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Ha, I've been through this and from what a dermatologist told me the only way to identify a lesion is to biopsy it and there is no guarantee that it is non-contagious unless it's gone. Too many of these skin conditions present in a similar way. I've seen kids get mis-diagnosed by dermatologists, as well as general practitioners taking a casual 'let's treat it as X". Now if doctors are having trouble, should we trust anyone to make a decision?
 
This weekend I had one kid with lesions that were visible and were documented on the correct form with a release date for returning to participate. There was long discussion by the refs and they almost didn't take the form. As is says right on the form, the intent is to "remove the referee from making a medical decision".
 
Something else to think about:
3 mats, 100+ wrestlers, wrestling for 4-6 hours, public restrooms with wrestlers in their shoes in/out (ever look at the floor under a urinal?)

Ha, I've been through this and from what a dermatologist told me the only way to identify a lesion is to biopsy it and there is no guarantee that it is non-contagious unless it's gone. Too many of these skin conditions present in a similar way. I've seen kids get mis-diagnosed by dermatologists, as well as general practitioners taking a casual 'let's treat it as X". Now if doctors are having trouble, should we trust anyone to make a decision?
 
This weekend I had one kid with lesions that were visible and were documented on the correct form with a release date for returning to participate. There was long discussion by the refs and they almost didn't take the form. As is says right on the form, the intent is to "remove the referee from making a medical decision".
 
Something else to think about:
3 mats, 100+ wrestlers, wrestling for 4-6 hours, public restrooms with wrestlers in their shoes in/out (ever look at the floor under a urinal?)

Ha, I've been through this and from what a dermatologist told me the only way to identify a lesion is to biopsy it and there is no guarantee that it is non-contagious unless it's gone. Too many of these skin conditions present in a similar way. I've seen kids get mis-diagnosed by dermatologists, as well as general practitioners taking a casual 'let's treat it as X". Now if doctors are having trouble, should we trust anyone to make a decision?
 
This weekend I had one kid with lesions that were visible and were documented on the correct form with a release date for returning to participate. There was long discussion by the refs and they almost didn't take the form. As is says right on the form, the intent is to "remove the referee from making a medical decision".
 
Something else to think about:
3 mats, 100+ wrestlers, wrestling for 4-6 hours, public restrooms with wrestlers in their shoes in/out (ever look at the floor under a urinal?)

Ha, I've been through this and from what a dermatologist told me the only way to identify a lesion is to biopsy it and there is no guarantee that it is non-contagious unless it's gone. Too many of these skin conditions present in a similar way. I've seen kids get mis-diagnosed by dermatologists, as well as general practitioners taking a casual 'let's treat it as X". Now if doctors are having trouble, should we trust anyone to make a decision?
 
This weekend I had one kid with lesions that were visible and were documented on the correct form with a release date for returning to participate. There was long discussion by the refs and they almost didn't take the form. As is says right on the form, the intent is to "remove the referee from making a medical decision".
 
Something else to think about:
3 mats, 100+ wrestlers, wrestling for 4-6 hours, public restrooms with wrestlers in their shoes in/out (ever look at the floor under a urinal?)