Holiday Wrestling Alert

Risk

• The highest risk time period for wrestling is after the holiday break.
• College wrestlers will use their high school facility for interim workouts.
• Most high schools do a very good job of keeping the mats clean for their workouts, but these could be unsupervised workouts where the mats and guest wrestlers may not be using best practices in skin/surface/equipment infection prevention. Typically, your best the high school wrestlers will use this opportunity to get in additional training.
• This holiday also presents the risk of the influenza virus, which could impact your wrester’s ability to train and compete.

Action

• Provide wrestlers with a 4 oz bottle of Hibiclens for the holiday. Make sure they wash face and arms BEFORE and AFTER wrestling.
• To reduce the risk of bring back the flu virus, have wrestlers wash hands regularly throughout the day while at home.
• If providing product is not an option, attached are coupons for Hibiclens (use with water) and Hibistat (use without water).
• Hibiclens and Hibistat wipes are effective against all the germs listed above, plus provide up to 6 hours of continuous killing action to reduce the risk of contamination if used before practice or competition.
• These products can be found in the first aid section at retail:

  Hibiclens

  • Walgreens
  • CVS
  • Rite Aid
  • Target
  • Walmart
  • Super Value
  • Savon
  • Osco
  • Albertsons
  • Stop & Shop

  Hibistat

  • CVS
  • Rite Aid
  • Stop & Shop

Click here for a printable coupon