Originally Posted by M Richardson

I read a study done at one of the east coast wrestling schools (can't remember which school) that used Selsun Blue. They washed the effected area with the shampoo prior to applying anti-fungal medication. Using the shampoo greatly aided in clearing up the infection shortening the time frame for healing considerably. I don't recall them using it as a prophylactic measure. It is VERY drying. I would be concerned about drying the skin and causing small fissures - which then act as places for the fungus to get started. Any good soap should be sufficient for body hygene.

Schlottke - how did I forget towels?

We generally all used it when there was a high risk of infection (ie a teammate with ringworm) and used regular shampoo or soap the rest of the time.

Anybody who is interested can email me at defensesoap@msn.com and I will send back a skin infection guide, a paper on prevention and a paper explaining your skin flora. There is a lot to learn about fighting skin infections. The better we educate ourselves and our wrestlers the better chance we have of avoiding these infections. I will not keep any email addresses in response to this post. Once I send you the requested information I will delete your email address.

Guy

I found a product called DefenseSoap on the internet that claims to have anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal properties. Ity also says it it is at effective defense against MRSA, Ringworm, Impetigo, Staph, and Herpes and all this without the chemical triclosan.

My boys use it and they are disease free after 3 years of wrestling. We had one case of ringworm and a mysterious rash about 6 months before finding and starting to use DefenseSoap. Nothing else since then.

Gentlemen, ringworm is a fungus and fungus tends to multiply in dark humid environment, similar to the way mushrooms grow. I am a junior high coach in Miami, and the High school that I feed into had an outbreak of ringworms. Even though they cleaned their mats thoroughly, I strongly advised them to clean their mats BEFORE practice instead of after. Cleaning the mats after practice and then rolling them up (as is usually done), you are trapping water particles in a dark ambience, therefore creating the perfect environment for the fungus to grow. The important thing to keep in mind here is that whether you wash the mats before or after practice, the mat needs to dry before they are rolled up.


Hope this helps,
Coach Serralta

Selsen Blue will kill the fungus (tinea) that causes ringworm but it will not protect you from the abundance of bacterial and viral infections out there. That is why at Defense we created a soap who's active ingredients have been proven effective against all three types of infections.