I can't smell c-diff

I can't smell it either but of course I can't smell anything at all which is both a blessing and a curse.

Maybe you don't notice the smell because you are expecting it to be this super offensive odor. C-diff is not the most offensive smell, kind of this weird sweet smell.

I never smelled it either. Maybe I just didn't notice but coworkers would get grossed out. Haven't worked with a c diff patient in a while but I really thought it was just me.

I've never been able to smell the difference between cdiff feces and regular feces, either.

I can't smell it either. I have horrible allergies so I always assumed it was that. We had a resident with comfort measures only who had it and I smelled absolutely nothing, so cleanup duties fell to me!

Ahhhhhh I'm so glad I'm not crazy!!!! Thank you for choosing to respond to this thread! 😂

Maybe it is that I'm expecting something horrific but I really don't smell anything different with cdiff.

If any of you doctorates out there are looking for some research, let's look at the genetics of this beautiful gift. lol

Maybe you don't notice the smell because you are expecting it to be this super offensive odor. C-diff is not the most offensive smell, kind of this weird sweet smell.

Possibly.

I've been known to be the "poop whisperer"; and have done it all; bowel disimpactions, especially with SCI patients, and have to remove c-diff poop to many different people's from infants to older adults whose poop that smell worse than c-diff. *shrugs*

Some people have sensitive noses; while others can clean up Lower GI Bleed poop and still eat cookies while the remnant smell is in the air-true story.--->

Me either. Been a nurse 5 years. Had tons of CDIFF patients. I think people just imagine what they want.

I can't smell the difference either ....

C-diff and pseudomonas have distinctive odors to me. But I think that is because of familiarity; a long time ago, I knew rotavirus by the smell as soon as I walked in the room. I doubt I would recognize it now.

C-diff isn't an immediately overwhelming smell, like a GI bleed. To me, it is just a whiff that is different, along with the basic odor.

C-diff with a side order of flagyl odor is quite distinct.

I think I just found a way to get rich: invent some scratch and sniff stickers for nurses and students to use as reference. C.Diff, pseudamonas, needs-oral-care-STAT, ampicillin-urine, and many others.