everyone has staph on their body all the time. so when you're in situations like gyms, where it's hot & people are getting cut & sweated on that's how it spreads...
i just had MRSA a little while ago and my Dr. turned me on to this amazing stuff called Hibicleanse. it's available in any drugstore. it's an actual surgical-quality scrub that they use in hospitals (i know cause my mother & sister work in the ER and they use it there for the nurses to clean up with)
it comes in a green plastic bottle (in the bandage section of the drugstore), 8 oz. for about $12, and any time you think you have been exposed to staph or MRSA (or any other skin infection) wash the area with a small amount of Hibicleanse (althought NOT your genital area). it is antiseptic with long-term antimicrobial action - which means it will kill all the microbes on the area you scrub with it, plus for about 6 hours afterwards it gives you a ton of added protection from germs or bacteria.
now this is not surefire protection, but it can & does help prevent infections, plus if you already have staph or MRSA washing around the infected area with Hibicleanse will help stop the spread of it, since even antibiotics take time to start working.
***NOTE*** Hibicleanse is not meant to go IN holes from staph or MRSA, so if you have a hole, wash around it. but if the hole has the bumps (they look like big zits or mosquito bites with a brown or white center) around it, it's safe to wash the bumps with. and again, don't wash your genitals with it.
TO KEVIN - mine wasn't as bad as yours, but it still hurt like hell, i know what you're going through and i know it seems like it takes FOREVER to get all better, but it'll all be over eventually. at least yours isn't on your butt where mine was - one butt cheek hurt like hell from the MRSA and the other one hurt cause it was the only one i could sit on for weeks.
i can laugh about it know :X hope you heal fast as possible!!
