MyClyns First Response Personal Protection Spray

The only thing I was commenting on was that just calling the outer membrane a lipid bilayer is rather ambiguous.
 
JPINFV said:
The funny thing about MRSA is that there's a decent chance that you're already colonized. Additionally, what, exactly, are you thinking they're going to do if you're "exposed?" Here, take some Vanco just in case?
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Yes, I'm well aware that I'm probably already colonized with MRSA. This does not mean that if someone coughs, spits, or vomits directly on me, or if for any reason any bodily fluid comes into contact with me, that I'm going to say, "I'm probably already colonized by MRSA, therefore I'm not going to worry about whatever Bad Stuff may or may not be present in this particular body fluid."

My department has an SOP regarding what to do if I think I may have been exposed to something. This includes reporting the potential exposure and getting myself to a hospital for diagnosis, and if necessary, treatment. I assume that the hospital will do some testing on me. But at the time when such an event occurs that causes me to activate this SOP in the first place, I'd like the added precaution of enhancing my chances for not becoming infected by the Bad Stuff. It seems to me that this product does just that. In the end, it may very well turn out that although I was exposed, I wasn't infected. I feel it's better to be safe than sorry, though.

If I did actually become infected, though, by the time the infection is definitively diagnosed, it may be too late to avoid some kind of unpleasant prolonged medical treatment. I don't know. If there's something I can do at the time of exposure to even just potentially prevent that, I'd really like to do that, especially when it's not particularly expensive or inconvenient to do so.
 
WolfmanHarris said:
I'd hope you'd use it so infrequently that it would just be a hassle to carry. But no, I don't think the glass that it's actually stored in would handle the rigors of a pocket long term. I've placed it in the side pocket of my gear bag with my Vic's vapor rub, bottle of tylenol, extra hand sanitizer and non-drowsy cold meds The bag doesn't get jostled too much, just into and out of the truck at shift change and into my trunk. That's all it took to break the first one.
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I carry mine on me and haven't had any issues with it breaking. Assuming this stuff works, having it in your duty bag is better than not having it at all, but my concern is getting caught without my duty bag immediately with me. If I am in an apartment and have an exposure, it is not practical to stop everything and have my partner run down to the ambulance to get it for me.
 
BEorP said:
I carry mine on me and haven't had any issues with it breaking. Assuming this stuff works, having it in your duty bag is better than not having it at all, but my concern is getting caught without my duty bag immediately with me. If I am in an apartment and have an exposure, it is not practical to stop everything and have my partner run down to the ambulance to get it for me.
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Good point. We don't have a lot of high density housing in my district, but still an issue.
 
Last time I got spit on, it was during the arrest of a Hep-C, HIV positive assault suspect. After dealing with the med surveillance folks and hospital staff weekly for months, I've come to the conclusion it'd just be easier to boil my head post-exposure in the future.

ETA- necropost, sorry.
 
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