Best-smelling liquid meds!

Nurses General Nursing

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

Specializes in Med Surg, ER, OR.

Good: Peptobismol and Maalox (weird I know)

Bad: Mucomyst by far, C-diff poopie and tube feed poopie!

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I don't mind the smell, but Lact. is so gosh darn sticky!!

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Specializes in Licensed Practical Nurse.

Prosource and Questran smell good, :smackingfuhh, look at us, talking about the smell of drugs! sad, lol!

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Specializes in Licensed Practical Nurse.
You know...I can just see all you goofballs in the med room passing around drugs sniffing them.

*Man this is some good stuff*

And am I the only one that can smell a tube feeding days after I work?

YOur not alone, I still smell lots of stuff long after I leave work, very sad and disturbing!

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Specializes in Post Anesthesia.

Morphine- by far the best smell in the place! I wonder if that is where they got the idea for the perfume "Opium"?

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, ICU, clinic.

Mmm, chloral hydrate...is that even still used?

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Specializes in Neonatal ICU (Cardiothoracic).
Mmm, chloral hydrate...is that even still used?

You bet...... we use it all the time when we take our bigger non-vented kids down for an MRI....Doesn't always work so well...:D

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Specializes in ICU, Research, Corrections.
I love the smell of the stuff used to adhere steri-strips to the skin. Is it "tincture of benzoin"...I don't remember.

Ah benzoine, is one of my favorites. I use a lot of it to keep pressure tape on after pulling cardiac sheaths.

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, ICU, clinic.

Totally off topic, but Hoozdo, I love your Haiku!! :nuke:

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I am on keflex right now and since I can not swallow pills I am on the liquid.....I always smell it before taking it.

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Specializes in LTC, home health, critical care, pulmonary nursing.

Lactulose smells like a buttered popcorn Jelly Belly! I've never had it, but judging by the looks on my residents' faces when they get it, I doubt it tastes like one. I've never smelled liquid Keflex, but if you open the capsule and mix it with yogurt...smells like old milk in a dumpster.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, ICU.

I'd have to agree that amoxicillin smells the best. Timentin IV outright stinks, but morphine syrup is the prettiest shade of blue at the hospital where I work.

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