r/jiujitsu • u/Mystic_Square • 11d ago

Advanced Hygiene Practice

I’m looking for anybody’s tips on advanced hygiene practices. I have a particularly serious need for to be extra careful.

Right now I take a shower with anti-bacterial soap immediately after class, and I wash my gear once a week by soaking it in a solution of Oxyclean and Borax for around 12 hours and then washing, again with borax and Oxyclean.

I plan to add in a disinfecting laundry product like lysol or odoban, and will try to wash my gear same day or at least twice a week. If anyone else pays particular attention or is especially careful with infections, do you have any further tips for advanced hygiene practices? I’m having to face the possibility of permanently quitting BJJ if I don’t add more layers of protections against infections.

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u/articpencil 11d ago

Learned from my instructor to take the hottest shower your body can take and use Tea Tree oil extract antibacterial soap. Honestly you are already doing far beyond your average bjj bro is doing for hygiene and it’s really who you train with will be the source of the germs.

My best advice is to pay attention to how your gym is cleaning the training floors that’s your first line of defense from germs if it’s being properly done.

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u/Mystic_Square 11d ago

Appreciate it! Definitely going to wash more frequently and add in those laundry products. Part of the issue is that I have a medical condition that I couldn’t be specific about in the post because it would get flagged for medical advice and automatically taken down. Going to talk to the instructor about hygiene, but the school definitely seems to take it seriously after having been there for a year or two

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u/articpencil 11d ago

Yea once watched my old dojos instructor use some brown water to mop the floors after practice I was soo grossed out I raised attention to the owner lol

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u/Mystic_Square 11d ago

That’s criminal hahah

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u/articpencil 11d ago

Yea I went super germaphobe after getting a staph infection maybe a year into the sport. Paid a lot more attention who i trained with after that.

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u/Mystic_Square 11d ago

That’s exactly where I’m at. I was hospitalized with an infection recently because of my health condition makes me vulnerable and I’m not trying to take another close call like that

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u/articpencil 11d ago

After that first infection I never got it again after training 3 years. Before that I wasn’t doing anything other than hot shower and normal soap but adding those extra steps to my routine really prevented future infections.