Apparently, FieldTurf is a mistake....

[SuperHornet]

I just saw this on the BW Off-Topic Board. It floored me. I'm no artificial turf fan, but I had no clue people were getting sick from playing on it.

HS Kid Catches Staph from Artificial Turf

 

[#15 Fan]

I just saw this on the BW Off-Topic Board. It floored me. I'm no artificial turf fan, but I had no clue people were getting sick from playing on it.

HS Kid Catches Staph from Artificial Turf

So, he got an open sore from playing on turf, thus allowing MRSA to enter his body. WHERE the virus entered his body, well there is no telling that. He could've gotten it from the locker room, one of THE major occurrences, or other places. Just because he plays on turf, and thus got MRSA, does NOT mean he got it FROM the turf. C'mon now...I work with people who have the damn virus, and I have yet to contract it cuz I'm safe about it. Artificial turf causes abrasions, and abrasions are breeding pools for diseases...including MRSA. To say the turf causes MRSA...well, that's like saying a loss to Northern Colorado causes retardation...not that THAT is a common misconception, I mean just ask cat fans :dance: Seriously though...don't read into something just because some "scientific" magazine or journal published it. Any kid going to grade school is as succeptible (sp?) to MRSA as much as any kid hitting the gridiron on an artificial turf field.

 

[grizpack]

#15 is right. I am not sure how they tracked the infection to the turf. I am aware that staph infections from locker rooms is a very real problem. Maybe it is more due to the fact that kids today get antibiotics for virtually everything.

No question that you get more abrasions from turf. But the new stuff is WAY better for that than the old carpet was.