Stinky Butts!!

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O.K. I'm venting here. I am disgusted by people that do not

know how to properly clean thier behinds after a BM!:( :( I am

not talking about people with special needs or handicaps.

I do not understand why someone would go to a doctors office

or hospital and smell like "poop" What is up with that? Or is it

something I am making a big deal over?:confused: Anyway, I

can handle odors from illness or wounds. But, this bugs me!!:(

Thanks for listening!! Hugs to all! :D

Specializes in NICU.
Originally posted by LaVorneRN

It's SO weird but reading this.....I suddenly can't get a funky foot smell from my nose! Everytime I inhale...there it is!!! You ever have a pt. so funky you go home and the smell is lingering in the lining of your nostrils? You have to light an incense and let the smoke fill your nose! Okay, I've never done that BUT I HAVE wafted the aroma from a freshly lit blue"candle scents by glade" into my nostrils

for 5-10 minutes. Depending of the strength of the funk.

Have you tried irrigating your nose when that happens? You can get an olive tip nozzle for a water pik, and use salt water. That'll clean out your sinuses!

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Specializes in OB/GYN.

Good night!!!!!!!!!!! Oh the joys I have to look forward to!!! Luckily I'm not afraid to get my hands (or should I say "gloves"!!!) dirty! :chuckle

Congrats to me, by the way.......... have just been accepted into the Nursing Program!! I start in August! Looking forward to being able to glean wisdom from all you pros out there! :)

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Specializes in Gerontology, Med surg, Home Health.

I thought this topic was about stinky butts....cigarette butts. My facility allows employees to smoke outside. They come back in reeking of cigarette smoke. Wish they would either make 'em shower before coming in or outlaw smoking all together.::imbar

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Specializes in ICU.

Aussiea are weird - we know this because the rest of the world tells us so. The cultural "norm" over here is to have at LEAST one bath a day preferrably two. This is not so in Europe. I had the misfortune to be standing on a European train in the middle of summer. Packed TIGHT!!!! To my left I was being assulted by the WORST halitosis that ever reeked out of a mouth to my right - well my nose was at the level of this guys armpit (he was holding a strap) and lets say HE wasn't an Aussie. Edged around only to be confronted by hair that UGH! - well she didn't have a nit problem - they would have all slid off on the grease.

I had to get OUT but nearly added my own contribution by tossing my cookies. YECH! I will never never ride on a crowded European train again.

SEE? You don't have to be a nurse!!!

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Heck, with all the patients on tube feeds in my unit, I feel like I'm on permenant..

POOP PATROL!

I've learned from this thread that poop patroll isn't so bad, because their bottoms get cleaned!!! LOL!

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Heck, with all the patients on tube feeds in my unit, I feel like I'm on permenant..

POOP PATROL!

I've learned from this thread that poop patroll isn't so bad, because their bottoms get cleaned!!! LOL!

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Unfortunately, these will always be job hazards of nursing. I keep a small container of Vick's Vapor Rub in my pocket. It helps immensly. There is a lady who is a frequent visitor to our clinic who is morbidly obese and with very poor hygiene. She often needs mini-cath UA's so I always wipe a little vicks under my nose before I go into the room to do her cath. She is always asking me, "Do you still have a cold?"

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I'd rather smell someone else's funk than Vicks. I'm sorry. :-(

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l get a little paranoid in that area, if l have to go to the docs and he has to poke around my butt, l shower just before l leave, then went l get there l rush to the toilet and clean the area again.

It maybe overkill but l want to be sure l'm clean.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, free clinic.
Originally posted by 3rdShiftGuy

Mark, our family is cursed with stinky feet. Dear man gags when I take off my shoes at the end of the day. Powders, creams, nothing helps. Stay away from me.

Ask if they eat cheese. Dairy products make for the stinkyest people I know. :nurse:

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Yeah, I've cleaned some stinky butts but I think for some patients it can be psychological. I've had an older patient who seemed perfectly A & O play with his poop and get it all over the place right after having a bath. The nurses on the floor would get so frustrated; but what can we do? It's all apart of our job. I guess just grin and bear it!!

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I am gifted with a very poor sense of smell !

I think the thing that grosses me out the most are long sharp toe nails (yuk)

Ever done pull/push with a laboring mom and been scratched by a nasty toenail? ik,

and if they are stinky its even worse,

some peri areas have a strong oder but thats not too bad, what really bothers me is when patients are so obese you cant find the opening to do a vag exam. please don't take offense I come from a family of big people myself but if it takes 4 ppl to do you vag exam ( two to hold the legs off the edge of the bed , one to hold apart the roles of your thighs and another to attempt the vag exam) you have a problem. and just imagine how much stuff is stuck in those rolls =(

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