Neosporin?
[quote]jaybvee wrote:
Tape is good - stay vigilant when choosing your bar, clean & wipe it down when possible…
My question is how are you cutting your thumbs while in the hook grip? Granted I don’t use it much since I pronate or mix grip when I DL but bleeding from your thumbs? Is it the nailbed? Or actual skin ripping/reopening up? If it is the knurling on the bar (sharp when they are new)it may help to sand them down lightly when the gym owners aren’t looking.
Keep washing your hands between sets or bring some Purell/hand sanitizer handy if this concerns you.
I use liquid chalk for rock climbing and it has anti-bacterial alcohol on it but I still wash up when I can.
Got a nasty arm infection from a loose cable wire while doing cable flyes years ago - contracted a massive fever & they had to cut me open to drain the pus in my tricep… That & the horse pill antibiotics they put me on - good times. [/quote]
yea, one thumb was bleeding on the tip. the front edge where the nail and skin meet.
[quote]legacyfighter wrote:
Doyle wrote:
Yeah mate, change your grip or use straps. Staff is very common and can be found on peoples skin but only causes infection when it gets in cuts/eyes/nose.
I’m not the kind of person to fret about this stuff, but I guess it is better safe then sorrry.
I once got a staff infection in my nose from playing rugby, nasty, and it made me feel like shit for a week or two. I’m not a fan of antibiotics unless they are necissary though so I let it run its course and it was gone in two weeks.
Let me get this straight, you had a staph infection in your nose and you didn’t use meds to get over it? A) Your full of shit B) It wasn’t actually a staph infection C) You’re an idiot for not taking meds to get over the staph infection in your nose, because it would probably kill you. Staph doesn’t just go away, it keeps spreading until it kills you. Trust me on this, I have had it before, and I almost lost my arm after 4 days. The doc told me that most people that have the strain i had (MRSA) die or lose multiple body parts in that time.
To the original poster, I don’t care whether you get gloves or straps, but cutting yourself in a gym is never good. Staph sucks, it is extremely painful, and it can kill you.[/quote]
It may not have been staff. My old rubgy coach who is also a PDHPE teacher was pretty sure thats what I had and when I looked it up on the net the simptoms matched perfectly. as avocado said though there are different strains of staff and I think it was a minor one.
Where I live it takes two weeks to get an apointment to see a doctor unless it is urgent, I didnt think it was urgent and it went away gradually so I didn’t bother booking an appointment. Yes our immune system can deal with most forms of staff if your a healthy person. I admit it was probably dumb not to go though.
I only found out about the MRSA strain after that post. In Australia it is only a very recent problem, if I had known about that back when i thought I had a staff infection in my nose I would have gone to the doc staight away. That is scary shit.
[quote]Avocado wrote:
legacyfighter wrote:
Doyle wrote:
Yeah mate, change your grip or use straps. Staff is very common and can be found on peoples skin but only causes infection when it gets in cuts/eyes/nose.
I’m not the kind of person to fret about this stuff, but I guess it is better safe then sorrry.
I once got a staff infection in my nose from playing rugby, nasty, and it made me feel like shit for a week or two. I’m not a fan of antibiotics unless they are necissary though so I let it run its course and it was gone in two weeks.
Let me get this straight, you had a staph infection in your nose and you didn’t use meds to get over it? A) Your full of shit B) It wasn’t actually a staph infection C) You’re an idiot for not taking meds to get over the staph infection in your nose, because it would probably kill you. Staph doesn’t just go away, it keeps spreading until it kills you. Trust me on this, I have had it before, and I almost lost my arm after 4 days. The doc told me that most people that have the strain i had (MRSA) die or lose multiple body parts in that time.
To the original poster, I don’t care whether you get gloves or straps, but cutting yourself in a gym is never good. Staph sucks, it is extremely painful, and it can kill you.
No shit eh? even if he did get a minor staff variant that slipped through his lymphatic cycle from scar tissue or some such he still should have taken the anti-bio’s. All you’re doing by toughing out a minor staff virus that your body can get a hold of over time is helping the virus evolve to become more bad ass. Next time he cops that infection or spreads it through blood on a bar it could be unaffected by common restorative means.
There are so many variations of staff. all day everyday your system finds and destroys staff and other little nasties that live inside you or get inside you. It’s the ones that find breeding places safely away from the lymphatic system that get noticeable and need to be treated. scar tissue such as broken noses and such are great places for them to hide.
My old MMA thai boxing coach got one on his shin because his scar tissue build up had separated his lymphatic system from some of his epidermal layer and the virus bred there. He was walking around with his hospital IV stand for a week or more. He hung the IV bag from his car mirror when driving. Funny for us, highly annoying for him.
-chris[/quote]
It has been theorised that the overperscriptiona and miss use of antibiotics is actually the biggest factor that leads to the adaptation of resistant viruses.
I only found out about MRSA yesterday but from wat I’ve read antibiotics wont do much anyway as it has become resistant, much like golden staff which is mostly confined to hospitals.
Sorry for the Hijack, the point of my original post was that it is better to be safe then sorry. Tape your hands up or use straps. Also as someone already mentioned, wash your hand regulary.
[quote]Doyle wrote:
Avocado wrote:
legacyfighter wrote:
Doyle wrote:
Yeah mate, change your grip or use straps. Staff is very common and can be found on peoples skin but only causes infection when it gets in cuts/eyes/nose.
I’m not the kind of person to fret about this stuff, but I guess it is better safe then sorrry.
I once got a staff infection in my nose from playing rugby, nasty, and it made me feel like shit for a week or two. I’m not a fan of antibiotics unless they are necissary though so I let it run its course and it was gone in two weeks.
Let me get this straight, you had a staph infection in your nose and you didn’t use meds to get over it? A) Your full of shit B) It wasn’t actually a staph infection C) You’re an idiot for not taking meds to get over the staph infection in your nose, because it would probably kill you. Staph doesn’t just go away, it keeps spreading until it kills you. Trust me on this, I have had it before, and I almost lost my arm after 4 days. The doc told me that most people that have the strain i had (MRSA) die or lose multiple body parts in that time.
To the original poster, I don’t care whether you get gloves or straps, but cutting yourself in a gym is never good. Staph sucks, it is extremely painful, and it can kill you.
No shit eh? even if he did get a minor staff variant that slipped through his lymphatic cycle from scar tissue or some such he still should have taken the anti-bio’s. All you’re doing by toughing out a minor staff virus that your body can get a hold of over time is helping the virus evolve to become more bad ass. Next time he cops that infection or spreads it through blood on a bar it could be unaffected by common restorative means.
There are so many variations of staff. all day everyday your system finds and destroys staff and other little nasties that live inside you or get inside you. It’s the ones that find breeding places safely away from the lymphatic system that get noticeable and need to be treated. scar tissue such as broken noses and such are great places for them to hide.
My old MMA thai boxing coach got one on his shin because his scar tissue build up had separated his lymphatic system from some of his epidermal layer and the virus bred there. He was walking around with his hospital IV stand for a week or more. He hung the IV bag from his car mirror when driving. Funny for us, highly annoying for him.
-chris
It has been theorised that the overperscriptiona and miss use of antibiotics is actually the biggest factor that leads to the adaptation of resistant viruses.
I only found out about MRSA yesterday but from wat I’ve read antibiotics wont do much anyway as it has become resistant, much like golden staff which is mostly confined to hospitals.
Sorry for the Hijack, the point of my original post was that it is better to be safe then sorry. Tape your hands up or use straps. Also as someone already mentioned, wash your hand regulary.
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Id say primarily the misuse. Its people not taking the full run of the prescription that helps the virus out. but a full dose of IV anti-bios will smash the jasmine out of most staff and make sure it doesnt roll up next year. Where as letting it fully accumulate and then letting it fuck off can easily help a minor variant become immune to your natural defense. therefore making a decent problem out of a highly avoidable one. thats just one more staff variant that you NEED anti bois for now, in theory.
-chris