Anyone who has a child that plays sports knows that we moms get together and talk about everything from what we did last weekend to our latest concerns about our children. So when one of the children on the team developed a staph infection, it didn't take long for the details to circulate to all of us.

The story was scary, the child's infection turned out to be MRSA, methicillin resistant staph, and he spent 4 days in the hospital on strong antibiotics.  He did make it through OK.

After that experience, I decided to research preventative measures to avoid a similar situation with my own...