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10 Funky Hospital Smells
Steve Berman | NursingLink
1. Bowel movements
This one needs no explanation. However, some patients’ BMs are worse than others (the bloody ones, especially – ew!). Nothing’s worse than having to clean it up when it gets all over the place — on the patient, on the bed, on the floor, on your clothes … ugh! These “”http://nursinglink.monster.com/benefits/articles/154-dealing-with-a-code-brown">code brown" situations are never the same, the gross factor depending on what the patient originally ate.
2. Burning hair/flesh
While burn wounds are more traumatic to the patient who gets burned (obviously), the telltale smell that comes with burnt hair and/or flesh is something that sticks with anyone who smells it, including nurses.
nicolae
11 months ago
2 comments
In the hospital you can find many strange smells. You`ll think it`s funny but I like how it smells in the dentists medical cabinets. I take care of my teeth health and I searched a lot for dentists New Hampshire cabinets until I found one good enough.
reggis
over 1 year ago
28 comments
I just hate hospital smells and the garbage smell, in fact I don't know which one I hate the most. Thank God that our local rubbish removal NJ service is functioning properly and we don't have to deal with old garbage disposed improperly. As for the hospital smells, they always give me shivers, they make hospitals even more unpleasant.
rajkumarjonnala
over 1 year ago
100 comments
Good One... dental implants
afterwop
almost 2 years ago
58 comments
I remember the day when I took in the air of a hospital as a medical student for the first time, it turned my stomach. It was routine to admit medical students in the ICU for all purposes, as the wards were too grubby. Within a minute of entering the ICU I felt sick. Smells have a way of bringing back memories associated with them in an extremely vivid fashion. My mind got flooded with images of various times when my mother was hospitalized for Phentermine abuse. I felt so giddy, I had to step out and leave without visiting. Over the years I have got accustomed to ‘Hospital smells’ of all sorts. No issues there.
studentJoe
about 2 years ago
2 comments
obviously when this article reffers to morbid obesity its not the little chart in the doctors office obese, its the "i need a cattle scale to way myself" obese
kandice101010
about 2 years ago
2 comments
This little article seems a bit harsh.
shaunabphillips
about 2 years ago
6 comments
I am considered "morbidly obese" and I don't stink! :(