People who don't look before flushing (#2)

[Emergent]

I had a patient come in the other day with abdominal symptoms. I was asking the usual questions, including what did his BM look like.

I'm surprised how many people don't look before flushing! Did something go wrong in toilet training? Did their parent or guardian instill a shame or revulsion to poop?

And what does Sigmund Freud have to say about this subject?

Sincerely Curious,

Emergent

[Farawyn]

So.....

Now I really want to know...

Does Trump look???

He poops?

I thought he was FULL of poop.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Oh, for pete's sake; EVERYONE looks at their poop. You don't have to have a reason, either; just human curiosity.

Of course, as nurses we are trained to give the stuff a quick ( or closer) look so we can describe it, if necessary, in charting.

It's an automatic thing: your one look registers size-shape-color-amount, any particular thing that stands out about it. Doesn't take but a few seconds of time.

Let's face it, nurses seem to focus on poop to a larger degree than the general population!

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Let's face it, nurses seem to focus on poop to a larger degree than the general population!

Well, except for all those little old men and women who start to freak out if they haven't had a BM for the day. Or is that just in my area? I swear, where I live is completely bowel-obsessed, health care professional or not.

[Nurse Leigh]

I seem to remember good ole Dr. Oz encouraging people to give it a look before flushing. Perhaps the last bit of sage advice he gave?

[CamillusRN, BSN]

I worked with a nurse that would snap chat her poop to another nurse. Not sure what that was about ...

[Farawyn]

I worked with a nurse that would snap chat her poop to another nurse. Not sure what that was about ...

Just talkin' ****

[Postpartum RN]

Lol I always give my husband a hard time for not looking. Sometimes when he's I'll or his stomach hurts I ask him about his stool and he says "huh?? I don't look I don't know!" And then I tell him to look next time and tell me, and he says ew I'm not gonna look.

I do always look, always have and always will. Guess I was meant to be a nurse :)

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Well, except for all those little old men and women who start to freak out if they haven't had a BM for the day. Or is that just in my area? I swear, where I live is completely bowel-obsessed, health care professional or not.

I absolutely retract my previous statement , because you are so totally right , I am ashamed to admit that I never even gave that whole segment of the population one single thought when I said what I said! GADS!

[Tenebrae, BSN, RN]

I worked with a nurse that would snap chat her poop to another nurse. Not sure what that was about ...

Funny story.

A few years before I started my nursing training I was working in community mental health. As apart of the job we had to bring each client in for an assessment every six months. This particular day I bought in Jane (name and identifying details changed to protect patient privacy). Jane took clozapine which among other things can cause massive constipation. So, when we got to the office Jane desperately needed to use the loo and the only free one was just outside the CEOs door.

Jane approached me in massive embarrassment about 15 minutes later to let me know she couldn't flush the loo. After i reassured Jane that it was no trouble and got her safely into her assessment I went to have a look and she had passed the most ginormous motion that wouldn't flush no matter how much I flushed.

I learnt that day if one needs to use the toilet brush to make a bowel motion go down the loo, its best not to look at what one is doing.

[annie.rn]

How else do you take a picture to send to your friends?

My sister's name begins with an L. One time after a rather interestingly shaped BM, her boyfriend brought her into the BR and showed it to her, saying "Look! I love you so much I pooped an 'L' for you!"

[Farawyn]

My sister's name begins with an L. One time after a rather interestingly shaped BM, her boyfriend brought her into the BR and showed it to her, saying "Look! I love you so much I pooped an 'L' for you!"

Thank God her name doesn't start with a W!

[Farawyn]

My SIL and my Bro both clogged my bowl on Christmas Eve.

Just a fun holiday tidbit for the poop thread.

No, I didn't look, just handed in the plunger.

Family.