Best-smelling liquid meds!

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Is it just me, or does anyone else think Lactulose smells really good? Just wondering....;)

Specializes in Emergency, Nursing Management, Auditing.

Best are probably liquid augmentin, amoxicillin, children's motrin, and dimetapp...

Worst for me are Mucomyst (rotten eggs) and regular insulin (gross indescribable smell)... YUCK!!

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Specializes in Burnout & Resiliency Coaching for Nurses.

Dilantin or Megace, a toss up...worst is jevity ick!

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Specializes in HH, LTC.

I love the smell of lactulose too!! I think it smells like butterscotch and black licorice mixed together. I tried to drink some once and it was so thick i could hardly even swallow it!

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Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.

I like the smell of Nystatin, tastes yucky, though. Insulin smells liks a type of off-brand rubbing alcohol to me, but I like the smell of alcohol, too. Maybe I'm weird.

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Specializes in Day Surgery, Agency, Cath Lab, LTC/Psych.

I've always liked the smell of lactulose--it smells warm and yummy. Too bad the results are warm and yucky.:barf02:

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Steph...sorry to let you down! I only *get* to smell it straight from the stock bottles..guess it loses it's potency once it's dispensed...'cause the stuff straight from the stock bottle ain't pretty...smells like nasty feet!

Ditto the insulin...had a pharmacist drop a vial on Lantus on the floor and it broke...pharmacy reeked like some kind of rubbery alcohol for 3 days.

IV penicillin (if spilled) is also a bad one...like astringent fish! And that smell will stay with ya all day. (Like C-dif or an old man's breath in the morning...the two smells that I always seem to have "stuck" in my nose, even after I've gone home :barf01:)

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Aldex dm smells great! (grape flavor)

Worst smell? Cleocin po by far - smells like bug spray. Procalamine smells horrible - had an not so brilliant pharmacy tech send us a glass bottle thru our pneumatic tube chute. The bottle broke when it landed, surprise! That was over a year ago and our chute still smells - reminds me of stale urine!

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Specializes in psychiatry,geropsych,LTC/SNF, hospice.

Gotta go with dilantin--orange creamsicles!

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lasix, like rasberries or chambord

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Specializes in Med/Surg; Psych; Tele.
Lactulose is.. not what I would smell all day if I could. But that's just me.

The smell of Maalox is what I consider pleasant. :-)

Mucomyst is probably the worst. Blech.

I was waiting for someone to say that one...Mucomyst - disgusting - like rotting eggs!

Also, if I remember correctly, Carafate smells like bubblegum.

Nystatin doesn't smell too bad either.

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We have liquid dilantin that smells just like oranges.

Like we don't have enough problem with addicts, good idea drug company

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Specializes in Onco, palliative care, PCU, HH, hospice.

I think IV Unasyn has a nice fruity smell, I also love the smell of our Nystatin "Magic Mouthwash" smells quite intriguing. I agree that Grape flavored Dimetapp is very tasty, and Mucomyst is absolutely the most repulsive drug I've ever smelled:barf01:

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