Arrrgghhh, get the smell off!! - page 2

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   Sep 14, '12

   Thankfully I have lost a lot of my sense of smell too...
2. 
   Sep 15, '12

   Bodily fluid smells don't bother me, but holy hell...one whiff of ensure going down a peg tube just makes me gag.
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   Sep 15, '12

   When I was a new PCNA, I had a patient with an ileostomy (with a lot of output!) and on top of it, a GI bleed. It smelled HORRIBLE...everyone knew when their ileostomy bag was emptied and the smell would go all the way down to the other side of the unit. Holding my breath didn't help because I can't hold my breath for that long...and if I tried breathing through my mouth, I would taste it! That smell lingered on me for the entire day.
4. 
   Sep 15, '12

   Anyone ever smelt burnt skin? its stays with you for days no matter what you do. I dont know how much of this is real or just the psychology of the thought, fooling ourselves into thinking the smell is still there?
5. 
   Sep 15, '12

   Ever in the OR for a liposuction? The smell of burning fat is terrible, I would start gagging when I couldn't stand the smell anymore.
6. 
   Sep 15, '12

   Quote from turnforthenurseRN

   When I was a new PCNA, I had a patient with an ileostomy (with a lot of output!) and on top of it, a GI bleed. It smelled HORRIBLE...everyone knew when their ileostomy bag was emptied and the smell would go all the way down to the other side of the unit. Holding my breath didn't help because I can't hold my breath for that long...and if I tried breathing through my mouth, I would taste it! That smell lingered on me for the entire day.

   My mom had one and I can remember having to be her helper when I little ,I never could get over that smell . Once when my mom was in the hospital she called my dad crying because no one on the floor would empty her bag because of the smell by the time we got there her bag had pooped and was allover the place I could smell it getting of the elverter I turned to my dad and said on @@@ it poped .
   
   Ps skin yeast has to be the worst I ever smelled I can remember wiping it off her and wanting to vomit and the smell dose not wash out .
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   Sep 15, '12

   
8. 
   Sep 16, '12

   The stench of cancerous ulcers as they erupt out of the mouth during CPR. I wasn't able to clean our ambulance it was so bad.
9. 
   Sep 16, '12

   Food vomit. I can handle a SBO where the vomit smell like BM, etc. But if it smells like food I will gag. Wounds don't bother me, Cdiff doesn't phase me. Ostomys are ok. Will NEVER ear Ceaser dressing as long as I live.
10. 
    Sep 17, '12

    Quote from whichone'spink

    I have allergies so I'm congested most of the time. The smells don't hit me as hard, thankfully.

    Lucky you!
11. 
    Sep 20, '12

    Quote from Trekfan

    My mom had one and I can remember having to be her helper when I little ,I never could get over that smell . Once when my mom was in the hospital she called my dad crying because no one on the floor would empty her bag because of the smell by the time we got there her bag had pooped and was allover the place I could smell it getting of the elverter I turned to my dad and said on @@@ it poped .

    That's horrible, I'm sorry that happened to your mom! I would never refuse to empty an ileostomy because of a smell. Same goes with entering a patient's room or helping to clean them up because of a smell.
12. 
    Sep 23, '12

    Quote from brian

    Extreme measures are sometimes warranted.
    
    When was the last time you felt the need to 'cleanse' yourself?
    
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13. 
    Sep 23, '12

    As a matter of fact sphinx, that is exactly what is happening! My husband is a firefighter and after a fire, he has a smoke smell in his nose for hours, sometimes days. Washing with saline sometimes works, others not so much. I used to think it was related to him INHALING the smoke, but he assured me he did not inhale : > }

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