Possible reason for some abcesses

[welloiledmachine]

the best thing to remember is always alcohol swab your gear vial and your injection site before and after injection. this may cut down on possible infection obviously. For anyone who has never had a staph infection, abcess etc. Don't risk it and always follow a strick protocol..Staph can kill ya and is characterized by night sweats, fever, redness, and sorness of an injection area.

 

[gettnlarge01]

Keeping everything sterile is key

 

[ItalianMuscle27]

if they didnt have something like that id bring my own
lysol probably

I forgot to ask them today whats in them. I wont forget tomorrow..

 

[02gixxersix]

Cal me crazy but I use Alcohol in a spray bottle. I spray down my hands a little bit, the area I am going to inject and I lay down the needle, and bottle on a piece of paper towel and spray it down a little bit with alcohol. I then swab the injectiong site and the top of the bottle and draw up in ject and swab again. You can never be too safe and alcohol costs next to nothing.

With that in mind what kinds of antibiotics do you think should be kept on hand?

 

[jagerbombme]

fuck, i don't touch the needle with anything or spray it, that shit hurts going in if it's still wet.

i swab my vial, take out needle, suck out shit, twist off that needle and twist on injecting needle, swab the shit out of the whole area near where i am injecting with a fresh swab, inject, and swab whole area again with another clean swab. like you said, alcholol is cheap.

 

[solidspine]

All abscesses are caused by infections.

 

[Selene]

I changed gyms recently, and I really like the new one im at. They have these spray bottles and rags near pretty much every machine in the gym for you to wipe down equipment. Not sure whats in there, but Im sure its some type of disenfectant, or anti-bacterial spray. First gym Ive been to that does something like this. And its not no fancy 24hr fitness club. Been to plenty of those, and never seen them do anything but try to sell ya a $1k/year membership..

yes this is good, I have been to some gyms when traveling that also do this
but not always people use. I like to bring a towel big enough to cover where my skin will touch padding and never touch my face with my hands.

 

[gjohnson5]

Some of you are either paranoid or you're in denial...
People aren't getting abscesses from gym equipment. Lee Priest didn't get an abscess from his gym either.

LOL @ bringing lysol to the gym. They need to provide that

 

[02gixxersix]

fuck, i don't touch the needle with anything or spray it, that shit hurts going in if it's still wet.

i swab my vial, take out needle, suck out shit, twist off that needle and twist on injecting needle, swab the shit out of the whole area near where i am injecting with a fresh swab, inject, and swab whole area again with another clean swab. like you said, alcholol is cheap.

I spray it down while the needle is still capped. Basically I just worry about my area being sterile. Paranoid somewhat but I just figure why not risk it. I don't do this all the time........shit most of the guys I know shoot right after the gym no alcohol no nothing not even an aspiration.

 

[medical]

Alcohol doesn't "sterilize" anything. Alcohol works by breaking down chemical bonds so you can wipe gross contamination away. About 3 years ago there was a huge recall of packaged alcohol swabs due to bacterial contamination.....that's right: The swabs themselves were the source of contamination. Almost everyone has staph in their nose, and most everyone who works in a hospital has MRSA. It only gets out of control when the immune system is compromised.