[nmh]

Staph is very dangerous and people don't realize it - that is most people.

[cva66snipe]

Staph is very dangerous and people don't realize it - that is most people.

I spent 6 years working in nursing homes in building maintenance. The last place had us boxing up the red bags to ship off. People laughed when I suited up with some rigged up protection including wearing a garbage bag. Staph is something nobody who works in health care related areas wants to catch nor do most wish to spread it around. Every night when I came home from work my clothes went in the washer with Pine Sol added. Between Staph, TB, and persons with Syphilis, etc you were wise to be careful.

[Coldwater Creek]

We kept telling the Dr's that we were afraid of staph, and no one did anything, except prescribing another antibiotic. Finally a GP that the home health nurses found for us realized that we were in trouble, and gave my husband some Sulfa drugs.

By then what started out as an ingrown hair in a cyst on the back of his leg was full of corruption and the cancer Dr. would not allow surgery to remove it. He had to endure the GP mashing on the site without the benefit of deadening for over 45 minutes.