Posted on 11/19/2004 6:32:42 AM PST by TaxRelief
The "latest" homosexual disease...? I didn't know there was such a thing as a "homosexual" disease.
ROTFLOL!! KUDOS!! You get the prize!!
Mohawks? Thats sarcasm but who knows?
LOL!
The limited letters allowed in the headline cause ungrammatical subtitles.
STAPH, as in Staphylococcus Aureus, a fairly common bacteria found commonly on the skin. There are a number of strains, some more infections than others and the worst being of the flesh-eating variety. Very nasty overall if you become infected with any of them and they are the most common nosocomial or hospital infections. A few years back there was a rash of these infections in hospitals that came down to doctors and nurses not washing their hands between handling patients. Scrupulous hygiene is key in preventing this problem and also there are some people who are just plain carriers. If you put a carrier in a room, surrounded them with culture dishes and asked them to shake their arms you would find that after incubating the plates they would all show high numbers of staph colonies. These carriers literally expel or throw large quantities of the bacteria from their bodies without becoming infected themselves.
I loathe shaving. The thought of ADDING to that cumbersome chore? Ha!
MM
Bunghole abrasion can't be good.
No, there is not.
Now I'm going to be paranoid about my carbuncles.
It seems that the most important action may be to avoid contact with people who have weeping, crusted sores and to avoid contact with the stuff they touch.
That's what I get from all these posts. What's your take?
The part about shaving the body seems about as unscientific as it gets. What about swimmers? They shave their whole body to be faster in the water. Is there a bigger chace that they pick up staph? And body bullders, what about them?
I know what MRSA is and how debilitating it is.
I read an article here on FR about women getting this same thing from the whirlpools they put their feet in when they get pedicures...they get it where the water comes in contact with where they shave their legs.
Apparently the pedicurist doesn't clean the whirlpool out well enough...
I remember because I always thought I'd like to get a pedicure...but am not so sure, now! LOL
Waxing is the way to go, and has the added benefits of needing to be done less and less as you go along.
The body shaving makes the skin thin, allowing the infection to pass the skin layer. So, I'd avoid shaving as long as you're in contact sports and encourage your training partners to do likewise.
Personally I like to keep them at least as far as stick length but one should train for all ranges.
Groos A, Naimi T, Wolset D, Smith-Johnson K, Moore K, Cheek J. Emergence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a rural American Indian community (Abstract 1230), 39th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, San Francisco, CA, 1999.
Be careful out there folks.
If you get a fever, achings and an area of skin starts to feel noticably warmer than
surrounding tissues...
RUN to the doctor.
And tell your MD of your suspicion of cellulitis (bacterial infection of skin).
Don't let them off the hook.
An MD gave me prednisone (steroid) when he should have given me antibiotics.
Almost cost me a leg.
I have recently switched to Nair for Men, but I usually do not have time, and just reach for my wife razor.
To understand the shaving connection, feast your eyes on the information about "carbuncles" in post # 26.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1283800/posts?page=26#26
Also, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) fact sheet is very consistent with information in the article.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/Aresist/mrsafaq.htm
Kali / JKD practitioner, I assume? Good stuff.
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