Participation in school athletics.

• Position: HEALTH BEAT - Personal hygiene - Brief article

Participation in school athletics should start with a program for personal hygiene to help avoid staph infections and the more severe methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria. Football players and wrestlers should be particularly wary, as their staph infection rate is well above the national average for athletes overall, cautions Robert Dimeff, director of Primary Care...