What grosses YOU out?

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I don't know if this has been posted before, but what grosses you out as a nurse?

For me it's blood clots. Especially from a delivery with a large EBL. The blood sits in the placenta pan and congeals. Bleh. Shudder.

Specializes in Emergency Department.

Dirty mouth with the tongue fuzz and white/yellow/green/brown disgustingness on every oral surface. However suctioning and normal phlegm does not bother me.

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Specializes in Cardiology.

Actually, the fatty pouch of skin is a panniculus, and it can be found in places other than the abdomen. I recently had a patient who was post-op B/L thigh panniculectomy- ouch! She was s/p gastric banding and her ability to move about freely was hampered by the fat on her thighs.

The things that gross me out the very most:

1) Hands down, sputum/snot/mucus is at the top of my list. I've worked in a lab for ten years and that is the one and only specimen I don't care to be around, ever.

2) Doing oral care on people who really, really need it- can't stand the smell and have to hold my breath.

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Specializes in Covering ill calls house wide.

Gangrene... for some reason we are getting a lot more gangrene in... I think one of our surgeons is taking on more amputation cases. Either that or we are a pirate hospital in the 1700's and nobody told me.

The smell.... oh god, it stinks up the whole floor. And when the skin pops or falls off.... bleh.

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banana-based osteorized feeding. :|

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may be a repeat but flaky feet, one time I was changing this mans socks and his loose skin flakes flew in my face and I happened to be breathing in at the same time, so I had feet flakes in my mouth YUCK!

And when people have dry mouth and they get the white coating on the side of their mouths (usually see with psych meds) they make a smacking sound when talking and I want to barf

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