Prevent MRSA With HIBICLENS Antimicrobial Soap

HIBICLENS^® IS A LIFELINE FOR ATHLETES

Sports are a great way for our kids to stay healthy, make friends, and learn life lessons. With every soccer practice and basketball game, we build family memories and experiences that last a lifetime.

We also know that sports can get physical at times. And we can usually treat bumps and bruises with ice, adhesive bandages, and rest. But there’s a more serious, difficult to treat, and potentially fatal infection that has been increasing in rates in recent years, affecting athletes of all ages: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

MRSA is a skin infection that is known as a “super bug”. The scary detail is that MRSA is resistant to antibiotics; and it is invading youth sports.

MRSA LURKS IN LOCKER ROOMS

Once only found in hospitals, MRSA outbreaks have spread to youth locker rooms and beyond. In fact, 50 percent of schools have seen MRSA outbreaks (according to the 2010 NATA Survey of Athletic Trainers).

Locker rooms make the perfect location for MRSA. They don’t get sanitized or cleaned often in the first place - plus the infection lurks in the dirty, wet clothes.

Even a high five can spread infections. Athletes in heavy physical contact sports, like wrestling or football, are particularly at risk.

Youth sports aren’t the only ones in danger: the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) experienced a mass Staph outbreak at their facilities in 2009. At least six players were affected by the infection, which caused one player to retire and sue the team for negligence.

If Staph can occur in locker rooms with million dollar athletes and state of the art technology, then consider what it means for your child who uses a middle school locker room.

The easiest way to combat MRSA is to prevent it in the first place. HIBICLENS can help.

HIBICLENS PREVENTS MRSA AND OTHER INFECTIONS FOR UP TO 24 HOURS

HIBICLENS protects your children from all the germs that they will come in contact with during their sports career, including MRSA.

On average, your child will come in contact with 300 surfaces every 30 minutes, and will be exposed to 840,000 germs according to the 2011 Tork^® Report.

200,000 people are hospitalized every year with the flu, including 10 percent who are under the age of five (according to the CDC). HIBICLENS kills the virus before it reaches you and your children’s immune system.

Gentle enough for even the most sensitive skin, HIBICLENS requires application only once every 24 hours. Apply it every morning and enjoy your day worry-free for the rest of the day. HIBICLENS is convenient, long lasting, effective, gentle, and works immediately on contact.

Playing youth sports is one of the best childhood experiences our kids can have. HIBICLENS can help your young athlete have the best experience, in a safe manner. Celebrate your children’s touchdowns with peace of mind. With HIBICLENS, you can “bring home the memories, and not the germs”. Take the first step to protecting your family today with a money-saving coupon and more information at hibiclens.com.

Atlanta Community Huddle on Concussion a Huge Success #ATLHuddle

#ATLHuddle was difficult to ignore on your Twitter feed today. The National Council on Youth Sports Safety (NCYSS), Inc. hosted The Atlanta Community Huddle on Concussion, located at the Loudermilk Center, on January 10, 2015. Coaches, parents, students, athletic trainers, medical officials and others attended this free event. 

The Atlanta Community Huddle featured a town hall meeting emceed by Ryan Cameron, NCYSS Co-Chairs Dr. David Satcher and Dr. Eliot Sorel and PASS Student Ambassador Kylee Bliss, and national experts on injury-related topics.  Atlanta is the first of 11 stops to U.S. communities to teach, share, and learn about the policies and practices adopted in addressing sports-related concussions among youth athletes. 

The NCYSS was established in 2013 in partnership with the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine (SHLI/MSM) and the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University. 

NCYSS launched Protecting Athletes and Sports Safety (PASS), a program that sparked a national conversation on youth sports safety; promotes primary prevention, public health orientation and early intervention; encourages and facilitates research; and educates and influences local, state, and federal policy.

• The NCYSS mission is to raise awareness of and apply an integrative approach to create a culture of prevention and reduce the number of injuries that occur among youth engaged in organized sports.

• The NCYSS vision is to become a leading national and global resource on the significance of healthy lifestyles and physical activity and the prevention, awareness, and treatment of sports-related injuries suffered by pre-collegiate athletes.

Fusionetics offered complimentary orthopedic screenings and participants interacted in sports safety clinics on concussion, hydration, overuse, and AEDs sponsored by Safe Kids Worldwide.

Atlanta Huddle Sessions included: 

• Concussion 101
• Navigating The Technology
• The Impact of Concussion Legislation:  How is it Protecting Your Kids?
• The Culture of Injury Prevention and Care Around Coaching

The program concluded with the Player's Perspective Panel moderated by ESPN's Cari Champion featuring former Atlanta Falcon Charles "Chuck" Smith, Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Michael Johnson, and U.S. Bronze Medalist and bobsledder Aja Evans. 

The Atlanta Community Huddle on Concussion will be the first of 11 stops to U.S. communities to teach, share, and learn about the policies and practices adopted in that community in addressing sports-related concussions among youth athletes.
Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2015/01/10/3522614/atlanta-forum-to-focus-on-concussions.html#storylink=cp

For a full speaker roster and more information, please visit: www.youthsportssafety.org. 

Healthy Doses of Challenge: How Summer Camp Develops Essential Lifelong Antibodies @camprockmont

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Guest Blog Post by Shawn at Camp Rockmont

I must share with you that I have been exposed to a number of illnesses and diseases in my lifetime. Chickenpox, Diphtheria, Hepatitis, the Flu, Measles, and Mumps, to name some of the big ones. Then there’s Tetanus, over and over again. These have all been in my body. And they have very likely been in yours, too!

After all, that’s exactly what you receive in a vaccination. Your body is introduced to a very small dose of the disease-causing antigen. This is good because it is small enough for your immune system to develop antibodies to overcome that small dose and continue to develop more antibodies for the day that you might encounter a larger amount of antigens. This process builds your immune system.

If you are like me, receiving shots – no matter how good they are for you – is nowhere on my list of things that I enjoy. They do hurt, after all!

And yet, many parents find it worthwhile to vaccinate their children. They even take their babies back to the doctor for a variety of immunizations until the child is 6 years old. The infant or preschooler cries out as the shot is delivered, but the parent allows it. Many believe the vaccination is good for the child. Even more, they are convinced it is necessary.

Summer camp is also a type of vaccination, according to American Camp Association Board member Steve Baskin. Mr. Baskin explains that campers receive one developmental shot after another when they are camp. This is good and necessary. Homesickness is the perfect example. When a camper wrestles with homesickness in the camp setting, our staff view this as an opportunity rather than some devastating condition. They move right toward the camper, not to eliminate the homesickness, but to help him learn to cope with the very real things that he is feeling. The camper is developing antibodies, so to speak.

Read more here: http://www.rockmont.com/blog/healthy-doses-of-challenge-how-summer-camp-develop

For more information about Camp Rockmont, please visit:  www.rockmont.com