bucs go sprayed with bug poisons? Should the fans panic and envision some horror movie with spiders?
Most importantly is the fact that if you get a MRSA infection and present to a doctor right away, you're extremely likely to be fine. In our day to day, people don't do this. We brush off cuts because we're men and not running to a doc for a booboo. We disregard bug bites because ....idk we just do. The MRSA infection gets larger and larger and about gets a head of steam and then is very scary. Maybe the NFL needs to require players to discuss every cut with their team physician, I don't know. Our normal personal habits make everyone susceptible to a bad MRSA infection. I don't know all the details of the Bucs case, chances are they were normal people that brushed off something they shouldn't have.
mad sweeney
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When I got my first one I thought it was just a bug bite for a few days. By the time I went in I was just about at the tipping point. If the worker's comp doctor had given me the right antibiotics at the time i probably would have been fine. He didn't and 36 hours later I was in the ER, first of two visits in as many days. ER doc said if if been an hour later I probably would've been in the icu. As it was, I was crashing hard just from the time my arm swelled up to the time I was seen by the doc. Never felt worse, like food poisoning and a bad hangover combined, even my fingernails hurt. By the time you realize there's a problem, it's close to being a real problem. That said, if I was in a place that had a recent history of it, I'd be popping Bactrim if I had any cut or bite that didn't heal right away it had red around it after a day or two.
SacramentoBob
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One of my neighbor's died from a MRSA infection, so this isn't something to #### around with.
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