What makes you want to vomit?

BrandonLPN, LPN · Dec 10, 2012

Any altered body functions related to cirrhosis or liver failure. Jaundice and ascities. That horrible brown, greasy urine that stains everything and just smells... septic or something. I've cared for many hospice pts who died of liver failure. Such a horrible way to go.

mercurysmom · Dec 10, 2012

I once worked in a chronic care hospital on a floor that took emergency respite admissions for DMR/DMH group homes. This guy had a trach, really thick secretions, and hadn't been using a trach mask/humidifier or HME. Well, it was the middle of summer, and the group home didn't have AC, and we're guessing they spent lots of time with the windows open, or maybe outside...long story short, this poor guy's trach was infested with maggots. I don't lose my lunch over even the chunkiest of trach secretions, but the sight of the wiggly maggots floating in the suction canister...

nkochrn, RN · Dec 10, 2012

There's not a whole lot that make me want to vomit, other than vomit. I was very close to vomiting one day when emptying a foley, the patient was on palliative care due to the end stages of cancer and her urine was very thick with a very foul odor. I had also just found out a couple weeks before that I was pregnant, which I'm sure made it a lot worse :)

ItsANurseLife · Dec 10, 2012

Trach care with thick secretions is pretty gross to me, but after having one pt on our floor for several months that required so much care I got used to it. The absolute, hands down, worst was when we had a pt with a gaping leg wound that had decay and dead tissue in it that had to be I&D'ed by a surgeon. The smell was like a rotting corpse and so strong that engineering had to come up to the room and make a special venting system to the outdoors. i felt so sad for the patient because she couldn't get away from it. I can handle most anything else and other wounds.

Sun0408, ASN, RN · Dec 10, 2012

I haven't found anything nursing related but the hospital food is bad enough to make me want to vomit :)

PediLove2147, BSN, RN · Dec 10, 2012

Vomit makes me want to vomit. I start to gag every time, especially if it has food in it.

I got used to secretions when I did home care, the kid I took care of needed frequent suctioning and I was hit more than once.

brillohead, ADN, RN · Dec 10, 2012

I'm cracking up that the ad in this thread is:

Throat Mucus Naturally Reduce Phlegm, Mucus & Throat Congestion. Guaranteed! www.NativeRemedies.com

Wonder if that would work for the trach patients we're all talking about? LOL

BrandonLPN, LPN · Dec 10, 2012

The ad that pops up at the top for me is for some sort of sheet of paper to put between your skin folds in your belly to avoid skin-on-skin irritation. Not a vomit-inducing ad, but disturbing enough in it's own way....

MJB2010 · Dec 10, 2012

GI bleed smell makes me gag. Oh and when I was pregnant EVERYTHING made me throw up. I mean everything. The food trays, the vomit, the puke, the smell of blood. Smell of soap, perfume, food, and anything else with an odor.

lovinlife11 · Dec 11, 2012

The smell of hospital food trays. Particularly lunch and dinner trays. Also, inserting ng tubes, creeps me out!

SwansonRN · Dec 11, 2012

The smell from ileostomies. BUT the worst smell I have ever smelt was something I experienced back when I was a student. I am having trouble describing it (not a surgical nurse at all). It was an open stomach, with a raised transparent dressing covering it. The patient was still eating and drinking a little so when the nurse opened it to clean and change the dressing OH MY GOSH. It was UNHOLY. I haven't seen anything like it since in my nice little medical bubble. I would probably go as far to say that a lot of surgeries would make me squeamish. Anything other than the bronchs/trach insertions/central lines/EGDs, TEEs that I see at the bedside are a noooooooo thank you.

Caffeine_IV · Dec 11, 2012

Sputum/hocking

Smell of gi bleed

Funky lady partss