05-18-2007, 03:22 PM
[cool][#0000ff]That is an excellent point. What I failed to mention was that I never break any skin on my poor old body without first sterilizing the pin, razor blade or Exacto blade I am using for the surgery. Fish spines and the sharp points on the gill covers of many warm water species are not presterilized. If you get zapped, you have the risk of all kinds of nasty infections.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There was a scary program on TV a few nights ago about "staph" infections...from the staphlococcus bacteria. There are several strains and they are feared by hospital personnel because they can attack even minor openings in the skin and kill a patient that was in no danger otherwise. The really bad news is that there is a new strain that is resistant to even the most advanced and heavy duty antibiotics. People are getting it even from a skinned knee or a minor cut. And, when it gets going it can make for a very sick and unpleasant demise.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Moral of the story...make sure you have rubbing alcohol, mercurocrome, merthiolate or hydrogen peroxide to sterilize and to wash out cuts or scrapes quickly. those things should be always in your first aid kits or vehicles...especially if you or your family are "accident prone". It is also good to keep some kind of antiseptic cream (Neosporin) to apply to dressed wounds.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There was a scary program on TV a few nights ago about "staph" infections...from the staphlococcus bacteria. There are several strains and they are feared by hospital personnel because they can attack even minor openings in the skin and kill a patient that was in no danger otherwise. The really bad news is that there is a new strain that is resistant to even the most advanced and heavy duty antibiotics. People are getting it even from a skinned knee or a minor cut. And, when it gets going it can make for a very sick and unpleasant demise.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Moral of the story...make sure you have rubbing alcohol, mercurocrome, merthiolate or hydrogen peroxide to sterilize and to wash out cuts or scrapes quickly. those things should be always in your first aid kits or vehicles...especially if you or your family are "accident prone". It is also good to keep some kind of antiseptic cream (Neosporin) to apply to dressed wounds.[/#0000ff]
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