MRSA - Why Aren't We Getting the Message?

Do your children always wash their hands thoroughly (for at least 10 seconds) after coming into the house and before eating or drinking? Do your children wash their hands for at least 10 seconds after using the rest room in your home or outside? Do your children shower thoroughly, especially under the arms and in the groin area after any exertion (sports, gym, tap dance, ballet, Foyle's war playing in the yard) where they may sweat? Until they really get to grips with this whole area you are responsible to teach them.

It is very easy to blame other people when prevention starts with me.

At school

If the students play sports - they shower. They do not share towels, they do not share razors or any other hygiene product. If the court or the playing area is covered in a synthetic grass then the pitch needs to be regularly cleaned. That may be more than doctors currently advise but better to say you have exceeded their advice than to say that you failed in a duty of care. Any wounds due to sliding on the surface need to be washed out and antiseptic applied. The wound then must be covered with a dressing before the student goes back on the pitch.

Sounds simple until you have someone injured who is dying to get back on the pitch but then ends up dying of MRSA.

Eating out

Do you take your kids to a restaurant where there is a play area. Do you ever ask when that play area is disinfected? Do they have facilities so that your child and any others there can wash their hands before coming back to the table and guzzling down the food, as they are starving from all the play? It doesn't matter if it is only a water-free cleanser, it is better than eating with MRSA on their hands.

Fast food outlets especially beware. You need to have answers for the mothers and fathers who ask about the hygiene of your play areas.

In the medical facility (hospital, clinic, day care, senior's care).

MRSA is here and here to stay. (so is Clostridium Difficile) so when nursing is the order of the day, we need to ensure that no-one receives someone else's MRSA especially post-operatively. So make sure that everyone anywhere near any patient, washes their hands before entering the ward and then washes again if they have any physical contact with anyone else in the ward or goes to the rest room. This includes the patients as much as the visitors and especially so if there are any patients in an isolation unit that they do not get cross-contaminated. We need to ensure that no hygiene products are shared or re-used before washing, even soap and towels.


Wherever you are Home, School, Restaurant, or medical facility get the message wash and do not share.

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